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"The Libya Gamble" Two part series. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/libya-isis-hillary-clinton.html Excerpts: The Times interviewed more than 50 American, Libyan and European officials, including many of the principal actors. Virtually all agreed to comment on the record. They expressed regret, frustration and in some cases bewilderment about what went wrong and what might have been done differently. ... Now Libya, with a population smaller than that of Tennessee, poses an outsize security threat to the region and beyond, calling into question whether the intervention prevented a humanitarian catastrophe or merely helped create one of a different kind. ... Some senior intelligence officials had deep misgivings about what would happen if Colonel Qaddafi lost control. In recent years, the Libyan dictator had begun aiding the United States in its fight against Al Qaeda in North Africa. “He was a thug in a dangerous neighborhood,” said Michael T. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time. “But he was keeping order.” ... “I think at one point I said, ‘Can I finish the two wars I’m already in before you guys go looking for a third one?’” Mr. Gates recalled. Colonel Qaddafi, he said, “was not a threat to us anywhere. He was a threat to his own people, and that was about it.” ... President Obama ultimately took her side, according to the administration officials who described the debate. After he signed a secret document called a presidential finding, approving a covert operation, a list of approved weaponry was drawn up. The shipments arranged by the United States and other Western countries generally arrived through the port of Benghazi and airports in eastern Libya, a Libyan rebel commander said. “Humvees, counterbattery radar, TOW missiles was the highest end we talked about,” one State Department official recalled. “We were definitely giving them lethal assistance. We’d crossed that line.”

I know that officials swap regions for tournament games. Is there a way to find out which officials are doing particular games beforehand? Trying to prep for radio broadcasts this week!

KY legislature to vote on a rule change for HS sports that would make the game officials responsible for determining if an athlete has received a concussion and should be allowed to return to the game. I trust a good coaching staff/AD/trainer to make that decision that is best for the long term health of the student much more so than an official. I know our view of officials isn't very high on BGP but this seems crazy.