However, it is certainly true, as we have been talking about quite openly for weeks, if not months, and as Ben Rhodes, the Deputy National Security Advisor, briefed on extensively in New York at the United Nations, the issue of conventional weapons, including MANPADS, in Libya.

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It would be a strange, not to say incompetent, criminal conspiracy if traders were openly discussing it with government officials.

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Many people in the United States have openly and repeatedly called for the prosecution, if not execution, of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning for the crime of, respectively, receiving and leaking classified information.

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Ahead of the August 2009 Afghan elections, the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan, openly talked about the need to disempower the Afghan president, if not to replace him outright.

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