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>> we are looking for ways to get martin luther king who is considered a radical at the time and they wanted to discredit him in front of his followers. and one way of doing that was by finding out what kind of sexual activity he might have, and then using that to either blackmail him, export or basically just discredit him in front of his followers and that is what this document was. it basically said the same thi
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thing. the director of the nsa, general alexander and they looked for the postdebate coat personal vulnerability that viewing the material online and so forth a lot can be learned by people visiting sites. it's probably more fun than listening to the north koreans. [laughter] i was amazed that the language they used like nobody would ever see this document so let's use as vivid language of possible and they would exploit the vulnerabilities of the character and radical writers and they said we are not talking about criminals and.
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i agree when i saw the name there wasn't any division between because at least one of the names was a u.s. citizen or u.s. person and others were foreigners so there wasn't any division. we were only going after the foreigners.
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is if you the three elements of the package are the sense of exception maliki and you can get it from lots of different sources but it's a feeling that you are special and destined for
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special things. the second element is almost seemingly the opposite and that is insecurity to offset that exception maliki and that's a feeling that you are not quite good yet and the third element is impulsive controllers of discipline and the ability to persevere and exist temptation. >> individuals but grew up in america tend to predictably be second-generation to have a kind of interesting and creative description relationship between their coach or and american culture such that the second generation starts typically looking back at their parents and grandparents generation to say you know what we don't want to do it the way you told us. we are not interested in those jobs and instead they make their own decisions whether to be a standup comic or artist or something like that and yet what we found is aspirational he at
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least the same qualities can help them do that and achieve a very different kind of goal. "after words" with david editor of slate online magazine. this week amy chua and jed rubenfeld. they argue the most successful ethnic groups in america have all had at least one of three characteristics that constitutes the triple package superiority, insecurity and impulse control. they also say that despite the respective success of the groups
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all three have a dark side that should be avoided. this program is about one hour. >> host: what is the triple package? >> guest: first of three qualities or elements that in combination propel individuals and certain groups to disproportionate success defined in a certain way. and the three elements of the triple package are descendents of exception maliki. you can get it from lots of different sources but it's a feeling that you are special and destined for special things. the second element is almost seemingly the opposite, and that is insecurity to offset that exception maliki. and that is a feeling that you

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