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In an e-mail to Mr. Petraeus accompanying the final version of the talking points, Mr. Morell referred to the State Department's deep concerns about the references.
Press another button and it gives off a somewhat squawky version of the Talking Heads song, "Take Me to the River".
Mr. Morell, administration officials said, deleted a reference in the draft version of the talking points to C.I.A. warnings of extremist threats in Libya, which State Department officials objected to because they feared it would reflect badly on them.
Then it was the Justice Department's complaint against Standard & Poor's over toxic mortgage securities, which included an employee's subprime version of the Talking Heads song, "Burning Down the House".
He made the decision to intervene militarily in Libya without invoking the War Powers Act — and that, and not some phantom version of the talking points, is the purloined letter in this case.
Actually, as The Times reported this morning, the e-mails show that the deputy director of the C.I.A., Michael Morell, "deleted a reference in the draft version of the talking points to C.I.A. warnings of extremist threats in Libya".
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According to ABC News, 12 different versions of the talking points were produced.
During the 1980's, the Staple Singers tried dance music, and had dance-floor hits with versions of the Talking Heads' "Slippery People" and "Life During Wartime".
Initial versions of the talking points show that intelligence from the ground suggested there was knowledge of which extremists had taken part in the terror attack.
Though theatrical versions of some of the "Talking Heads" pieces have been produced in London and, thanks again to Mr. Engler, Los Angeles, this is their first professional outing on a Manhattan stage.
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