The one or two things you should know from this week's Harper's Weekly.
A U.S. surveillance drone crashed in Iran. Iranian military officials claimed to have brought down the plane by hacking into its control system, though an American analyst said the craft most likely crashed on its own, because "that's what drones do."
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In the second attack by a gunman at Virginia Tech in four years, Radford University student Ross Ashley shot and killed a police officer, then shot and killed himself. "I'm kind of surprised," said Ashley's former roommate. "I'm also not kind of surprised."
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You have to wonder sometimes if people generally say inappropriate things or that reporters work extremely long and hard until they find a quirky comment, and then run the story.
On the drone crash, it turns out that U.S. officials wanted the public to believe the analyst. They were so disparate to prove their own incompetency rather than Iranian cunning that they crashed another drone less than a week later. This time in the Seychelles. Point made…expensively.
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