"This currency, as we manage it, is a wonderful machine. It performs its office when we issue it; it pays and clothes troops, and provides victuals and ammunition; and when we are obliged to issue a quantity excessive, it pays itself off by depreciation." Benjamin Franklin, 1779.
Obama Releases Another Gitmo Prisoner -- This Time it's a Bomb Expert
Obama Releases Another Gitmo Prisoner -- This Time it's a Bomb Expert: Sixteen prisoners have been released from Guantanamo Bay since the beginning of the year as part of President Obama's promised Gitmo cleansing. But like so many others before, there is something interesting about one of the last two released: he was an expert bomb maker for Al Qaeda.