“I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.”

— Barrett Brown

Vanity Fair, "Why the Hacks Hate Michael Hastings" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings, 23 July 2010.

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