Michael R. Gordon is a national security correspondent for the New York Times. He is co-author of Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq and The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama.
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