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$bio: Richard Cummings served with the office of General Counsel of USAID Near East South Asia region, as the lawyer for the AID program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, having served on the Board of the AFIO-New England chapter.  He is the author of The Pied Piper-Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream (second ed., InPrint. Com 2000) and Proposition 14-A Secessionist Remedy.

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Richard Cummings served with the office of General Counsel of USAID Near East South Asia region, as the lawyer for the AID program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, having served on the Board of the AFIO-New England chapter. He is the author of The Pied Piper-Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream (second ed., InPrint. Com 2000) and Proposition 14-A Secessionist Remedy.