McCarthy is the author of The Grand Jihad and Willful Blindness, both New York Times bestsellers.

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Yet, despite willful blindness and blistering attack, Freeman's warnings stand up to scrutiny.

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Madoff claimed banks and hedge funds who had dealings with his investment advisory firm showed a "willful blindness" toward his activities.

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Mr. Brennan, to the contrary, is the incarnation of willful blindness.

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Are we willing to face the consequences of willful blindness?

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However, the federal court of appeals based in New York rejected that contention and found YouTube might be liable under either a red flag knowledge theory or based on its willful blindness.

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One can safely assume that one reason for this willful blindness was that there are few jobs that pay as well as these mining jobs in this rural area of West Virginia.

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The judge also pushed the envelope by instructing jurors that they could find Lay and Skilling guilty for "willful blindness, " or closing their eyes to wrongdoing like the frauds perpetrated by former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow .

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Willful blindness or incompetence?

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Does it not speaks volumes about a population when a people are willing to gorge themselves on accoutrements (low borrowing rates) conferred in Euro membership yet demonstrate stark blindness, indeed willful disregard and resentment for attendant responsibilities (pay back the money) required to reap those benefits.

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