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Charlie Peters on Made-to-Order Intel
Suspicions that most of us have had about the CIA under George W. Bush are confirmed by a recent study by the Brookings Institution. It finds that analysts at the CIA were rewarded for having their...
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CIA Terror Officials Now Criminals In Italy
The New York Times’ Rachel Donadio reports on the decision of an Italian judge, Oscar Magi, to convict 23 Americans, including a CIA base chief, Robert Seldon Lady, in the rendition of Abu Omar. Omar...
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Blackwater Doesn’t Need Bribes To Operate In Afghanistan
Good news! The New York Times’ James Risen and Mark Mazetti report: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to...
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Blackwater, the Afghanistan War, and the Revolving Door
The New York Times’ James Risen and Mark Mazetti broke the news last night that the company formerly known as Blackwater actively participated in CIA raids against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan....
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Why Government Needs Strong Independent Reporting
A great example of the connection between solid reporting and improvements in government can be found in the Washington Post‘s initial reporting on the alleged effort by Umar Abdulmutallab to...
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Polar Bear Espionage
The New York Times’ William J. Broad has an interesting report about climate scientists utilizing CIA spy equipment to study climate change. The program was around during the Bill Clinton...
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The Answer Probably Isn’t A 17th Intelligence Agency
The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung does her usual thorough reporting in discerning if the post-Sept. 11 shake-up of the intelligence community is to blame for the attempted Christmas Day terrorist...
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Obama Getting Around To Forming Terrorist Detainee Interrogation Plan
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman report: The head of a new elite terrorism-interrogation program said Thursday that it will take several more months to establish teams that could...
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Accountability at CIA is same as accountability anywhere
It’s a tricky thing with the CIA — since everything it does is secret, every mistake it makes is supposed to be secret too. But secrecy and accountability are pretty bad partners, and a lack of...
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Juan Cole sues Obama admin for Bush admin snooping
Robert Snell of the Detroit News reports that blogger and Michigan professor Juan Cole has sued the CIA and FBI, demanding that the intelligence agencies turn over any documents that relate to him. As...
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