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America's Other Swine Flu

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Swine Flu, Cia, Cheney, Swine Flu Pandemic, Congress, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, C.I.A., Politics News

The same members of Congress who failed in their duty to provide checks and balances are in no rush to legally investigate their own passivity in the wiretapping program. This lack of accountability is an infectious disease.

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Michael Hayden: Congress Was Informed About Surveillance Program

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance Program, Cia Director, Michael Hayden, Cia, CIA Surveillance, Bush Surveillance Program, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance...

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The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence

Scott Atran | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, George Tenet, CIA Torture, Philip Mudd, John Yoo, Torture, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

A new government report on the Bush administration's surveillance of personal commmunications reveals a familiar pattern of intellectual deafness and moral abuse of the country.

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Friday Talking Points [85] -- Roll Up! See The Show!

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, White House, Capitol Hill, Burris, Dead Fish, Campaign, Charles Schumer, Sarah Palin, Howard Dean, Emanuel, Franco, Midotw, Single Payer, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Franco Is Still Dead, Health Care, Reid, HR Giger, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Public Option, Start Treaty, Democrat, Re-Election, Congress, Democrats, Barack Obama, Sanders, New York Senate, Schumer, Young Republicans, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Health, Alien, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Republicans, Signing Statement, Welcome Back My Friends, Senate, Healthcare, Central Intelligence Agency, President Obama, Cia, Dr Dean, Democratic, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Standwithdrdean, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Dean, Blagojevich, Co-Op, Nuclear Weapons, Insurance, Baucus, Needle Exchange, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Snl, Russia, Rahm, Karn Evil 9, Campaign Contributions, Reelection, Trigger, Bill Clinton, This Year, House, Brain Salad Surgery, Roland Burris, Bipartisan, No Excuses, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Nukes, Campaign Donations, Chris Weigant, Palin, Industry, Karn Evil, Max Baucus, Saturday Night Live, Strong Public Option, Giger, Elp, Politics News

"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends..." All week long, this line has been running through my head. It's from an Emerson, Lake, and...

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GOP Rep. Says He Would Support An Investigation Of Secret CIA Program

The Plumline | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Dems, Gop, Intelligence, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Silvestre Reyes, Jan Schakowsky, House of Representatives, Mac Thornberry, Cia Secret Program, Leon Panetta, Politics News

I'm a bit surprised this isn't getting more attention: Last night, A Republican member of Congress -- Rep Mac Thornberry -- said he would support an i...

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This Week In Cheating

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Congress, Cia, Goldman Sachs, TheStreet.Com, Lenny Dykstra, Jim Cramer, Aig, Sec, Cheating, Angelo Mozilo, Subprime, Uncle Sam, Comedy News

How else are they supposed to exploit people and make billions? Geesh. I suppose you think health care "reform" will change everything, too, right?

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Joe Scarborough, Pelosi Critic, Now Laments Unfair Criticism Of Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Joe Scarborough, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Spencer Ackerman, Leon Panetta, Media News

Scarborough's now lamenting that Nancy Pelosi, "a friend of mine from Congress" has "caught a lot of grief" for that criticism. The big takeaway? Starbucks apparently has a Rohypnol Frappuccino.

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CIA, Pelosi, Dems, Repubs, Media: All Guilty

Chip Berlet | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence Agency Abuses, Civil Liberties, Repression, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

Liberal denial gives silent permission to authoritarian aggression and violence by our government. The bogeyman has shifted from communism to terrorism, but the dynamics remain the same.

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Shirley and the CIA

Norman Horowitz | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: And Don’t Call Me Shirley!, Yes I Am Serious, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Home News

Where are all of the documentaries about the CIA on FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC?

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The CIA and Murdoch Will Get Away With It

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Tabloids, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Cia, Leon Panetta, Investigation, Celebrities, Media News

The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.

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Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, Pentagon, Robert McNamara, Cia, Vietnam, Politics News

Ford took McNamara to task on several points, but on none more severely than McNamara's complaint that "there were no Vietnam experts" to whom top policymakers could turn for advice.

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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Iran and the C.I.A

Tom Gabbay | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Ayatollah, Islamic Republic of Iran, Cia, President Obama, US-Iran Relations, Jimmy Carter, Tehran, Iran, Supreme Leader, Operation Ajax, Ayatollah Khomeini, Wolf Blitzer, World News

This revolution, if that's what it is, can only come from the Iranian people. The US must remain on the sidelines; a spectator to what could be a game changer in the Middle East and beyond.

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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CIA Report On Interrogation Delayed Again

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia Interrogation Report, Cia, CIA Interrogation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation p...

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Robert Ménard Slams Door, or Booted Out, of Doha Center for Media Freedom?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media

Depending on whose version one believes, Robert Ménard, ex-director of the Doha Center for Media Freedom, pushed the press freedom envelope a bit too far, until he was shoved out the door.

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The Ayatollah's Curse

Eric Margolis | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Cia, Iran Election, Barack Obama, World News

Almost every American president who has gotten involved in Iran has had his fingers burned. So the cautious President Obama is advised an excess of caution when dealing with Iran.

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Advocacy Groups Say Torture Memo Authors Should Be Disbarred

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Torture, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Inspector General, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the District of Columbia and New York bar associations to disbar three government attorney...

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The Gulf Can't Deal with Iran Until Iran Deals with Itself

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Cia, Iran Election, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Madeleine Albright, Mossadegh, Al Qaeda, United Arab Emirates, World News

The GCC is looking at an Iranian government that has lost a great deal of credibility, both locally and internationally, and has yet to figure out how to deal with itself.

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WaPo Covered For CIA In Iran-Contra Crack Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Drug Trade, Washington Post, Cia, Ryan Grim, Media Criticism, Media News

Over at The Root, you can read an excerpt of my colleague, Ryan Grim's book This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History Of Getting High In Ameri...

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Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Cia, World Bank, U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Imf, Barack Obama, Indigenous People, Quixote Center, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shah, World Trade Organization, Human Rights, Peru, Center for International Policy, President Bush, Republican Party, Amazon, Politics News

When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Despite Reform Pledges, Panetta Enables CIA's Bad Old Habits

Frank Naif | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Dni, Cia, National Security, Congressional Oversight, Obama National Security Team, Obama National Security, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

The Obama team portrayed Leon Panetta as a no-nonsense Beltway veteran who would 'fix' the CIA. Over the past few weeks, however, he has emerged as an obstacle to real reform and accountability at the CIA.

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