Cia

CIA Base Chief Killed In Afghan Attack: AP

AP | PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.31.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base an...

Fidel Castro, Behind the Ramparts (Part II of III)

Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books


Norberto Fuentes

In the whole of my experiences with or close to Fidel, this was the most pathetic. Here was a man who knew solitude was an impossibility, yet seemed happy to have the illusion of it.

Janet Napolitano Should Hire Google and eHarmony

Adam Hanft | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics


Adam Hanft

Nine years and billions of dollars after September 11th, we have a database that can't do something as basic as connect a denied visa and a CIA report on the same person.

The Keystone Cops Meet the Parents; And Let's Not Invade Yemen

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 12.29.2009 | World


Leon T. Hadar

So before airport security screening start to feel like your annual medical check-up and American troops head into Yemen, here are some common sense ideas aimed at preventing anti-American terrorism.

Yemen's Islamic Agony

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 12.29.2009 | World


Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Yemen's fate, like Somalia's or Pakistan's, will help determine the future struggle against terrorism. The U.S. cannot afford to ignore Yemen's plight.

Sorry, Secretary Napolitano, But the System Didn't Work

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

The U.S. government needs to rethink its national security apparatus and its intelligence-gathering mechanisms: We cannot protect America from terrorism using military force.

Blair vs. Panetta: White House Tries To Settle Feud Between Top Intelligence Officials

Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics


The White House this month issued a classified order to resolve mounting frictions between the nation's intelligence director and the CIA over issues ...

A New Year's Resolution for France- Put Albert Camus In The Pantheon

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 12.28.2009 | World


Eric Ehrmann

While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.

Avatar and Public Diplomacy

John Brown | Posted 12.29.2009 | World


John Brown

Watching it last Saturday morning, I reflected -- as a former foreign service officer involved in public diplomacy -- about paraplegic Marine Jake Sully's ventures into Pandora.

No Thanks to the State Department, the Last Remnant of the Vietnam War May Be About to End

Roger Warner | Posted 12.23.2009 | World


Roger Warner

A tentative deal between the Laotian government, anti-government guerrillas, and expatriated Lao refugees could finally bring an end to a little-known conflict that grew out of the Vietnam War.

Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prisons

AP | LIUDAS DAPKUS | Posted 12.22.2009 | World


VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they w...

US Forces Mounted Secret Pakistan Raids In Hunt For Al-Qaida Without Pakistan's Knowledge

The Guardian | Declan Walsh | Posted 12.22.2009 | World


American special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Wash...

CIA Working With Palestinian Security Agents Known For Torturing Hamas Supporters

guardian.co.uk | Ian Cobain | Posted 12.18.2009 | World


Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been w...

David Headley, Mumbai Terror Suspect, Was 'Rogue US Secret Agent'

Times London | Rhys Blakely | Posted 12.17.2009 | World


A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year's attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rog...

Obama's Nobel Lecture: Speaking Truth From Power?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.

Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books


Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

Slain Al-Qaeda Leader Posthumously Named Employee of the Month

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.12.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

In a new videotape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.

Left, Right & Center: Nobel Speech, Bank Bonuses, Health Care, Blackwater and the CIA

Huff Radio | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics


Huff Radio

Obama's muscular moralism? Irreconcilable concepts? A new direction? LRC weighs in on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

CIA's Blackwater Ties Run Deep, Private Firm Participated In Covert Raids

AP | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and A...

Najibullah Zazi Case: Arthur Folsom No Longer Representing Terror Defendant

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver


DENVER — A Denver lawyer thrust into the international spotlight while representing a Colorado man accused of plotting a terrorist attack is no ...

The Winds of War

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 12.07.2009 | World


Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Redoubling the effort in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater will only indirectly deny terrorists the kind of safe havens they need to plan another 9/11 scale attack.

C.I.A. Expanding Drone Attacks Inside Pakistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.04.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bol...

Anthropology Association Condemns Work with U.S. Counterinsurgency

Jeff Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | World


Jeff Stein

Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic organization said today.

The Failure of the Federalist, No. 10

Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


Shahid Buttar

Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?

Christmas Eavesdropping: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies

Keith Thomson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


Keith Thomson

The latest in finding out who's naughty and nice... ...