Obama Cia

The Golden Age of Special Operations

Andrew Bacevich | Posted 05.29.2012

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When it comes to military policy, the Obama administration's success in shutting down wars conducted in plain sight tells only half the story, and the lesser half at that.

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Data Mining You

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.03.2012

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In these last years, while so many Americans were foreclosed upon or had their homes go "underwater" and the construction industry went to hell, the intelligence housing bubble just continued to grow.

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Why No One Would Listen

Eyal Press | Posted 05.06.2012

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What's worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so?

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Steve Kappes, CIA Deputy Director, Helped Cover Up Detainee Death, Washingtonian Reports

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIA Deputy Director Steve Kappes helped cover up the death of a detainee at a secret interrogation facility in Afghanistan, according to a profile in ...

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Why Rendition?

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president should be challenged. His campaign words on torture are empty, rendered meaningless with his "new" policy on rendition.

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We Cannot Afford This

Charles S. Faddis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have no doubt that the Attorney General is acting in what he believes to be the country's best interest. I also have no doubt that launching this inquiry will have a catastrophic effect on the CIA.

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Feingold Writes Holder: Investigate Bush-Era CIA Policies

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senator Russ Feingold, who has played a leading private and public role in pushing for an investigation into possible illegalities under President Bus...

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Obama Thanks CIA During First Visit To Langley; Defends Release Of Torture Memos

AP | NATASHA METZLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday defended before his most skeptical audience his decision to release Bush-era memos outlining inter...

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Obama Weighs Airing CIA Tactics: Top Officials At Odds

Wall Street Journal | EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interro...

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Jim Woolsey Praises Panetta, Obama's Foreign Policy Team

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former CIA Director and John McCain adviser Jim Woolsey professes to being "impressed overall by the quality" of Barack Obama's national security team...

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Obama Puts Out The Panetta Fire

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama was forced into his first real rift with congressional Democrats on Monday when two influential Senators complained publicly about not ha...

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Obama Unlikely To Radically Overhaul Controversial Intelligence Policies

Wall Street Journal | SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an...

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