Roger Warner is a journalist, award-winning historian, and a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNuIUxG7aUk"documentary filmmaker. He is currently at work on a new nonfiction book, and is a member of an ad hoc group of experts advocating a new, constructive, U.S. government approach to resolving post-conflict issues left over from the Laos covert war.

Blog Entries by Roger Warner

The Underperformers: How Key U.S. Officials Have Shaped a Tribal Crisis

Posted May 5, 2009 | 08:07 PM (EST)


[Part 4 in a series: The Strange New Life of an Old Secret War]


A little over a year ago, I was walking down a hallway in the U.S. embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, with a retired C.I.A. operative, Bill Lair. Back in the Vietnam war era, Lair started...

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The C.I.A.'s tribe in danger

2 Comments | Posted March 29, 2009 | 02:34 PM (EST)


[Part 3 in a series: The Strange New Life of an Old Secret War]

It wasn't the usual kind of Agency interrogation.

At a table under a tree, in the yard of a locked detention center, in the city of Nong Khai, in the country of Thailand, across the wide...

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The C.I.A. Man Returns

4 Comments | Posted March 19, 2009 | 05:42 PM (EST)


[Part 2 in a series: The Strange New Life of an Old Secret War]

This is a series about a huge C.I.A. operation from long ago that's come to life again, in new forms - as a terrorism case in America, as a leftover insurgency abroad, and as a vexing...

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The Weirdest Terrorism Court Case in America

8 Comments | Posted March 11, 2009 | 12:33 PM (EST)


[Part 1 in a series: The Strange New Life of an Old Secret War]

Good and bad news this week in the weirdest terrorism court case in the country -- a case that, if it goes to trial, would bring CIA veterans to the witness stand to testify against Justice...

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