Blog Entries by Roger Warner
No Thanks to the State Department, the Last Remnant of the Vietnam War May Be About to End
There's been a breakthrough in ending a war that should have ended long, long ago. No, not Afghanistan or Iraq. It's a tiny, little-known conflict that grew out of the Vietnam War. Yeah, that one - the war that was supposed to have ended all the way back in 1975.
...The Underperformers: How Key U.S. Officials Have Shaped a Tribal Crisis
2 Comments | 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...
The C.I.A.'s tribe in danger
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...
The C.I.A. Man Returns
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...
The Weirdest Terrorism Court Case in America
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...
1 Comments | Posted December 23, 2009 | 06:04 AM (EST)