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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...

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CIA Eavesdropping Suit: Government Agrees To Pay $3 Million

AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for ille...

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The Discreet Charms of CIA Morale

Frank Naif | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dusty Foggo, James Woolsey, Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, Cia, Blackwater, George Tenet, Obama National Security, Obama National Security Team, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

Before Eric Holder announced his preliminary probe, and even before Barack Obama promised an end to torture and detention, morale at CIA was sagging.

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Judge: CIA Officials Misled Me; Unseals Secret Files

McClatchy | Michael Doyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involv...

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George Tenet Canceled Secret CIA Hit Teams: AP

AP | PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors...

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The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence

Scott Atran | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

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Scott Atran

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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Cheney, Selling Cheney

Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?

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Sam Stein

Cheney Blames 9/11 On Richard Clarke: "He Obviously Missed It"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Dick Cheney's recent and ongoing media blitz has been defined not just by the fervor with which he has defended his approach to national security affa...

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Sandy Goodman

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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Torture Finally Broke Them

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, George Tenet, Condoleza Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News
John Wellington Ennis

The truth is long overdue. We as a nation need to recognize that the tactic of coercing information does not work.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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Rick Horowitz

If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.

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Psycho: Bush's Willing Medical Torturers

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

Simply releasing the documents about their embrace of torture has further soiled Bush and Cheney's legacy. But whether that is punishment enough is another matter.

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Meet The Real Press

Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

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Stu Kreisman

The fourth estate has abdicated its responsibilities to Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and the bloggers on the internet.

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Whining CIA Officials, Leon Panetta, and Einstein's Definition of Insanity

Frank Naif | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Frank Naif

The CIA's spokesman came down out of his tree to let us know the CIA is not happy that everyone thinks it's an agency that could use some fixing by the likes of Leon Panetta.

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Dear Dick: We Have Received Your Resume...

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Malanowski

Dear Dr. Rice: This is to confirm that you will be teaching a course at The Learning Annex on Saturday, January 31st, to be entitled "Power Enabling: Smart Women, Costly Blunders.''

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A Challenge to Publishers: Say No to Gonzo

Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 02.03.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Memoir, Laura Bush, Publishing, Alberto Gonzales, Scott Mcclellan, Disgrace, George Tenet, Media News
Andrew Foster Altschul

But what if the answer to publishers' problems lies not in finding the right book to publish but in finding the right book not to publish?

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The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

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Hoyt Hilsman

Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.

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Jason Linkins

Rachel Maddow Pushes Back On Bush's Taliban Claim

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media

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Yesterday, I talked about how President George W. Bush had made the extraordinary utterance that he had never before said that "the Taliban was elimin...

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George Tenet Screamed About Jews In Saudi Prince's Pool: Book

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

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The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting excerpt from "A World Of Trouble," a forthcoming book by Patrick Tyler on the White House and th...

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Jason Linkins

Bush Changes Tune On Taliban

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media

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For a long time, one of the ancient tropes that emanated from the White House and its defenders was that at some point in the past, the Taliban was de...

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Cowardly Bush Hides Behind Laura's Skirts: Gibson Fails to Ask the Key Questions

Paul Abrams | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

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Paul Abrams

Although Charlie did press Bush on the Iraq War -- would he have fought it knowing there were no WMDs? -- the presence of Laura Bush during the interview did much to disarm Gibson.

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Bush's Interview wtih Charlie Gibson Marks the Start of His Effort to Revise History

Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Charlie Gibson, Justice Department, 9/11 Attacks, Clinton Administration, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Scott Pelley, Bush Administration, Politicization, Barack Obama, 60 Minutes, George W. Bush, George Tenet, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, ABC News, Bush Presidency, George Bush, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.

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Time to Rise Above Racism and Self-Interest

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Closing Argument, Race in Politics, Barack Obama Primetime Special, Obama Infomercial, Barack Obama Closing Argument, Voting, Taxes, Obama Racism, Mississippi Obama, George Tenet, Tax Rebates, Merigold, Tax Reform, Mississippi Racism, Taxes Cuts, Mississippi, Iraq War, Racism, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Home News
Rachel Farris

There are thousands of people in this country like my Uncle Billy, and they will go to the polls on November 4th with ignorance settled deep in their souls.

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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