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Former CIA Director William Colby Subject of New Documentary

Michael Rose | Posted 12.14.2011

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Michael Rose

The Man Nobody Knew chronicles the life of the filmmaker's father, CIA Director William Colby, whose testimony to the Senate panel prompted numerous reforms in the agency.

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The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Church Committee, John Boehner, Peace Activists, President Obama, Michael Mukasey, Minneapolis-Raid-on-Anti-War-Activists, Fbi, John Ashcroft, Valerie Caproni, Fourth Amendment, Tea Party, Cointelpro, Eric Holder, Police State, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Listen closely and what you will hear, beneath the babble of political chatter and other mindless political noises distracting you from what's really going on, are the dying squeals of the Fourth Amendment.

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How Top Secret America Misfires

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Coleen Rowley

Why has Congress not yet awoken to the fact that since 9-11 we have been sailing into a perfect storm? Here are just some of the turbulent winds blowing and pushing officials in the wrong direction.

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Update About the Government's New War on Peace

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Coleen Rowley

The raids on anti-war activists indicate to me that the FBI is merely seizing the moment in opportunistic fashion and abusing its discretion under the overbroad series of "war on terror" laws.

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Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering With a New Cointelpro

Peter Christian Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Estrin, Church Committee, J. Edgar Hoover, Cognitive Infiltration, Conspiracy Theories, 9/11, Cointelpro, Extremist Groups, Obama Administration, Fred Hampton, Cass Sunstein, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Chat Rooms, Glenn Greenwald, Martin Luther King Jr., Harvard Law School, Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, Fbi, Daniel Tencer, Dissidents, Politics News
Peter Christian Hall

This may be just the time to brush up on Cointelpro, the notorious program through which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover vigorously disrupted the activities of American political dissidents.

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Whistleblowers: An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean

Ann Beeson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon Papers, Church Committee, Watergate, Holder, Richard Nixon, John Dean, Film-Forum, Daniel Ellsburg, Vietnam, Torture Prosecutions, Torture, New York News
Ann Beeson

Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean discuss the Pentagon Papers 30 years later, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, and whether public opinion matters.

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Cheney, Rumsfeld Urged CIA To Mislead Congress In The 1970s, Authors Say

Online Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President...

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Reconciling Senator Leahy's Independent Commission Proposal

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Church Committee, Aclu, Patrick Leahy, Bush Administration, Obama Administration, Bush Torture, Torture, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

The idea of truth in government may seem naïve -- especially after President Bush's legacy of secrecy -- but it's an idea we should never lose sight of and should never stop striving for.

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