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Obama Speaks (Some) Truth From Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Obama's Nobel Lecture, Karl Rove, President Hamid Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, International Monetary Fund, Afghan War, President Barack Obama, United Nations, Nobel Committee, Afghan Security Forces, Obama's Nobel Speech, Desertion Rate of Afghan Security Forces, Imf, Afghan Occupation, Nobel Peace Prize, Soviet Union, Cold War, Vietnam, Vietnam War, United States Foreign Policy, Oslo Norway, Afghanistan, Politics News

Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.

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Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Jihad, Cia, Communist, Nyr, Afghanistan, Washington Post, September 11th, Barack Obama, Woodward, Osama Bin Laden, Soviet Union, New York Review of Books, Afghanistan History, Book Reviews, Afghanistan Book, Books News

Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

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Slain Al-Qaeda Leader Posthumously Named Employee of the Month

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Cia, Predator Drones, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News

In a new videotape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.

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Left, Right & Center: Nobel Speech, Bank Bonuses, Health Care, Blackwater and the CIA

Huff Radio | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Cia, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Windfall Profits Tax, Politics News

Obama's muscular moralism? Irreconcilable concepts? A new direction? LRC weighs in on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

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CIA's Blackwater Ties Run Deep, Private Firm Participated In Covert Raids

AP | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Raids, Cia, Blackwater, XE Services, Iraq, Afghanistan, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and A...

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Najibullah Zazi Case: Arthur Folsom No Longer Representing Terror Defendant

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Arthur Folsom, Najibullah Zazi, Denver New York City Terror Cell, Cia, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Denver Terror Defendant, Denver News

DENVER — A Denver lawyer thrust into the international spotlight while representing a Colorado man accused of plotting a terrorist attack is no ...

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The Winds of War

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Cia, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News

Redoubling the effort in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater will only indirectly deny terrorists the kind of safe havens they need to plan another 9/11 scale attack.

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C.I.A. Expanding Drone Attacks Inside Pakistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Attacks, Cia, U.S. Military, Pakistan Drones, Pakistan, Drones, World News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bol...

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Anthropology Association Condemns Work with U.S. Counterinsurgency

Jeff Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Africom, Cia, Counterterrorism, Centcom, Anthropology, Social Science, Spying, Military-Intelligence, Espionage, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan War, Paccom, U.S. Army, World News

Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic organization said today.

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The Failure of the Federalist, No. 10

Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, War Crimes, Supreme Court, Foia, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Torture Photos, National Security, Accountability, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News

Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?

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Christmas Eavesdropping: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies

Keith Thomson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Slidepoll, Gadget Gift Guide, Christmas Gift Gadget, Christmas Gifts 2009, Christmas Gift Ideas, High-Tech Christmas Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Gift Ideas 2009, Cia, Wine, Spying, Electronics, Spy Gadget, Christmas Eavesdropping, Spy Gadgets, Technology News

The latest in finding out who's naughty and nice... ...

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CIA Secrets Revealed: Magician Taught CIA Sleight Of Hand Used In Cold War Espionage

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Spy Books, Cia, Cold War Spies, Magician Books, Cia Secrets, John Mulholland, Cold War, John Mulholland CIA, Cia Secrets Book, CIA Magicians, Books News

The Cold War made for strange partners -- including the CIA and a well-known magician named John Mulholland. In 1953, Mulholland was hired by the C.I....

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"CIA Manual Of Trickery And Deception" Declassified, Now On Sale

Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Magic, CIA Magic Manual, John Mulholland, Cia, CIA John Mulholland, CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, Books News

If you have ever wanted to learn how to slink around unnoticed and send hidden signals like a real CIA agent during the Cold War, then you are in luck...

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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Blackwater's Secret War In Pakistan

The Nation | Jeremy Scahill | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Blackwater Pakistan, Cia, Pakistan, Blackwater, World News

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite di...

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Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cia, Jack Ruby, President Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Jfk, John F. Kennedy Assassination, Fbi, Cuba, Soviet Union, Politics News

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

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Pakistan: 8 Militants Killed In Reported US Strike

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Drone, Us, Cia, Pakistan Militants, Pakistan, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in...

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Antivilai, Al-Qaada, Lithuania, Cia, Interrogation, Dalia Grybauskaite, Horses, Taliban, Llc, Rendition, Riding Academy, Vilnius, Nato, Human Rights, Prison, Elite, Elite Llc, Black Site, Cia Torture Prison, Horse Academy, Horseback Riding, Stable, Interrogation Tactics, Torture, World News

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To Face New York Trial (VIDEOS)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

Read More: September 11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Terrorism, September 11 Trial, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, New York News

WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a ci...

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CIA Wins Epic Turf Battle With Intelligence Czar

newsweek.com | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreign Intelligence, Mike McConnell, Mark Hosenball, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, Politics News

The CIA has decisively won a long-running turf fight with the director of national intelligence, the CIA's ostensible boss, over who will be the top U...

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A National Security Act for the 21st Century

Gary Hart | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Cold War, National Security, Cia, Defense Department, George Marshall, Politics News

NATO has yet to define a 21st century mission. There are new security threats that do not lend themselves to military response and that cannot be addressed either by old alliances or by the US alone.

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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug-Decriminalization, Afghanistan, Drugs, Burma, Cia, Drug Legalization, War on Drugs, Richard Horn, Politics News

The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."

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Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Angela Merkel, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cia, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Germany, Anniversary, Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, World News

When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?

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The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Secrecy, Area 51, Unlv, Cia, Ufos, Airplanes, Spying, Extraterrestrials, Cold War, Spies, Air Force, Top-Secret, Flying-Saucers, Technology News

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.

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