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GOP Rep. Says He Would Support An Investigation Of Secret CIA Program

The Plumline | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Dems, Gop, Intelligence, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Silvestre Reyes, Jan Schakowsky, House of Representatives, Mac Thornberry, Cia Secret Program, Leon Panetta, Politics News

I'm a bit surprised this isn't getting more attention: Last night, A Republican member of Congress -- Rep Mac Thornberry -- said he would support an i...

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This Week In Cheating

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Congress, Cia, Goldman Sachs, TheStreet.Com, Lenny Dykstra, Jim Cramer, Aig, Sec, Cheating, Angelo Mozilo, Subprime, Uncle Sam, Comedy News
Jeff Kreisler

How else are they supposed to exploit people and make billions? Geesh. I suppose you think health care "reform" will change everything, too, right?

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Jason Linkins

Joe Scarborough, Pelosi Critic, Now Laments Unfair Criticism Of Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Joe Scarborough, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Spencer Ackerman, Leon Panetta, Media News

Scarborough's now lamenting that Nancy Pelosi, "a friend of mine from Congress" has "caught a lot of grief" for that criticism. The big takeaway? Starbucks apparently has a Rohypnol Frappuccino.

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CIA, Pelosi, Dems, Repubs, Media: All Guilty

Chip Berlet | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence Agency Abuses, Civil Liberties, Repression, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Liberal denial gives silent permission to authoritarian aggression and violence by our government. The bogeyman has shifted from communism to terrorism, but the dynamics remain the same.

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Shirley and the CIA

Norman Horowitz | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: And Don’t Call Me Shirley!, Yes I Am Serious, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Home News
Norman Horowitz

Where are all of the documentaries about the CIA on FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC?

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The CIA and Murdoch Will Get Away With It

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Tabloids, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Cia, Leon Panetta, Investigation, Celebrities, Media News
Michael Wolff

The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.

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Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, Pentagon, Robert McNamara, Cia, Vietnam, Politics News
William E. Jackson Jr.

Ford took McNamara to task on several points, but on none more severely than McNamara's complaint that "there were no Vietnam experts" to whom top policymakers could turn for advice.

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Scott Mcclellan, Libby Trial, Doj, President Obama, Terry O'Donnell, Dan Bartlett, Obama, David Addington, Nie, Department of Justice, Newsweek, Patrick Fitzgerald, Michael Isikoff, White House, Judith Miller, Cia, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Politics News

You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Lewis Kaplan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, African Embassy Bombings, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Black Sites, Justice Department, New York, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Cia, CIA Black Sites, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Federal Court, David Raskin, President Obama, War on Terrorism, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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Iran and the C.I.A

Tom Gabbay | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Iran, Ayatollah, Islamic Republic of Iran, Cia, President Obama, US-Iran Relations, Jimmy Carter, Tehran, Iran, Supreme Leader, Operation Ajax, Ayatollah Khomeini, Wolf Blitzer, World News
Tom Gabbay

This revolution, if that's what it is, can only come from the Iranian people. The US must remain on the sidelines; a spectator to what could be a game changer in the Middle East and beyond.

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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CIA Report On Interrogation Delayed Again

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia Interrogation Report, Cia, CIA Interrogation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation p...

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Robert Ménard Slams Door, or Booted Out, of Doha Center for Media Freedom?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Arab Online, French, Cia, Jaber Al Harmi, Al Jazeera, Robert MéNard, Doha Center for Media Freedom, Arab Media, Usa, Arab World, Paris, Reporters Without Borders, France 3 TV, Al Sharq, The Economist, Afp, Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer Al-Thani, On en Parle a Paris, Qatar, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Depending on whose version one believes, Robert Ménard, ex-director of the Doha Center for Media Freedom, pushed the press freedom envelope a bit too far, until he was shoved out the door.

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The Ayatollah's Curse

Eric Margolis | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Cia, Iran Election, Barack Obama, World News
Eric Margolis

Almost every American president who has gotten involved in Iran has had his fingers burned. So the cautious President Obama is advised an excess of caution when dealing with Iran.

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Advocacy Groups Say Torture Memo Authors Should Be Disbarred

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Torture, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Inspector General, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the District of Columbia and New York bar associations to disbar three government attorney...

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The Gulf Can't Deal with Iran Until Iran Deals with Itself

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Cia, Iran Election, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Madeleine Albright, Mossadegh, Al Qaeda, United Arab Emirates, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

The GCC is looking at an Iranian government that has lost a great deal of credibility, both locally and internationally, and has yet to figure out how to deal with itself.

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Covered For CIA In Iran-Contra Crack Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Drug Trade, Washington Post, Cia, Ryan Grim, Media Criticism, Media News

Over at The Root, you can read an excerpt of my colleague, Ryan Grim's book This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History Of Getting High In Ameri...

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Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Cia, World Bank, U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Imf, Barack Obama, Indigenous People, Quixote Center, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shah, World Trade Organization, Human Rights, Peru, Center for International Policy, President Bush, Republican Party, Amazon, Politics News
Norman Solomon

When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Holocaust, Department of Defense, Doubleday, Mossad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Intelligence Community, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Strangelove, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet, Cia, Regime Change, Institute of World Politics, Tehran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Espionage, World News
Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Despite Reform Pledges, Panetta Enables CIA's Bad Old Habits

Frank Naif | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Dni, Cia, National Security, Congressional Oversight, Obama National Security Team, Obama National Security, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Frank Naif

The Obama team portrayed Leon Panetta as a no-nonsense Beltway veteran who would 'fix' the CIA. Over the past few weeks, however, he has emerged as an obstacle to real reform and accountability at the CIA.

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Obama Torture Task Force Considers Reducing CIA Role In Interrogations

The Washington Independant | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama, Gitmo, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cia, Barack Obama, Enhanced Interrogations, Leon Panetta, Torture, Politics News

The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama's ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency...

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

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Court Will Not Revive Plame Lawsuit Against Cheney, Libby, Armitage

AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Valerie Plame, Plame, Cia, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush admi...

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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