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Najibullah Zazi's Contact With Senior Al-Qaeda Officers Drew CIA's Attention

AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Muhammed Zazi, Al Qaida, Cia, Ahmad Wais Zazi, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Najibullah Zazi, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Denver, Eric Holder, Fbi, Barack Obama, Denver News

WASHINGTON — An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a s...

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Al-Darbi, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, War on Terror, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape, World News, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, False Confessions, Cia, Sere, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabiah, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Fouad Al-Rabia, Guantanamo Bay, US Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Korean War, Sleep Deprivation, Advocacy, Torture, Politics News

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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Iranian Crisis: The Run-Up To Negotiation

William Bradley | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

There's a point in the Iran situation where semantics come into play. Is Iran on a path to nuclear weapons-capable technology? Yes. Is it producing nuclear weapons? No. Does it intend to produce nuclear weapons?

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Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Appear Edited: Attorney (VIDEO)

AP | By TIM TALLEY | Posted 11.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Terry Nichols, Cia, Timothy McVeigh, Jesse Trentadue, Oklahoma City Bombing, Foia, Trentadue, OKC Bombing, Oklahoma City National Memorial, Kenneth Trentadue, OKC, Fbi, Domestic Terrorism, Home News

***Scroll down for video*** OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma Ci...

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Taliban's Diverse Funding Might Make It Impossible To Restrict Cash Flow

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Kabul, Cia, Black List, Taxes, Pakistan, Gen. McChrystal, Obama, Iraq, Treasury Blacklists, CIA Blacklists, Afghanistan War, Pakistan Military, Donations, Iran, Nato, Black Listed, Mcchrystal, Funding, U.N., Opium, Iraq War, Taliban, Afghanistan, Un, Insurgency, Donors, Politics News

KABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, s...

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Experts: Pelosi Is Right To Fear Political Violence

Politico | Eamon Javers | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Cantor Political Violence, Health Care Protests, Cia, Political Violence, Nancy Pelosi Political Violence, Secret Service, Obama Racism, Nancy Pelosi, Fbi, Conservative Racism, Nancy Pelosi Eric Cantor, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today's angry political climate could cause people to...

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CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Detainees' Brains, Making Them Less Reliable: Report

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Torture, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Torture, Interrogation Tactics, World News

WASHINGTON — Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their abil...

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CQ Columnist: Obama Should Ditch Intelligence Advisory Board

CQ Politics | Jeff Stein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama National Security, Obama Intelligence Advisory Board, White House Intelligence Advisory Board, Cia, National Security, Cia Controversy, Armed Services Committees, Leon Panetta, Politics News

Nine months into his administration, President Obama has yet to fill any of the 16 seats on the White House Intelligence Advisory Board -- as far as I...

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CIA In Afghanistan: Presence Expanding

latimes.com | Greg Miller | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Spies Afghanistan, Afghan War, Afghanistan War, Cia, Afghanistan, CIA Afghanistan, Cia Afghan War, Cia in Afghanistan, World News

The CIA is deploying teams of spies, analysts and paramilitary operatives to Afghanistan, part of a broad intelligence "surge" that will make its stat...

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Ex-CIA Chiefs Ask Obama To Stop Interrogations Probe

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations Probe, Obama Administration, CIA Interrogations, Cia, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspe...

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, John Bellinger, Jane Mayer, Cia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Gitmo, World News

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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Yoo's Bad Lawyering, Not Investigations, Threatens CIA

Frank Naif | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Prosecutor, Torture Investigation, Cia, CIA Torture, Philadelphia Inquirer, John Yoo, John Durham, Eric Holder, Politics News

Instead of using his op-ed soapbox to defend his own indefensible legal justifications of an immoral torture program, maybe Yoo should offer to take the investigative heat for the brave CIA men and women.

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U.S. Spy Strategy Released; Intel Chief Dennis Blair Comments On 9/11

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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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

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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9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Today, America needs to reassess what has been done in the name of the victims of 9/11: two horrible and unwinnable wars.

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Bush White House Sought To Soften Treaty On 'Enforced Disappearances'

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Human Rights, Bush, Foreign Prisons, Cia, CIA Secret Prisons, George Bush, Bush White House, Secret Prisons, Torture, Rendition, Politics News

From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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Bush Admin Tried To Shield Those Running Secret CIA Prisons From Prosecution By Softening Treaty

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Witness, Doctors, Uyghurs, Human Rights, Cia, Interview, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, World News

We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Blackwater, Department of Justice, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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Old CIA problems Dog New Interrogation Group

Frank Naif | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Brennan, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, CIA Torture, Cia, John Brennan Cia, Leon Panetta, Torture, Politics News

For all of the attention paid to CIA's morale, carving off a chunk of clandestine counterterrorism operations will become part of the hallway lore of a CIA doomed to be put upon by politicians.

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Why David Broder Is Wrong

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, David Broder, Cia, Accountability, Torture, Politics, CIA Interrogations, Dick Cheney, Eric Holder, George Bush, Politics News

The decision whether to investigate possible crimes connected to our interrogation programs is simply not a political one.

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CIA Doctors Performed Unlawful Human Experimentation On Terror Suspects: Medical Watchdog

guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington in New York | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: CIA UnLawful Human Experimentation, CIA Torture Experiments, Cia Docs, Cia-Documents, Cia, Human Experimentation, CIA Torture, Human Experiments CIA, CIA Doctors, World News

Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unla...

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Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Bruce Fein, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Gop, Justice Department, CIA Probe, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

In an interview late Tuesday, Bruce Fein, an Associate Deputy Attorney General during President Ronald Reagan's administration, said the Justice Depar...

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