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White House Gave Hollywood Filmmaker Access To Team That Killed Bin Laden, Records Show

2012-05-23T09:10:02Z

WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials made "a planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team Six" who killed Osama bin Laden available to a Holly...

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SLIDESHOW: CIA Spy Tools You've Never Seen Before

2012-05-18T11:01:00Z

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heros and vi...

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Bush's CIA Director Hoped For 'Aw, Sh*t!' Moment

2012-05-17T17:44:00Z

WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and...

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FBI Didn't Tell NYPD About Terror Plot

2012-05-17T10:24:52Z

FBI chief Robert Mueller was grilled during a senate panel Wednesday by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the bureau's failure to communicate the deta...

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Christopher Elliott: POLL: What Do You Really Know About The TSA?

2012-05-16T07:00:00Z

When it comes to the TSA, you may know less than you think.

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Washington Spectator: NSA Analyst: "We Could Have Prevented 9/11"

2012-05-14T16:05:18Z

The idea is, NSA only tells Congress what it wants them to hear, and Congress will just have to figure out what it really knows. The problem is, how will Congress find something unless it knows what it's looking for and where to find it?

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Former CIA Officer: Clinton Wouldn't Authorize Bin Laden Kill

2012-05-14T12:25:26Z

Hank Crumpton, a former CIA officer and top counterterrorism official, said in a recent interview that President Bill Clinton's White House missed a g...

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Why Saudi Intelligence Coup In Underwear Bomb Plot Is Cause For Pause

2012-05-09T17:50:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The thwarting of an al Qaeda plot to send an underwear bomber on a U.S.-bound jetliner is more than an intelligence coup in the battle a...

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Reports: Al Qaeda Would-Be Bomber Was CIA Informant

2012-05-08T18:19:09Z

WASHINGTON — The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning.

Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Qaida's Yemen branch hoped to launch...

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Congressman: Al Qaeda Bomb Plot, Drone Attacks Connected

2012-05-08T09:01:00Z

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike in Yemen that killed two members of al Qaeda on Sunday was part of a larger effort to in...

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Alejandro Rojas: Government Psychic Spies and Extraterrestrials

2012-05-07T16:34:13Z

In April, SRI International announced it will be taking over the management of the Allen Telescope Array, whose primary purpose is listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

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CIA Reportedly Foils Al Qaeda Bomb Plot Against U.S.-Bound Jet

2012-05-07T16:04:00Z

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterte...

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The Life And Death Of The First Slain Female CIA Agent

2012-05-06T18:20:16Z

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for emplo...

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Airstrike Kills Senior Al-Qaida Leader In Yemen

2012-05-06T17:43:04Z

SANAA, Yemen -- An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warshi...

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Scout, Ph.D.: Thousands of Vietnam POWs Fight for Health Insurance

2012-05-02T13:01:21Z

For the last two years, Mr. Khao has contacted every legislator he can, asking for official recognition and veteran's benefits for these thousands of U.S. citizens who were soldiers for the CIA's secret war in Laos. So far nothing has come to pass.

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Blake Fleetwood: Terrorists Protected, While Terrorism Fighters Languish in Jail

2012-05-01T12:39:11Z

If the U.S. hopes to convince the rest of the world that its campaign against terrorism is not one-sided and self-serving, the country must figure out a way to cut the long life sentences and harsh treatment of the four jailed terrorism fighters.

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Joel Rubin: The Israeli Generals Revolt

2012-04-27T09:15:37Z

Israeli generals have had enough of the fear-inducing rhetoric from their prime minister. They want a rational debate in Israel about how best to handle the challenge posed by Iran.

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Senate Investigation Finds Little Evidence That 'Torture' Is Effective

2012-04-27T01:00:00Z

* Techniques said not to produce intelligence coups * "Water-boarding," sleep deprivation among techniques * Republicans...

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White House Approves Expansion Of Drone Campaign In Yemen

2012-04-26T01:38:03Z

The United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama tha...

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New Book Explains Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Videos

2012-04-24T17:37:09Z

WASHINGTON -- The retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding says in a new book that he was tired of waiting ...

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CIA Murdered JFK Mistress, New Book Claims

2012-04-19T07:59:23Z

WASHINGTON -- Conspiracy theorists who question President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have, over the years, become obsessed with another m...

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CIA Seeks To Expand Covert Drone Campaign

2012-04-18T20:09:20Z

The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know t...

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David Isenberg: Nothing to See Here... Move Along... Move Along

2012-04-16T13:24:06Z

The implication of the above legalese is that it is dangerous to try and extend U.S. jurisdiction into new and untested parts of other nations. Not only does this shaky ground offend every possible conception of national sovereignty, but it seriously damages the proper pursuit of justice.

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Pakistan To United States: No More Drone Strikes

2012-04-13T08:02:57Z

ISLAMABAD, April 12 (Reuters) - Pakistan's parliament on Thursday unanimously approved recommendations from its national security committee on tie...

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New Details Emerge On Covert War Against Iran

2012-04-11T10:20:49Z

On Tuesday, Iran's state media declared that government authorities had arrested a group of Israel-backed "mercenaries" who were planning to carry out...

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