Intelligence

I Want A VP Who Is Smarter Than Me

Pam Atherton | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Wasilla, Vice President, Debate, Middle Class, Joe Biden, Maverick, Shia, Intellectual, Nuclear, Anti-Intellectual, Intelligence, Vice President Debate, Elite, Folksy, Sarah Palin, Washington, Alaska, Sunnis, Hockey Mom, John McCain, Home News
Pam Atherton

I don't want someone who believes their biggest asset is that they know what it's like to shop at WalMart and take their kids to hockey practice in a mini-van. How will that help in negotiations and diplomatic missions with other heads of state?

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Pakistan's New Spy Chief Raises Concern About Loyalty To US

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan Us Relations, Spying, Intelligence, Politics News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army chief named a general considered a hawk in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban to head the country'...

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Intelligence Briefings For McCain, Obama Forecast That US Global Dominance Will Decrease In Coming Years

Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Intelligence, Thomas Fingar, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News

An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decad...

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Bush Intel Reorganization Gives National Intelligence Director More Power

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence, Executive Order, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Bush's new executive order revising rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence director's powers a...

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Now I Get It

Paula Gordon | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Tim Weiner, Cia, Legacy of Ashes, Truthfulness, Espionage, Haynes Johnson, Covert Actions, Politics News
Paula Gordon

If you find a mess somewhere in the world, there's a good chance the CIA's fingerprints are on it. All over the world. For more than half a century.

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Hillary: Don't Expect Your Bashers to thank You for Doing the Right Thing on FISA

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Daily Kos, Intelligence, The Nation, Hillary Critics, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Telecommunications Companies, Surveillance, FISA Bill, Move on.Org, Huffington Post, Hillary Clinton, Home News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In January Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plainly and unequivocally said that they were deeply troubled by the F...

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Fixing Iraq: Cops for COIN

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police, Afghanistan, Iraq, Intelligence, Counterinsurgency, Iraq Police, Iraq Reconstruction, Police Reconstructrion, Peackeeping, Afghan Taliban, Politics News
Adam Elkus

The time has come for the development of standing constabulary forces that can draw talented and intelligent individuals for overseas policing.

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The Secret Question Obama and McCain Will Never Hear

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government, Nsa, Intelligence, Cia, Mccain, War, Obama, Debates, Iraq, Agencies, Politics News
Aaron Greenspan

I've watched a number of the debates now, both Democratic and Republican. As with so many things, the quality has gone down as the quantity has gone u...

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The Chinese Student Frontline in PRC's Olympic Public Diplomacy

Monroe Price | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Students Upi, Intelligence, Torch Relay, Olympics, Boycotts, Reverend Moon, Public Diplomacy, China, Chinese College Students, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Media News
Monroe Price

The 45,000 Chinese students in the United States now carry the potential to become a voice in th US. We've seen the effect of this in the torch debates and elsewhere.

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A Card-Sharp Thriller, Huh? You Get Paid for This?

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: 21, Advertising, Movies, New Movies, Movie Reviews, Gambling, Television, Intelligence, Education, Roger Ebert, Entertainment, Roger Ebert Reviews, Film, Blackjack, Magazines, Entertainment News
Jeff Dorchen

In the TV ad for the movie 21, the announcer says, as if it's a terrific, exciting piece of news, "Entertainment Weekly calls it 'a card-sharp thrille...

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Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed

Lionel Beehner | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Postwar, Intelligence, Iraq, Office of Special Plans, Pentagon, Feith Iraq, Doug Feith, George Packer, Doug Feith Book, Doug Feith 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes, George Tenet, Bremer, Iraqi Army, Chalabi, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Only in the field of foreign policy can someone have so disastrous a record and be showered with medals, professorships, and endowed chairs at prestigious think tanks.

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Donald Rumsfeld's Soft Side

John Brown | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Intelligence, New US Information Agency, Cia, Don Rumsfeld, Politics News
John Brown

The former Defense Secretary isn't known for believing in public diplomacy. So why is he calling for a new US information agency?

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Joseph Wilson Hits Obama on Iraq

Taylor Marsh | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Valerie Plame Wilson, Cia, Pakistan, Obama, Iraq, Joseph Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

Valerie nails it: Democrats have it hands down over the Republicans, especially on foreign policy. But like her husband, she's backing Clinton.

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Sam Stein

Military Leaders: Ignore Bush Veto Threat, Ban Waterboarding

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Bush Veto, Michael Hayden, Intelligence, Army Field Manual, Military, Congress, President Bush, Intelligence Bill, CIA Tapes, CIA Coverup, Warwire, Politics News

Thirty retired admirals and generals have penned a letter to key Democrats, urging them to defy President Bush's veto threats and pass legislation req...

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Memories

David Horton | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Evolution, Chimps, Creationism, Rove, Politics News
David Horton

Remember the Downing Street Memo and its "revelation" that on Iraq "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy"? Seen as outrageous...

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A Failure of Intelligence

Craig Unger | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran Nuclear, War With Iran, Black Propaganda, Propaganda, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Paul Wolfowitz, Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, National Intelligence Estimate, Niger Documents, Neocons, Uranium, Neoconservatives, Richard Perle, Saddamn Uranium, Yellowcake, Niger, Iran Nuclear Program, Politics News
Craig Unger

We have a problem with intelligence successes: successful disinformation operations, black propaganda operations that have promoted falsehoods for decades.

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Top Intelligence Official: Public Needs To Change Their Definition Of Privacy

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Privacy, Wiretapping, Politics News

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, sa...

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Blackwater Expands Into Spies For Hire

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Erik Prince, Cia, Cofer Black, Intelligence, Blackwater, Private Security Firms, Espionage, Iraq War, Iraq, Blackwater USA, Private Security, Spies, Politics News

First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence. The Prince Group, the holding company...

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Spy Chief Orders Probe Of Internal CIA Watchdog

Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 10.11.2007 | Home

Read More: Gen. Michael Hayden, Intelligence, Cia, Home News

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has mounted a highly unusual challenge to the agency's chief watchdog, ordering an internal investigation of an inspect...

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