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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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Veterans, Clean Energy, and Common Sense

Rob Perks | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Climate Bill, Operation Free, Green Jobs, Climate, Veterans, Wind Power, Frances Beinecke, Solar Energy, President Obama, votevets.org, Obama, Leon Panetta, Anthony Zinni, Lee Gunn, Green News
Rob Perks

There's a growing consensus that one of the best things we can do to enhance our national security is to get off fossil fuels and transition to clean, home-grown energy.

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Nancy Pelosi Claim That CIA Lied Validated By House Intelligence Committee

The Hill | Jared Allen | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leon Panetta False Alert, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Cia Omission, Intelligence Committee Validates Pelosi, Cia Falsinformation, Nancy Pelosi Cia Claim, House Intelligence Committee, Leon Panetta, Pelosi Cia Lie, Intelligence Committee Cia Lie, Politics News

Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have concluded that the CIA did not fully inform Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques d...

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This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"

James Warren | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribunals, Gary Willis, Detainees, Constitution, Executive Power, Nuclear Weapons, Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Leon Panetta, Congress, Obama, Entangled Giant, CIA New York Review of Books, Eric Holder, Bush, Media News
James Warren

No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.

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CQ Columnist: Obama Should Ditch Intelligence Advisory Board

CQ Politics | Jeff Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | 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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Leon Panetta: Karzai Apparent Afghan Election Winner

VOA News | Gary Thomas | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: War Wire, Afghan Election Results, Leon Panetta Karzai, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Leon Panetta, World News

Official preliminary final totals in Afghanistan's recent presidential election have incumbent president Hamid Karzai the winner, but the election was...

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.15.2009 | 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
Andy Worthington

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
Frank Naif

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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Leon Panetta's Job Is Secure Despite Losing High-Profile Battles Over CIA Missteps

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Panetta Job Secure, Panetta Cia, CIA Chief, Panetta, Leon Panetta, Politics News

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency's past missteps, stoking q...

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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
Frank Naif

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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Outsourcing Assassination: to China?

John Feffer | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Outsourcing, Assassination, Blackwater, China, Political Satire, Leon Panetta, World News
John Feffer

Look, if we're going to outsource, we should outsource to the experts. The Chinese. They make our computers. Why not give them the task of assassinating jihadists?

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Panetta Threatened To Quit, Got In "Screaming Match" Over Torture Probe

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Report, Panetta Screaming Match, Panetta Torture Report, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta Screaming Match, Politics News

CIA Director threatened to quit over an potential criminal investigation of CIA torture, ABC News reported Monday. A "profanity-laced screaming match...

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CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs

Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, National Security, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, Washington Post, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Torture, Politics News
Frank Naif

Panetta's -- and Obama's -- instincts are correct when they promise to protect the CIA's rank and file from prosecution. But protecting the troops from prosecution is not the same as resisting accountability.

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Did the CIA Assassinate? What We Need to Know

Michael Brenner | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Legacy of Ashes, CIA Assassination, Cia, Leon Panetta, Assassination Cheney, Leon Panetta CIA, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Michael Brenner

A serious examination of the CIA/assassination story should begin by sweeping aside the rubbish cluttering the electronic ether on this issue.

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Panetta "Blindsided" By Probe Of Secret CIA Program

Newsweek | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holder Panetta, Panetta, Panetta Cia Probe, Eric Holder, Holder Panetta Cia Probe, CIA Probe, Leon Panetta, Politics News

NEWSWEEK's disclosure that attorney General Eric Holder Jr. may appoint a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuse has revived tensions in the Obama a...

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Torture, Wiretaps, Lies to Congress: Old Spy Cronies a Drag on Obama's "Look to the Future"

Frank Naif | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inspector General, Warrantless Wiretapping, John Brennan, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Dni, Special Prosecutor, Stephen Kappes, Cia, Glenn Greenwald, Congressional Oversight, Assassination, Leon Panetta, Accountability, Marcy Wheeler, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

Over the past week, a triple-whammy of developing national security stories reminded Americans and the Obama administration that the past is a stubborn thing.

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The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Billy Waugh, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Wesley Clark, CIA Assassination, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Senate Intelligence Committee, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Steve Coll, House Intelligence Committee, Cheney Assassination Ring, Cia, Cofer Black, Moammar Gadhafi, Jimmy Carter, Assassination, Slobodan Milosovic, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.

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Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess - and It's a Mess

Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Corruption, Jeppesen Dataplan, Foia, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Torture, Iraq Contractors, Mitchell Jessen & Associates, Outsourcing, Dusty Foggo, House Intelligence Committee, Dni, Booz Allen Hamilton, Classified Contracts, Jane Mayer, Cia, Private Security Contractors, Defense Contractors, Waste, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Leon Panetta, FOIA Requests, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, White House, Politics, Intelligence, Bush Administration, Senate, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, President Obama, Bush Legacy, Leon Panetta, Legislation, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The New Republic, Walter Lippmann, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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CIA Secret Program Was To Capture Or Kill Al Qaeda Operatives

Wall Street Journal | SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Cia Secret Program, Cia Program, Cia, Leon Panetta, Cheney, Politics News

A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to c...

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

The Plumline | Posted 08.10.2009 | 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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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.10.2009 | 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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Secret CIA Program Was "Intelligence-Collection Activity"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secret Cia Program, Panetta, Leon Panetta Cia Program, Cia Lies, Cia Lied, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta Secret Cia Program, Politics News

The Washington Post has more details on the secret program that CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed this week had been hidden from Congress since 2001....

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