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Senate Panel Approves Leon Panetta As Next Defense Secretary

AP | Posted 08.14.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved Leon Panetta to be the nation's next Pentagon chief. The panel unanimously approv...

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CIA Chief Visits Pakistan For First Time Since Bin Laden Raid

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 08.10.2011

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ISLAMABAD — CIA Director Leon Panetta met over dinner Friday with Pakistan's spy chief and army head for talks on how to repair ties between the...

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Panetta Must Rein In Personnel Costs, Panel Says

Posted 08.08.2011

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BY Colin Clark Editor AOL Defense Washington -- The day before Leon Panetta goes before the Senate for his first defense secretary nomination hear...

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Private Letter From CIA Chief To John McCain Undercuts Bin Laden Torture Claim

Washington Post | Posted 07.16.2011

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CIA chief Leon Panetta has written a private letter to Senator John McCain that offers the most detailed answer yet to questions about the relationshi...

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In the Shadow of bin Laden: The California Connection

William Bradley | Posted 07.11.2011

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William Bradley

Between Leon Panetta's experience in cutting costs as Clinton's federal budget director and the striking success of William McRaven's counter-terrorist bin Laden mission, maybe this duo can help get us on a different track.

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Pelosi Proves She's No Lame Duck

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joan E. Dowlin

There is only one Democrat in DC that has any balls -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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The CIA Back on Top? Panetta's Opportunity for Real Reform

Joseph W. Augustyn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph W. Augustyn

The resignation of Admiral Dennis Blair as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was a surprise to no one in the intelligence business. In fact, many wonder how and why Blair lasted as long as he did.

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NY Judge Rules Against ACLU: CIA Can Keep Secret Lists

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A judge for a second time has denied efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union to force the CIA to release names and documents re...

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Predator Drone Strikes: Secret Rules, Hidden Costs

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Joby Warrick | Posted 05.25.2011

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The plan was a standard one in the CIA's war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; ...

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CIA Director Leon Panetta Defends Agency After Afghanistan Bomb Attack

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The horrible news Dec. 30 that a suicide bomber had taken seven American lives in Afghanistan may have been for some a stark reminder that we are at w...

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CIA 'Black Sites': Final Status Of The Facilities Remains In The Dark

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whatever happened to the so-called "black sites," where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that ...

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New Year's Resolution: Clean House

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Kuttner

Thus far at the Obama White House, it's only progressives who get thrown under the proverbial bus. If Obama is truly to signal a change of course and mean it, one constructive sign would be replacements for Summers and Geithner.

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CIA Base Chief Killed In Attack: AP

AP | PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base an...

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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Happy Campers?

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keith Thomson

A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.

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Did the CIA Assassinate? What We Need to Know

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Shirley and the CIA

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Horowitz

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

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Will Obama Block Release of Key Bush-era Torture Memos?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Scahill

As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.

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CIA Black Sites No Longer Being Used, Panetta Says

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret ...

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Biden: Bush Gave Al Qaeda "A Powerful Recruiting Tool"

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency's 19th director, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the Bush a...

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Jason Linkins

Panetta Shoots Down "24 Myth" In Testimony

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this week, Kiefer Sutherland, star of the television series 24, attempted to impose some sanity in an interview with the London Guardian. The...

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Panetta Takes Back Remarks On Detainee Rendition

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta formally retracted a statement he made Thursday that the Bush administration transferred prisoner...

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Panetta Confirmation Hearing: Obama's CIA Pick Says No More "Extraordinary Rendition"

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for ...

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CIA Nominee Panetta Received Over $700,000 In Fees, Some From Troubled Banks

Wall Street Journal | Glenn Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House's nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees...

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Obama Raises the Bar for Future Presidents

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Bergthold

Obama's success in these first two weeks has forever changed our expectations of a new President and how he or she should behave.

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