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hotair.com - 3 days ago
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A new one from CNS featuring Kent Conrad,
who’ll be spared a “worst person in the world”...
award on Olbermann’s show for this bit o’ demagoguery solely by virtue of his party affiliation. [...] Read the rest »
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Dem senator: Americans who don’t want KSM tried in ...
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doubleplusundead.mee.nu - 5 days ago
tinyrevolution.com - 8 days ago
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Where has the CIA tortured people? ABC has
just reported that one place was Lithuania : The...
CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a ...
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Did Rumsfeld Tour KGB Torture Museum to Pick Up Useful Tips?
thehill.com - 10 days ago
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If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's
no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the...
Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of that committee, said that arguments raised by Republican senators about ...
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Leahy: No need to interrogate bin Laden
abcnews.go.com - 10 days ago
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Lithuanian horse stable was converted into a secret
CIA detention center...
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CIA Secret Prison Found
realclearpolitics.com - 10 days ago
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Sen. Lindsey Graham The Latest Politics, News &
Election Videos SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: "If you're gonna prosecute...
anybody in civilian court, our law is clear that the moment custodial interrogation occurs, the ...
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Will Osama Bin Laden Be Read Miranda Rights?
latimes.com - 12 days ago
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Reporting from Washington - Sensitive CIA operations overseas
will face new scrutiny from the nation's intelligence director...
under a plan approved by the White House and outlined in a memo to the espionage workforce last week. The move marks an ...
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National intelligence director to evaluate CIA missions -
usatoday.com - 13 days ago
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usatoday.com —
Key dates for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in U.S.
custody: March 2003. Mohammed captured in Pakistan. CIA...
officers waterboard him 183 times over the next month. July 22, 2004. 9/11 Commission calls Mohammed the "principal architect" of 9/11. Sept. 6, ...
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Plans to try 9/11 suspect in NYC draw fire
foxnews.com - 14 days ago
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The Obama administration, in deciding to try alleged
Sept. 11 conspirators in a New York courtroom, has...
said it is setting its sights on convictions, but some critics say a civilian trial -- instead of a military tribunal -- could end up targeting the ...
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Some Fear Bush Administration Could Become Target in ...
timesonline.co.uk - 15 days ago
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The Pakistani Army ran training camps for a
Muslim extremist group, at least until recently, with the...
acceptance of the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to France s foremost anti-terrorist expert. Jean-Louis Brugui re, who retired in 2007 ...
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Pakistani Army ran Muslim extremist training camps, says ...
tomdispatch.com - 15 days ago
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Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways --
as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even...
before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the ...
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Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
redstate.com - 16 days ago
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During the Bush administration, leaks out of the
Pentagon, State Department, and CIA that would undermine national...
security were routinely praised by the Democrats and mainstream media as patriotic. Now that leaks are coming out showing just how ...
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What Was Once Patriotic Is Now Treason
nypost.com - 17 days ago
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A controversial imam who was an "unindicted co-conspirator"
in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was among...
a group of Muslim leaders invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall. Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb ...
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1993 WTC 'plotter' in Mike meet
thehill.com - 17 days ago
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The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee
accused the White House last night of withholding information...
on the Fort Hood attack. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about ...
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Top Republican says White House hiding info on Ft. Hood
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 17 days ago
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Is Pete Hoekstra lying to the press to
gin up fear again?...
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Is Crazy Pete Hoekstra Lying and Demagoging Again?
huffingtonpost.com - 17 days ago
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On last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow
Show, the host dug into the curious case of...
Representative Pete Hoekstra, who's been courting cameras lately in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre, telling tales out of school. Chief among them are his ...
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Rachel Maddow Takes On Pete Hoekstra's 'Epic Grandstanding'
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com - 19 days ago
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This was a jihad martyrdom operation in full
accord with classical Islam and jihad terrorism "theory," as...
sanctioned by even today's Muslim "luminaries" like the Sunni Pope Tantawi and the much more popular mainstream Muslim man on the street cleric ...
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Major Muslim Hasan's Presentation on Islam
smh.com.au - 19 days ago
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WASHINGTON: In the past two years intelligence agents
intercepted between 20 and 30 emails from Major Nidal...
Hasan to a radical cleric in Yemen known for his anti-American teachings. The revelation suggests authorities may have neglected to monitor the ...
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Hasan emails cleric
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 19 days ago
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is blasting President Obama
for withholding from the Congressional intelligence committees information on...
the Fort Hood killings suspect, while at the same time acknowledging the leaders of those panels -- including Hoekstra ...
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Rep. Hoekstra Accuses Obama Admin Of Withholding ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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Check out this transcript of a discussion between
Robert Baer, 20 year CIA veteran, and Victor Davis...
Hanson.
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Robert Baer & Victor Hanson: 50% of Israeli Strike on Iran
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 20 days ago
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The CIA is denying an ABC News report
that the agency has refused to brief Congress on...
any knowledge it has about Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major suspected in the shootings at Fort Hood last week. "This is a law enforcement investigation, in ...
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CIA Calls ABC Report That It Refused To Brief Congress ...
themoderatevoice.com - 20 days ago
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ABC News reports that U.S. military officials were
aware that the shooter in the Fort Hood masscre...
had was trying to get in touch with people associated with Al Qaeda — a report that, if true, has a host of implications on the military, ...
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Report: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Knew Hasan Was Trying ...
abcnews.go.com - 20 days ago
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Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic
Means' to Connect with Terrorists By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW...
COLE and BRIAN ROSS Nov. 9, 2009 U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to ...
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Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
abcnews.go.com - 20 days ago
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U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact...
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
abcnews.go.com - 20 days ago
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U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact...
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
abcnews.go.com - 20 days ago
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U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact...
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
abcnews.go.com - 20 days ago
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U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that
Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact...
with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known ...
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, ...
themoderatevoice.com - 21 days ago
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Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to
convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil...
are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ...
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Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA ...
afj.org - 22 days ago
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Tortured Law President Barack Obama has ended six
years of American torture of suspected terrorists arising from...
the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. The torture was originally outlined and sanctioned in 2002 by a series of memos drafted by lawyers in ...
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Alliance for Justice
themoderatevoice.com - 23 days ago
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Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro has done something no
one else has: He has obtained the first convictions...
involving the CIA practice of ‘rendition.’ For those interested in reading the Italian coverage of yesterday’s first ever convictions for the U.S. government’s ...
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CIA Agents Convicted of Kidnapping; Italian Officials ...
rawstory.com - 24 days ago
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craigmurray Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to
be raped with broken bottles The CIA relied on...
intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and ...
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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped ...
abcnews.go.com - 24 days ago
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Sabrina deSousa says U.S. "Betrayed" her and others
found guilty in kidnapping....
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EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law"
foxnews.com - 24 days ago
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 The U.S. expressed "disappointment"
over the kidnapping convictions of 23 Americans, Reuters reported....
"We are disappointed by the verdicts against the Americans and Italians charged in Milan for their alleged involvement ...
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U.S. Expresses 'Disappointment' Over Italian Court's ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 24 days ago
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The US intelligence gathering program known as “extraordinary
rendition” was essentially put on trial for the first...
time - in Italy - and this week the court rendered a guilty verdict.
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Italian Court Levies Judgment on U.S. Rendition Program
google.com - 25 days ago
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(AP) 1 day ago WASHINGTON The government has
agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent...
of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping. The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce ...
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The Associated Press: Government agrees to pay $3 ...
judicialwatch.org - 26 days ago
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Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates
and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has...
obtained new documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding the results of the detainee interrogation ...
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Judicial Watch Obtains New CIA Documents on Terrorist ...
news.yahoo.com - 27 days ago
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WASHINGTON Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in
the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud...
over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation ...
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Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall
cbsnews.com - 27 days ago
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he had
no idea who released Plame's identity as a CIA...
agent. Photo Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he had no idea who released Plame's identity as a CIA agent. (AP)
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Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions
corner.nationalreview.com - 28 days ago
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On Friday, the Justice Department released reams of
newly declassified documents on the CIA interrogation program. Among...
the documents is a revised, October 2009 version of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s involvement ...
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New Documents Show the CIA, Not the FBI, Got Zubadayh to ...
news.yahoo.com - 29 days ago
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AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney told
the FBI in 2004 he had no idea who...
leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.
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Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked Plame ID
(AP)
huffingtonpost.com - 29 days ago
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Thursday restored an
independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney...
general if it thinks that a U.S. intelligence agency may have broken the law, a move intended to improve ...
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Obama Restores Power To Intelligence Oversight Board
talkleft.com - 29 days ago
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The FBI today released notes (pdf) of former
Vice-President Dick Cheney's FBI interview on the leak of...
Valerie Plame's identity. In the interview, Cheney is critical of the CIA . Cheney could not recall 22 things, including, whether he had ever ...
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Dick Cheney's FBI Interview Notes on Valerie Plame Leak
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 29 days ago
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Cheney revealed a meeting with Bush at which
Wilson was discussed. And right after that, Rove talked...
at the senior staff meeting about hitting back at Wilson.
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Bush’s July 7, 2003 Discussion about Wilson
motherjones.com - 29 days ago
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Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview
with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame...
Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Reponsibility and Ethics in ...
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22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Remember About the Plame Case
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 29 days ago
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I guess there ARE limits to which Obama
won’t stoop to protect Dick Cheney. As I predicted,...
DOJ released his interview materials. Here they are: Interview Summary Notes 1 Notes 2 Seeing as how I just walked in the door, I’ll be reading ...
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Cheney Interview Materials
news.yahoo.com - 29 days ago
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AP - Vice President Dick Cheney told the
FBI that he had no idea who leaked the...
CIA identity of Valerie Plame to the news media.
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Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked Plame ID
(AP)
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 29 days ago
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Dick Cheney told FBI investigators that his response
to hearing that Joe Wilson had been sent to...
Niger to assess whether Saddam had tried to buy yellow-cake was that it was "amateur hour" at the CIA. That's according to a summary of the FBI's ...
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Cheney: Sending Wilson To Niger Was "Amateur Hour" At ...
citizensforethics.org - 29 days ago
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citizensforethics.org —
Dick Cheney 30 Oct 2009 // Washington, D.C.
- Today, after successfully winning a lawsuit against the...
Department of Justice, under court order, CREW received documents related to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with the FBI in the ...
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CREW LAWSUIT RESULTS IN RELEASE OF NOTES OF CHENEY'S FBI ...
politicsdaily.com - 30 days ago
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Sitting in the front row at a Senate
Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee...
Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly held up two pink cardboard signs that read "U.S. War = Terrorism" and "Drone Attacks Kill Civilians." ...
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Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 30 days ago
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Iran is defying the entire civilized world, Israel
is deciding whether to launch a military strike, and...
the President of the United States…is busy polishing his medal from the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Today on Uncommon Knowledge , military ...
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Situation Room -- By: Peter Robinson
