What the Brits Said Before Iraq
• Newsweek"I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan and not be tempted to launch any attacks on Iraq." In Drumheller's account, Tenet replied, "Absolutely, we all agree on that."
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Central Intelligence Agency
Why Didn’t the US Warn Us about the 9/11 Terrorists?
• AntiWar.comOnce again, the agency neglected to inform the F.B.I. or the State Department that at least one Al Qaeda operative was in the country. Although the C.I.A. was legally bound to share this kind of information with the bureau, it was protective of sensi
Rendition program has unintended victim
• International Herald TribuneThe secret American program of abducting suspected terrorists looks set to claim an unintended victim. Nicolo Pollari, Italy's top spy, is expected to be replaced in the coming days, and besides that, prosecutors say they intend to see his indic
Londoner was victim of secret CIA rendition
• London TimesA FORMER inmate of the Guantanamo Bay camp has been identified as the first British citizen known to have been subjected to the CIA’s practice of rendition — the capture and transfer of terrorism suspects across the world without legal process.
Terror Suspect Says CIA Recruited Him
• APA former university professor charged with plotting to bankroll Hamas terrorists was once asked by the CIA whether he wanted a job as a spy, his attorney told a jury.
Tip Off
• NewsweekAn unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details of the CIA’s controversial “extraordinary rendition” program, according to a new book.
CIA Warned of Plane Bomb Plot and Ignored
• APAn anti-Castro militant now in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released U.S. government document.
A Double Standard in the War on Terror
• Harpers (kudos Butler S.)October 6, 1976 - 73 people were killed when terrorists blew up Cubana Flight 455. 30 years later, on Sept. 11, 2006, one of the men who carried out the attack, was sitting in a Texas prison when a federal judge ordered him released from detention.
U.S. had secret prison in Germany
• APThe alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and other detainees may have been held and interrogated at a U.S. air base in Germany after they were captured, a British human rights group said Friday. Germany denied the claim.
Rice: No memory of CIA warning of attack
• AP[She can't be sure?!] Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then- CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Was Brewster Jennings cover blown before Novak?
• Wayne MadsenHave to scroll down for this, but according to Mr. Madsen, Brewster Jennings, which was the front company run by Valarie Plame Wilson, which was responsible for stopping the export of nuclear weapons, cover was blown 2 years prior to Novak.
CIA "Personality" Test
• Defense TechThe "CIA personality quiz" is supposed to show how the Agency needs all types to function. So the exam offers up a series of questions, about your favorite leisure activities, the "kind of transportation your prefer," and what su
CIA-backed investment firm stirs health privacy fears
• Government Health HitThe CIA-backed venture capital firm In-Q-Tel is investing money in a company that sells software used for managing electronic health records (Why does the CIA have a venture capital firm. What does it have to do with gathering intelligence)
Senate leader sees Guantanamo torture evidence trial bill passing
• ReutersThe Senate is likely this week to pass a bill that outlines rules for interrogating terrorism suspects and bringing them to trial, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. "Unless we pass this bill, we cannot have an interrogation program continu
US spy agency CIA paid Pakistan for al-Qaeda suspects: Musharraf
• AFPThe US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly said.
Leaked intelligence report rocks Bush election stance
• NY TimesUS spy agencies have dropped a political bombshell 6 weeks before elections, with the leak of a classified report concluding that the war in Iraq has spawned a new wave of Islamic radicalism and increased the global threat of terrorism.
CIA shows it's hand in stand on detainees
• LA TimesFor an agency that ordinarily steers clear of major policy debates, the CIA played an unusually prominent role in the showdown between the White House and dissident Republicans over the treatment of detainees. To many outsiders, the CIA position was
Democrats wary of detainee trials compromise
• ReutersCongressional Democrats were skeptical of a deal negotiated by three hold-out Republican senators to rein in President George W. Bush's program to interrogate and try terrorism suspects.
Secret CIA Prisons in Your Backyard
• AlterNetThe largest covert CIA operation since the Cold War is run not only by shadowy government contractors in the darkest corners of Afghanistan, but also by unassuming Americans in places like Dedham, Mass.
Clarifying Torture
• Reason magazineMr. President, what part of prohibiting "cruel treatment and torture" don't you understand?
Clash of visions over CIA interrogations
• Christian Science MonitorAt the center of the congressional debate over whether to authorize harsh interrogation tactics in the war on terror is a fundamental truism. Cruelty is an uncomfortable concept for most Americans. How mean is too mean? When does harsh treatment b
CIA ‘refused to operate’ secret jails
• Financial TimesThe Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention center at Guantánamo because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities.
Just how far can CIA interrogators go?
• Christian Science MonitorMembers of Congress are looking for answers to very concrete questions on how the CIA questions terror suspects. Is it ever appropriate, for example, to put a naked detainee in a cold cell and douse him with water? If so, for how long? Should inte
Compromise may be coming on torture
• APThe Bush administration and holdout GOP senators expressed confidence they could reach a compromise on rules for CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists.
CIA's Suspect Interrogations Scrutinized
• APThe CIA believed it was operating lawfully in detaining and interrogating 96 suspected terrorists at locations from Thailand to Europe, until the Supreme Court this summer demolished that legal foundation.
Dispute Centers on Reading of Geneva Convention
• LA Times Q&APresident Bush pushed for passage of his military tribunals bill, asking Congress to clarify the meaning of the Geneva Convention to allow the CIA to continue detaining and interrogating prisoners under a formerly secret program. The issue has grown
Spy Agencies Outsourcing to Fill Key Jobs
• LA TimesAt the National Counterterrorism Center — the agency created two years ago to prevent another attack like Sept. 11 — more than half of the employees are not U.S. government analysts or terrorism experts. Instead, they are outside contractors.
A Bold Upstart With CIA Roots
• LA TimesIn the burgeoning field of intelligence contractors, an especially aggressive upstart is Abraxas Corp., a privately held company that has assembled a deep roster of CIA veterans to handle a wide range of clandestine assignments — including secret wor
Bush Proposal May Slow Abuse Prosecutions
• LA TimesWhen the Muslim world was first inflamed over images of abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, President Bush took the lead in a campaign to minimize the damage by pledging that his government would speak through its actions.
Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA
• Harper'sBlackwater USA, the private security contractor that has operated in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and New Orleans, has been booming the past few years. A number of senior CIA and Pentagon officials have taken top jobs at Blackwater,
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