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ITALIAN COURT CONVICTS 23 CIA KIDNAPPER/TORTURERS!

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia In a... more

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U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War

US Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh has become the first US official known to... more

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Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

The New York Times reported this past week that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the... more

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Feds: No True Count of Iraq Contractors

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29052.html "KBR, the largest contractor... more

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CIA Agents Found Guilty of Italy Kidnapping

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8343123.stm "An Italian judge has convicted 23... more

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Cheney to FBI: 72 Instances Of "Can't Recall", Valerie Plame Interview

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/cheney-fbi-interview-72-i_n_341916.html

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Documents Detail Conditions Found at CIA Jails

the FBI and CIA were totally separate, and possessive re:their turf, but that changed... more

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Taliban Leader Rejects US Bribe Money

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America’s Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA

Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, just imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: “Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work.”

Kudos to the New York Times, and to reporters Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, for their lead article Wednesday reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan’s stunningly corrupt President Hamid Karzai, a leading drug lord in the world’s major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.

Okay, the article was lacking much historical perspective (more on that later), and the dead hand of top editors was evident in the overly cautious tone (I loved the third paragraph, which stated that “The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raises significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.”

Well, duh! It should be raising questions about why we are even in Afghanistan, about who should be going to jail at the CIA, and about how can the government explain this to the over 1000 soldiers and Marines who have died supposedly helping to build a new Afghanistan).

But that said, the newspaper that helped cheerlead us into the pointless and criminal Iraq invasion in 2003, and that prevented journalist Risen from running his exposé of the Bush/Cheney administration’s massive warrantless National Security Agency electronic spying operation until after the 2004 presidential election, this time gave a critically important story full play, and even, appropriately, included a teaser in the same front-page story about October being the most deadly month yet for the US in Afghanistan.

What the article didn’t mention at all is that there is a clear historical pattern here. During the Vietnam War, the CIA, and its Air America airline front-company, were neck deep in the Southeast Asian heroin trade. At the time, it was Southeast Asia, not Afghanistan, that was the leading producer and exporter of opium, mostly to the US, where there was a heroin epidemic.

much more at link...Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city,... more