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CIA lied repeatedly to Congress since 2001, says CIA Director Leon Panetta

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress last month that senior CIA officials have concealed significant actions... more

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House Democrats say CIA lied

CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress last month that senior CIA officials have concealed significant actions and misled... more

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Obama Ditches Government "Transparency"

Protecting government officials from annoying ridicule is apparently more important than telling the truth.

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Osama bin Laden Needs to Attack America

. CIA analyst Michael Scheuer nonchalantly proposes the needless slaughter of Americans to further his national security plan on... more

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Mon, Jun 29, 2009

Dr. Oliver Sacks, bestselling author and neurological scholar sits down with Jon to discuss how music affects the brain.

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Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda's shooting?

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The United States may have been behind the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old Iranian woman... more

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The Cyber Shot Twittered Around the World

Unlike Russia, who to this day has successfully denied participation in cyber attacks on Estonia, Lithuanian, and Georgia; or... more

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Glad to see democracy in Iran, is it authentic?

So there's some trouble after the Iranian election. Silly democratic amateurs! They should learn from us Americans.... more

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The challenges of prosecuting and defending war criminals

The challenges of prosecuting and defending war criminals The challenges of prosecuting and defending war criminals... more

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IRAN and CIA :

New York Times reporter Steven Kinzer in his book All Shah’s Men, reveals how the CIA destabilized and overthrew the... more

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Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost and Espionage

There is a compelling lesson in this fact. A decade ago, such stories rarely made it onto the news wire or into the courts. Today,... more

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CIA targets laid-off bankers in recruitment drive

Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you -- as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by... more

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CIA's Iranian plan

Is there a connection? Is this a continuation of the Bush directive for covert action? From the link: Bush Authorizes New... more

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LA GUERRA USA PER IL DOMINO GLOBALE

di Michel Chossudovsky L'amministrazione Bush si è imbarcata in un'avventura militare che minaccia il futuro... more

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TORTURA E AMNESIA STORICA

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CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked

CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the... more

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Cheney Almost "Wishing That This Country Would Be Attacked Again"

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama... more

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CIA Director: Cheney Almost Seems To Want Another Terrorist Attack

The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local... more

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Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen

American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the... more

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More ’sickening’ truths about torture soon to be revealed

A crucial CIA Inspector General’s report from May 2004 is expected to reveal some long-hidden truths about the Bush administration’s use of torture.

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “This report is sort of the big kahuna in terms of what we have been waiting to see from the government’s own files on torture. That report, which is long and has been described by people who have seen it as ’sickening,’ apparently stopped the torture program in its tracks.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently warned in a speech on the floor of the Senate that almost everything we think we know about the Bush administration’s torture program is wrong.

“There has been a campaign of falsehood about this whole sorry episode,” Whitehouse stated. “We’ve been misled about nearly every aspect of this program. … Measured against the information I’ve been able to get access to, the storyline that we have been led to believe … is false in every one of its dimensions.”

Maddow then asked Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff whether the report will fill in the mission information to which Whitehouse referred.

“We don’t know how complete the disclosures are going to be,” Isikoff cautioned. “Will we see the complete unredacted report? That is the key question here.”

“There are three key questions to look for,” Isikoff explained. “Were there harsh interrogations that began before the … legal authorizations? … Did they go beyond what was authorized? … Did it go beyond just finding out about possible plots against the United States to provide other information, such as supplying possible evidence that could be used to justify the war in Iraq?”

Isikoff noted that there are footnotes in the torture memos already released which “quote from the Inspector General’s report that what was actually done went beyond what was authorized — that how waterboarding was conducted, the frequency with which it was conducted, and the manner in which it was conducted was beyond what the CIA told the Justice Department it was going to do when the Justice Department authorized the technique.”

Isikoff emphasized, however, that almost none of this information is being released voluntarily. It’s being slowly pried out through Freedom of Information Act requests, most of them filed by the ACLU, and “it’s become trench warfare — document by document.”

“The CIA and the intelligence community has pushed back hard,” Isikoff stressed. “People in the intelligence community never wanted this stuff out to begin with.”A crucial CIA Inspector General’s report from May 2004 is expected to reveal some long-hidden truths about the Bush... more