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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Back in May 2007, while researching the activities of the American Psychological Association (APA) in support of the U.S. government’s interrogation program, I came across evidence that the APA had engaged in a discussion of torture techniques during a workshop organized by APA and the RAND Corporation, “with generous funding from the Central Intelligence Agency [...]
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Moonbattery (Free subscription) | yesterday
Circus show trials don't come cheap. According to Charles "Chucky Schmucky" Schumer, the bill for Chairman Zero to put George W. Bush, the CIA, the military, and pre-Moonbat Messiah America on trial will come to a pretty penny: "Rough estimate...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
The WaPo 's Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that the Obama administration has decided to try a little tenderness with Hamid Karzai: The new approach, which one official described as a "reset" of the relationship, will entail more engagement with members of Karzai's cabinet and provincial governors, officials said, because they have concluded that the Afghan president lacks the political clout...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
This coming Tuesday (November 24 th ) would have been Bill Buckley’s 84 th birthday. We think a nice way to remember Bill is the way he remembered his own life and doings - through his literary autobiography, Miles Gone By . This beautiful hardcover (a NY Times bestseller when it was first published in 2004) is nearly 600 pages, and includes a CD of WFB reading selections. W oven from personal...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Given the record of Goldman Sachs (as detailed in McClatchy's five-part series), AIG, Halliburton and other supposedly upright U.S. corporations, it's a tad arrogant to complain about the corruption of other countries. Endemic or not, the wink-wink, nod-nod deals of much of the Third World amount to peanuts when compared with the rip-offs visited on taxpayers, investors and consumers here at home....
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Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By Steve Hynd Dan Froomkin asks today what I asked yesterday: what's taking so long with Obama's AfPak decision? And he comes to the same answer: fear of the Wuss Factor. according to Paul R. Pillar, a Georgetown University professor who formerly served as the CIA's chief intelligence analyst for the Middle East, it's pretty clear that the goal of...
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
If you were in Washington DC earlier in the week, you would have seen an extra twinkling object in the night sky over the Capitol building. That twinkle was just the Fairy of Stupidity spreading his stupid dust over the office of Senator Pat Leahy. And that fairy dust is working very well on the Senator, maybe too well. Yesterday during the Senate questioning of Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In purporting to refute Sen. Lindsey Graham's contention that the Obama administration has turned the war into a legal issue, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy proved Graham's point. The Hill reports : "The red herring that my friend [Sen.] Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.] was covering is not realistic," Leahy said during an appearance on "Washington Journal" on C-SPAN. "For...
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Bloggin on down the Rogue (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The attack by a crazed Islamofascist at Fort Hood is only a small sample of what is in store for the future over the next three years that we have to suffer under the lax Obama regime as he tries to curry favor with our nations enemies. Here are the views of pundit, Dick Morris in his NewsMax column: Painting a Bull's-Eye on New York City By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann President Barack Obama's...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Obama's stern words for Pyongyang in Seoul Top Story: U.S. President Barack Obama's much-watched three-day trip to China ended with more of a whisper than a bang. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao reportedly discussed a number of sensitive issues, including North Korea and the U.S. debt held in China. But their many public statements indicated few policy advances. Obama is now visiting South Korea....
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Officials reportedly claim an upscale Lithuanian horseback riding school and cafe was used to interrogate up to eight Al Qaeda suspects at a time.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The commercial, which is planned to debut on mainstream and ethnic TV stations and Web sites nationwide within the next few months, represents artistic and technological leaps for the agency.
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Wired: Danger Room (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
# U.S. turns to local guns-for-hire to secure three more bases in Afghanistan # CIA “black site” prison found at fancy riding academy # Los Alamos shuts down plutonium facility after fire safety concerns # DNI vs. CIA over drone strikes # G.I.s vs. space invaders in Afghanistan [High five: @boingboing, @marcambinder, @stripesbaron]
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As I argue in my recent print story on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the prevailing view in Washington foreign policy circles is that Gates, as an anti-Soviet hardliner at the CIA in the late 1980s, misread the import of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and failed to see the USSR's collapse coming. But here's a dissenting view, via email, from Andrew Hamilton, a former national security council...
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forward movement (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
They keep coming out of the woodwork. Harvard war heroes. This one, when all the other Harvard Law graduates headed off to the white-shoe law firms, the non-profits, community organizing, that kind of thing, he headed off to the United States Marine Corps. Three combat tours later, it was the DEA because, his dad said, unlike CIA and [...]
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whipdaddy | 02/12/2009
For those of you in the dark, Midway Games has a new driving/shooter video games coming out next month called The Wheelman . Vin Diesel stars as Milo Burik, an undercover CIA operative and highly skilled driver (Wheelman) who must infiltrate the criminal underworld of Barcelona to gather information about a covert heist. ********ARTICLE: Vin Diesel stars in Wheelman Video Game
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francxzm | 01/04/2009
A CIA agent who’s gone over to the other side plays a game of Baccarat with Jonas and if Jonas wins the man will help out on their current mission. The team is working with the CIA and their success may have implications to one of their own who is in trouble.
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Not Baccarat
They are playing Texas Hold 'Em Poker, not Baccarat.
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