Archive for the 'CIA' Category
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A01
This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.
A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. No […]
Posted in Constitution, CIA, Cheney, Books, N.S.A., Addington |
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
By MIKE ALLEN
Politico
8/5/08 11:51 AM EST Updated: 8/5/08 11:51 AM EST
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A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, CIA, Cheney, Books, War |
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Iraq, CIA, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Condoleezza Rice, Libby, Wolfowitz |
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD
From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]
Posted in FBI, India, Nuclear Issues, CIA, State Department, North Korea, Pakistan, War, Weapons, Libya, Turkey |
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007; 2:27 PM
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was “subject to […]
Posted in Torture, CIA, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity
Dozens of ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Not Publicly Accounted For
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 27, 2007; Page A01
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA’s overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, […]
Posted in CIA, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Al Gore |
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
October 12th, 2007
October 12, 2007
C.I.A. Internal Inquiry Troubling, Lawmakers Say
By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANEWASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees expressed concern today about an unusual inquiry into the work of the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general, John L. Helgerson, saying that it could undermine his role as […]
Posted in Congress, CIA |
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
October 4, 2007
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
This article is by Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited […]
Posted in administration, Torture, CIA, Condoleezza Rice, Gonzalez, Department of Justice, White House |
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Salon Magazine
Sept. 6, 2007 | On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, CIA, Weapons |
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Into Thin Air
He’s still out there. The hunt for bin Laden.
By Evan Thomas
Newsweek
Sept. 3, 2007 issue - The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, […]
Posted in Military, Afghanistan, Bush, CIA, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan |
