07 February 2009 | Barack Obama, CIA, Censorship, Civil liberties, Covert Action, Guantánamo, News, Obama, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes | L. Reichard White
Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed.
Why?
Perhaps this explains it:
So, while a few die hard “24″ fans — and Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey — might still claim confusion about [...]
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12 December 2008 | CIA, Media | Scott Horton
For those interested in the tragic story of Gary Webb, the reporter who covered the Dark Alliance between the CIA and crack epidemic-supplying Contra gangsters, as told in this weekend’s viewpoint by Robert Parry, you can listen to my January 31, 2004 interview of Webb here.
You can read the entire Dark Alliance series for the [...]
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15 August 2008 | CIA, Covert Action, Empire, Iran, Propaganda, US Military | Tim Swanson
The US military recently accused Iran of training “death squads” whose primary goal is carrying out assassinations. The information is being made public to supposedly “pressure” Iranian leadership into halting these operations.
So if Iranian assassins are called “death squads” what are similarly trained operatives from the CIA or Army called?
Perhaps the euphemisms that Pentagon officials [...]
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15 February 2008 | Arlen Specter, CIA | Matt Barganier
He’s not going to let the powerful get away with breaking the rules and destroying the evidence of their wrongdoing.
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