Tag Archives: CIA
Ted Kennedy has Died
1. Ted Kennedy. 1932 – 2009 - For all of the work that he did in the Senate, for all of the impact that he had, I’d still really like to know what actually happened, that night on Chappiquidick.
(From The Hill, ABC News, and Time Magazine)
2. ACLU gets more CIA documents on CIA interrogation Techniques [...]
Ben Bernanke Reappointed
1. Ben Bernanke be Back - Well, if you don’t switch horses in the middle of a stream… you sure as hell don’t switch horses in the middle of the Mississippi at flood stage… surrounded by crocodiles? (From the Wall Street Journal). On a side note, good to see that ties are banned at Martha’s [...]
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What an attack on Iran might look like
1. Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program with Force - What an attack by US forces on the Iranian Nuclear Capabilities would entail, and the consequences that would follow. (From NPR)
2. Obama approves new team to interrogate Terrorists - Experts from numerous security agencies will team up to interrogate high value Terrorist detainees. Which is a much [...]
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Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check
1. President Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check - There’s so much misinformation on BOTH sides of the aisle about this thing, that you’d wonder if we’ll ever know the truth about what will… or what won’t… get passed. (From the Associated Press)
2. President Obama Weighs in on Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest mess [...]
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Kill Terrorists Teams almost started Training
1. Secret CIA Program was about to get the green light - The Plan that Dick Cheney told the CIA to not inform Congress about, was shut down by new CIA Director Leon Panetta before it launched into a training phase. Training as in, training teams of agents overseas to head out into the field [...]
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Cheney and CIA Can of Worms to be opened
1. Feds might start investigating Cheney to CIA: keep it quiet thing -
So the former VP told the CIA to not tell the Senate Intelligence Committee about some super-secret counter terrorism program. Now there’s pressure on the administration to launch an investigation. Seems like plenty of people know about the program, and you’d think it’d [...]
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Newsflash: The CIA isn’t always truthful
1. CIA admits to lying to Congress – No kidding. I’d be surprised if they didn’t lie to Congress. CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a closed door meeting that the CIA has misled congress here and there since 2001. (I doubt 2001 – present is the only time period the CIA hasn’t been [...]
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Pelosi: The CIA and Bush Administration lied to me
1. Speaker Pelosi fires back - The CIA says they told her about waterboarding in 2002. She insists that they did not. Somebody’s lying, and is it possible that everyone is? Bonus: Article draws the parallel between Cheney and the extreme right, and Pelosi and the extreme left. Dead on accurate if you ask me. [...]
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Obama pulls an about face on detainee photos
1. On second thought… let’s keep those snapshots to ourselves -
The President changes his mind on the release of actual photos showing more prisoner mis-treatment at the hands of U.S. military. Sec. of Defense Robert Gates asked them not to be released, General Petraus asked them to not be released… it’s good to have a [...]
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Waterboarding, Waterboarding, Everywhere
1. CIA waterboarded two Al-Qaeda types 266 times - That’s…
Wow that’s a lot. (From the NY Times)
2. Ahmadinejad knows how bomb on stage – Claims Israel is the world’s most “cruel and racist regime”… at a U.N. racism conference. Bunch of diplomats walk out. (From the Wall Street Journal)
3. Columbine, 10 years later. What happened, [...]
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Deadly Plane Crash outside Buffalo
1. Plane Crash outside Buffalo Kills 49 – 44 passengers, 4 crew, and one person on the ground are all victims when the plane hits a house five miles from the airport. The Plane was a twin engine turbo-prop commuter that took off from Newark. It’s been two and a half years since [...]
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Who will get Ted Kennedy’s seat?