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    * Cuban military exercise braces for US attack  Nov 23, 2009
    He told the official Granma newspaper that the Bastion-2009 exercises will raise the deterrent capacity to prevent a military confrontation, under the principle that there is no better way to win a war than by avoiding it ... In April that year, a 1,400-strong force of CIA-trained Cuban exiles invaded Cubas Bay of Pigs X a disastrous venture fatally compromised by leaky intelligence and poor execution ... In its aftermath the CIA hatched many failed plots to remove the elder Cuban... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew into the Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington Sunday, starting a high-profile visit to the United States.• Indian PM hopes U.S. to "stay involved in Afghanistan"  Nov 23, 2009
    ISLAMABAD, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday asked Leon E. Panetta, the chief of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to share the American strategy with Pakistan, official said. U.S. President Barack Obama is set to announce shortly the new Afghan strategy, which will also include deployment more U.S. troops as well as an exit strategy. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Obama, PM Manmohan to seal anti-terror pact  Nov 23, 2009
    Details of the pact are not being disclosed yet, but such was the importance of the agreement that CIA Director Leon Panetta flew down to New Delhi last week to discuss details with his Indian counterparts before the fine print could be drawn up ... The Pakistani handlers, who Indian and US officials believe to be current or former military-intelligence personnel, are being sought by New Delhi and Washington, even as Islamabad continues to shield them through legal technicalities. (India Times, India)

    In Afghanistan, fighting legacy of corruption  Nov 23, 2009
    Sitting in his cramped storefront shop on a crowded street here, Safi used a calculator to add up all the bribes he paid to government officials during the recent sale of a home. Safi said he gave $200 to a clerk at the district office, $3,000 to be shared among three workers at the central municipal office and $500 to a Finance Ministry official ... It makes it difficult for the United States to take the high road publicly against the Taliban when it is associated with a government that is... (USA Today)

    Attorney: 9/11 defendants want platform to air views  Nov 23, 2009
    I/M LIST INGBY The Hear--ear on 11/22/2009 at 18:35As far as Obama and Holder are concerned, they don't care what these Murderers say, trying these terrorists in N.Y., is a means to an end, and that 'end' is going after the Bush administration and the CIA. In fact, some of the Anti-American vile that will spew out of these terrorists will sound all too familiar to our president ... A bill that would allow an audit of the Federal Reserve passed the House Financial Services Committee yesterday. (TheHill.com)

    Pakistan to US: Don't surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban  Nov 23, 2009
    But Pakistani officials worry that thousands of additional American soldiers and Marines would send Taliban forces retreating into Pakistan, where they're not welcome. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's office said Friday that he told visiting CIA Director Leon Panetta of "Pakistan's concerns relating to the possible surge of the US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan which may entail negative implications for the situation in Baluchistan," the Pakistani province that borders Afghanistan to the... (Christian Science Monitor -- World)

    Holder: Court Will Convict KSM  Nov 23, 2009
    In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to defend his indefensible decision to provide Khalid Sheik Mohammad and four other 9/11 terrorists with all of the rights afforded to American citizens by putting them on trial in our federal court system -- mere blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City ... That if we caught Bin Laden tomorrow, there are mixed theories and we couldn t turn him over to the CIA, the FBI, or military intelligence for an... (Human Events Online)

    Special Guest  Nov 23, 2009
    Tonight, a special hour with the best-selling author Vince Flynn ... We've got kind of a special hour I found long time ago that the only people that will really tell you the truth on what could happen, and the only people that really know are fiction authors ... You know, the simple things like the Marxists that happen to be around the White House, the massive corruption with the people in Washington that are supposed to be representing us, and especially, when times are these tough as they are... (Fox News)

    US shares info with India on Headley's ISI links  Nov 22, 2009
    The disclosure came when National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan held talks with CIA chief Leon Panetta in New Delhi on Saturday, reliable sources said ... The two officials also discussed finer details of a counter-terror plot that is expected to be signed after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with US President Barack Obama in the White House Tuesday ... The CIA chief also indicated that Obama will announce a major troops surge in Afghanistan. (India Times, India)

    We need new Latin American policy  Nov 22, 2009
    This reservoir of good will stands in stark contrast to the "anti-Yanqui" rhetoric displayed by Latin American leaders who have been bought and paid for by the oligarchs on the right or the socialists of the left ... Its my personal opinion that when you add up all the expenditures we make in Latin American countries and along our border with Mexico -- by the Drug Enforcement Agency, CIA, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the check... (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)

    Google must stop snooping on us  Nov 22, 2009
    While provoking cynical sniggers among financial analysts, it sat well with the company s innocent, flower-power idealism and with the staggering ambition it set itself, to organise the world s information and make it universally accessible and useful ... But if that information has a chance of landing in the hands of the CIA, or of our own snoops, then we should be alarmed ... Find a local independent financial advisor. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    'Only a matter of time before terrorists use weapons of mass destruction'  Nov 22, 2009
    In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Crumpton, who previously spent 20 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency, warned yesterday that the "war on terror" was likely to last for decades. "This threat has changed the way we will fight wars in the future," he said. (Yahoo News -- Biological and Chemical Weapons)

    Pakistan urges U.S. to share Afghanistan plans  Nov 22, 2009
    Kim Gamel, Associated Press ... Meanwhile, a suspected U.S. missile strike killed eight militants in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region ... American officials generally do not acknowledge the unpopular attacks. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Ignorance is no excuse  Nov 22, 2009
    The premise for this war was not security but politics - and it is our politicians who should be in the dock ... The politicians who authorised the war, at a time when to stand against it posed a political risk, say they were tricked ... Sooner or later a hopeless minister or hapless civil servant, possibly even the head of the CIA, might be sacked. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)

    As Manmohan heads for US, expectations must be realistic  Nov 22, 2009
    His advice: "India will have to formulate its own strategy vis-a-vis its neighbourhood devoid of any unrealistic expectations from Washington, despite the perceived closeness. One reason for that strategic diffidence? Both US and Indian officials who previewed the visit with this correspondent on background offered the same reason: India is too big and too independent to toe an American line. In Andersons words: "India remains committed to the doctrine of strategic autonomy, and it will... (India Times, India)

    Barbara P. Williams  Nov 22, 2009
    She moved to Washington, D.C., where she was employed with the OSS, the forerunner of todays CIA. She worked for the famous Wild Bill Donovan, the OSSs first director ... Barbara also enjoyed doing crossword puzzles and visits from her family, especially her grandsons Jake and Walker ... Be aware, in accordance with the Communications Decency Act and provisions upheld in judicial appeal, that you are responsible for comments posted on this Web site. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)

    Read the story  Nov 22, 2009
    Fort Hood officials didn't immediately return a call about the hearing ... Meanwhile, a Democratic senator says there may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or 00004000 military officials to Hasan before he went on his rampage ... Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said Friday after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate whether those and other e-mails involving Hasan were handled properly. (CBS News -- Evening News)

    * Lithuanian war on terror prison in the spotlight  Nov 22, 2009
    About 20km from the Baltic states capital, Vilnius, a former riding school in the hamlet of Antaviliai purportedly hosted a secret CIA facility in 2004 and 2005 ... In August, citing unnamed former intelligence officials and logs of flights between Afghanistan and Lithuania, the US channel ABC reported that the former Soviet state had hosted a CIA facility ... Citing unnamed Lithuanian officials and a former American intelligence operative, it spotlighted the Antaviliai site. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Circling sharks smell U.S. blood  Nov 22, 2009
    We may put on trial former CIA interrogators, while we give civil trials and full American legal protection to the terrorist detainees who planned the 9/11 attacks ... The president through conciliation and concession -- not to mention constant talk -- is trying to superficially restore the influence we once earned by virtue of our economic power and self-confidence in our exceptional past and singular values ... The United States needs to re-establish itself as financially credible and... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)

    Fort Hood suspect ordered held until court-martial  Nov 22, 2009
    Galligan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the judge also ordered Hasan to pretrial confinement, which usually means jail, until his court-martial ... Officials at Fort Hood, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Worth, declined to comment ... Hasan has been under guard at the hospital, Galligan said, and military officials have not told him how the pretrial confinement status will change anything. (Longview Daily News, WA)

    U.S. agent for Cuba gets life in prison  Nov 22, 2009
    Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist ... Prosecutors say the Myerses agreed to serve as clandestine agents for Cuba a year later, after a Cuban contact urged Kendall Myers to seek a job -- and top-secret security clearance -- at the State Department or the CIA. Myers got a job and top-secret clearance at the State Department ... I... (The Palm Beach Post)

    New twist on government control of data: use of subpoenas  Nov 22, 2009
    Justice officials have asked a court to make the ACLU return a classified document ... They say it's denied the public access to crucial policy debates about the fight against terrorism as well as the way the war in Iraq has been waged ... "It's an unprecedented situation," says Larry Berman, a professor of political science at the University of California at Davis, who is suing the CIA for access to documents from the Johnson administration. (Yahoo News -- Privacy Issues)

    CIA chief meets top Indian official to discuss terrorism  Nov 22, 2009
    NEW DELHI, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Visiting chief of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta Saturday met Indian National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan here to discuss terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan and its impact on India and South Asia, highly placed government sources said on Saturday ... "Panetta is known to have expressed America's aim of the sharing India-centric real time intelligence between the CIA and Indian intelligence, apart from discussing issues... (Xinhuanet, China)

    Pakistan to send more troops to tribal area  Nov 22, 2009
    He said during the visit of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief to Pakistan, the government shared its reservations on various matters including the supply of rocket launchers and other weapons from Afghanistan to terrorists in Pakistan. Malik said that he hoped the U.S. would take cognizance of the situation and take play its role to stop the supply of weapons into Pakistan. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Story of an American Detained Overseas  Nov 22, 2009
    I do not condone anything they do," Hamdan says. The FBI won't say why it was interested in Hamdan over the years or why it sent a pair of counter-terrorism agents to visit him after his move to the UAE just three weeks before his arrest there. For the record, the FBI says that it never requested the UAE detain him. The CIA has declined to comment. The State Department provided consular services during Hamdan's captivity, as it would for any American detained overseas, but they would not... (CBS News)

    Italy Arrests 2 In Mumbai Attack Probe  Nov 22, 2009
    BRESCIA, Italy, Nov, 21, 2009 ... Police images of two men identified as Mohammad Yaqub Janjua, 60 (left), and his son, Aamer Yaqub Janjua, 31, both of Pakistan, were arrested November 21, 2009 in an early morning raid in Brescia, Italy, where they managed a money transfer agency ... The two were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, where they managed a money transfer agency, police in the northern Italian city said. (CBS News)

    Cuba: Military exercise braces island for US attack...  Nov 22, 2009
    In its aftermath the Central Intelligence Agency hatched many failed plots to remove the elder Cuban leader, now 83 and still head of the Cuban Communist Party. A US trade embargo on Cuba begun in 1962 remains in place despite calls by every country in the Americas to have it lifted. (The Drudge Report)

    In New York, Flanked by Lawyers  Nov 22, 2009
    "I'm not scared of what (self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) would say at trial," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee as he defended his decision to prosecute Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 planners in a federal criminal court ... As former CIA Director George Tenet wrote in his book, "At the Center of the Storm," when CIA officials first interrogated Mohammed in 2003, he defiantly told them, "I'll talk to you guys after I get to New York and... (Townhall.com)

    Pakistan: 8 militants killed in reported US strike  Nov 21, 2009
    MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region. The attack came hours before CIA director Leon Panetta held talks Friday with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the capital, a statement from Gilani's office said ... The CIA is believed to be behind the more than... (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)

    Another Look at the JFK Assasination: Did the Mob Do It?  Nov 21, 2009
    On the anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, Discovery is airing a special that claims that organized crime took out a hit on president;and managed to get away with it ... The hit came at a time when the CIA was working with the mob on a number of plots to kill Fidel Castro ... By tying their hit to the questionable government activity regarding Cuba, the mob correctly figured that any real investigation of the Kennedy assassination would be buried by Federal law enforcement for years,... (Multichannel News)

    JFK Assassination Reports on Discov...  Nov 21, 2009
    tracks the relationship between organized crime, the U.S. Justice Department, the CIA and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Maria boss Carlos Marcello, who controlled mob activities in Texas and Louisiana, has been suspected in having a role in the Kennedy assassination for a long time. (Suite101.com)

    Palin will sign books during Thanksgiving visit to Tri-Cities  Nov 21, 2009
    She plans to be signing copies of her book, Going Rogue, in Orlando, Florida, on Nov. 24, according to the schedule on the social networking site ... I m looking forward to seeing everyone in every stop on the tour, but I m especially looking forward to meeting our brave men and women in uniform at Fort Hood ... I am humbled to be able to join the larger effort called Community Response to 11/5, which was established by the Central Texas-Fort Hood Chapter of the Association of the US Army... (Longview Daily News, WA)

    A decision that Obama may come to regret  Nov 21, 2009
    We now know that Mohammed was waterboarded - subjected to simulated drowning - by his CIA interrogators a total of 183 times. The CIA claims it extracted vital information from Mohammed that prevented other terrorist attacks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Pakistan fearful of US Afghan strategy  Nov 21, 2009
    By Associated Press / November 21, 2009 ... Meanwhile, a suspected US missile strike killed eight militants in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region ... American officials generally do not acknowledge the unpopular attacks. (Boston Globe)

    CIA director in India, meets NSA  Nov 21, 2009
    NEW DELHI: CIA chief Leon E Panetta on Saturday met National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and discussed issues relating to the presence of terror groups in neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan and their impact on India ... The sister agency of the CIA in the US -- FBI -- is probing the role of US citizen David Headley and Pakistani- Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana in plotting terror strikes in the US and India. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Explosion Near Aid Office Wounds 1 in Pakistan  Nov 21, 2009
    The Pakistani concerns, raised by the prime minister during a meeting with visiting CIA director Leon Panetta, could pose another headache for President Barack Obama as he weighs military proposals to send 10,000 to 40,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year ... The U.S. Embassy declined to comment on the CIA director's visit to the country ... Pakistani officials have said in the past that they were worried that Obama's original surge of 21,000 troops this summer would lead to more... (Fox News)

    US officials say Taliban chief fled Quetta last month with `help of ISI` to avoid drone attacks  Nov 21, 2009
    US officials say Taliban chief fled Quetta last month with help of ISI to avoid drone attacks ... Two senior US intelligence officials and a former senior CIA officer told The Washington Times that Omar traveled to Karachi last month, adding that he inaugurated a new senior leadership council in the city ... The officials were quoted as saying that the ISI helped the Taliban leaders move from Quetta, where they were exposed to attacks by unmanned US drones. (Daily Times, Pakistan)

    Rules Differ for Palin at Military Bases  Nov 21, 2009
    The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg but bar reporters from interviewing her or her supporters on the post, officials said Thursday. At Fort Hood, meanwhile, officials say there will be no such limits ... Fort Hood officials reportedly view Palin as a private citizen, not a public official, and will thus allow troops and their family members to take pictures with her. (CBS News -- Politics)

    Truth on torture not a national secret: court  Nov 21, 2009
    LONDON: The High Court has flatly rejected claims by the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment of the British resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets ... In the sixth in a string of damning rulings, the High Court accused Mr Miliband of wanting to suppress information about CIA activities even though details had already been disclosed by the Obama Administration... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Is There a Palin Doctrine?  Nov 21, 2009
    But, let's take Bush 1 for "knowledge on even basic foreign-policy or domestic political issues" before elected to the U.S. Presidency : Vice President from 1981-1989, Yale graduate, Founded his own oil production company, House Representative appointed to the Ways and Means committee, UN Ambassador, Chief of the US Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, part time professor at Rice University,... (Slate)

    US's dalliance in Beijing is short-lived  Nov 21, 2009
    The tale already finds echo in a recent testimony by Milton Bearden, a former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Islamabad, to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The other regional players [read China] are busily setting the stage for exploitation of Afghanistan's natural resources, while the US remains bogged down with the war. This should change," Bearden said. (Asia Times Online)

    U.S. softens approach to Karzai  Nov 21, 2009
    When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance would pitch their host into a foul mood ... And halfway through a meal of lamb stew, chicken and rice, he looked across the table and said he had decided that the United States would be a "critical... (MSNBC -- International)

    Being Blatchford  Nov 21, 2009
    Notre Dame Official Athletic Site ... The Frozen Four showing established the Irish as a national presence, and for Blatchford, eclipsed the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) titles that he helped win during his freshman and junior seasons ... Blatchford's job search currently remains focused on the ice, although he has considered pursuing a career in law enforcement with the CIA or FBI if playing hockey at the next level doesn't work out. (Und.com)

    Pakistan wary ofU.S. Afghan war plan  Nov 21, 2009
    Meanwhile, a suspected U.S. missile strike killed eight militants in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region. American officials generally do not acknowledge the unpopular attacks ... The Pakistani concerns, raised by the prime minister during a meeting with visiting CIA director Leon Panetta, could pose another headache for President Barack Obama as he... (MSNBC -- International)

    US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 842  Nov 21, 2009
    The Associated Press Text Size ... There were also four CIA officer deaths and two military civilian deaths ... Don't use racial slurs. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)

    I-Team: The JFK Conspiracy Theory  Nov 21, 2009
    Nearly 50 years after the assassination of President John Kennedy, seven out of 10 Americans say they do not believe the official explanation that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone ... Garrison focused on a CIA connected New Orleans businessman named Clay Shaw ... His prosecution of Shaw was portrayed in Oliver Stone's controversial movie, JFK. Shaw was not convicted, in large part because of overt interference from the CIA, including a smear campaign against Garrison and the infiltration of his... (KLAS-TV.com, NV)

    Officials: Pentagon Probed Finances  Nov 21, 2009
    The Defense Department has used a long-standing authority to acquire the personal financial records of American citizens in military-related criminal and other investigations as part of an expansion of the Pentagon's gathering of counterterrorism intelligence at home, officials said yesterday ... The CIA has long had similar "noncompulsory" authority, although intelligence officials said that such requests are rare and tend to relate to espionage investigations of the CIA's own officials ... The... (Yahoo News -- Privacy Issues)

    No comments posted.  Nov 21, 2009
    TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA ... By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press Writer ... (AP) -- The CIA has a new commercial aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans for careers with the agency. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)

    Officials: Pentagon Probed Finances  Nov 20, 2009
    The Defense Department has used a long-standing authority to acquire the personal financial records of American citizens in military-related criminal and other investigations as part of an expansion of the Pentagon's gathering of counterterrorism intelligence at home, officials said yesterday ... The CIA has long had similar "noncompulsory" authority, although intelligence officials said that such requests are rare and tend to relate to espionage investigations of the CIA's own officials ... The... (Yahoo News -- Privacy Issues)

    Taming the mafia state  Nov 20, 2009
    American officials say he has just six months to tackle what one calls Afghanistan s mafia state ... Such wastage, however, is at least lawful, unlike the Afghan government s practice of selling jobs to officials who then repay themselves through extortion ... The hope is that locking up some big drug dealers and corrupt officials will show that not everyone is immune. (The Economist)

    Nuclear fallout rocks Pakistan  Nov 20, 2009
    Pakistan has reacted strongly to an article in The New Yorker by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh on November 16, "Defending the arsenal", in which he claimed that Pakistan was discussing "understandings" with the US that could even see specialists take sophisticated nuclear triggers out of the country to prevent them ... The administration of President Barack Obama is clearly deeply concerned over the safety of Pakistan's weapons, especially after militants last month entered the Pakistani... (Asia Times Online)

    The Real Price of Trying KSM  Nov 20, 2009
    The defense lawyers obtained graphic photos of an emaciated Lindh as well as confidential and internal Justice Department e-mails that seriously undermined Attorney General John Ashcroft's public statements about the legitimacy of the interrogation ... Good criminal defense attorneys are seldom deterred by futility, so it's reasonable to expect that KSM's lawyers will make all the arguments there are to make: They'll allege a violation of KSM's right to a speedy trial, claiming that the years he... (Slate)

    Barbara P. Williams  Nov 20, 2009
    She moved to Washington, D.C., where she was employed with the OSS, the forerunner of todays CIA. She worked for the famous Wild Bill Donovan, the OSSs first director ... Barbara also enjoyed doing crossword puzzles and visits from her family, especially her grandsons Jake and Walker ... Be aware, in accordance with the Communications Decency Act and provisions upheld in judicial appeal, that you are responsible for comments posted on this Web site. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)

    In tough economy, students consider government jobs  Nov 20, 2009
    A number of other government employees attended the event, including representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Employees from the FDIC and the Department of Commerce held programs at the Olin Business School. (Washington University Student Life, MO)

    ANALYSIS-Pakistan worries over new U.S. Afghan strategy  Nov 20, 2009
    Those fears were raised recently in talks in Islamabad with visiting U.S. national security adviser General James Jones, a senior Pakistani government official said. "We have concerns that Taliban may try to cross into Pakistan if violence increased after the new deployment," said the official who is involved in Afghan policy ... Responding to Pakistani concerns of a spill-over, U.S. officials said reinforcements would not open new fronts but would focus on securing populated areas, the official... (AlertNet)

    The Fall of Greg Craig  Nov 20, 2009
    Interviews with two dozen current and former officials show that Obama's public decision to reverse himself and fight the release of the photographs signaled a behind-the-scenes turning point in his young presidency ... On Nov. 13, Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled plans to try Guant;namo Bay detainees in federal courts, as preferred by liberals, but he also announced he would try other suspected terrorists using extrajudicial proceedings out of Bush's playbook ... Revolt of the CIA... (Time.com)

    US suspects investigated over Mumbai attack  Nov 20, 2009
    NEW DELHI: Indian authorities are investigating whether two men recently arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges had a role in last November's attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 170 people, government officials here said ... Mr Headley also allegedly posed as a Jew to visit one of the other eventual targets, Chabad House, home to an ultra-orthodox Jewish centre, said a high-ranking official involved in the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity ... The news comes as the FBI and CIA... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Google must stop snooping on us  Nov 20, 2009
    While provoking cynical sniggers among financial analysts, it sat well with the company s innocent, flower-power idealism and with the staggering ambition it set itself, to organise the world s information and make it universally accessible and useful ... But if that information has a chance of landing in the hands of the CIA, or of our own snoops, then we should be alarmed ... News International associated websites. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Panel: Chinese Spies Stealing U.S. Secrets  Nov 20, 2009
    The commission, set up by Congress in 2000 to advise, investigate and report on U.S.-China affairs, said U.S. officials believe Chinese spying is "growing in scale, intensity and sophistication." ... MMIX The Associated Press ... But of course, as soon as these Chinese or Indi immigrants or students have money to pay the over-rated universities (displacing a lot of Amercian kids and cutting their chances to get a well paid job) everybody is happy or what about the cool factor to hire them at... (CBS News -- World)

    In-Q-Tel backs cyberthreat protection for intell community  Nov 20, 2009
    CIA-founded company invests in FireEye, an anti-malware manufacturer ... In-Q-Tel, the CIA-founded private investment firm for technology innovation, is broadening its reach to protect the intelligence community from malware and other cyber attacks ... Financial details were not reported. (FCW.com)

    Circling Sharks Smell American Blood  Nov 20, 2009
    We may put on trial former CIA interrogators, while we give civil trials and full American legal protection to the terrorist detainees who planned the 9/11 attacks. Page. (Investors Business Daily)

    U.S. recovers $2.4B in fraud settlements  Nov 20, 2009
    4B in fraud settlements - Atlanta Business Chronicle. for free extra services. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)

    TV Ad Recruits Arab-Americans to CIA  Nov 20, 2009
    The CIA has a new commercial aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans for careers with the agency ... The commercial ends with the line: "Careers in the CIA." ... The CIA plans to debut the commercial on mainstream and ethnic TV stations and Web sites within the next few months. (Newsmax)

    Musharraf quizzed on Bhutto death  Nov 20, 2009
    Investigators quiz Musharraf over Bhutto assassination - CNN.com. Investigators quiz Musharraf over Bhutto assassination. (CNN -- World)

    Holder's True Motive  Nov 20, 2009
    This is an excruciatingly awful decision that no hanging judge talk of "the ultimate penalty" can perfume ... Location: PR Reply # 2 Date: Nov 20, 2009 - 5:54 AM EST OJ Redux Can anyone think of a reason to have this Circus in NYC, other than to try the CIA and George Bush. (Townhall.com)

    Ignorance is no excuse  Nov 20, 2009
    The premise for this war was not security but politics - and it is our politicians who should be in the dock ... The politicians who authorised the war, at a time when to stand against it posed a political risk, say they were tricked ... Sooner or later a hopeless minister or hapless civil servant, possibly even the head of the CIA, might be sacked. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)

    New twist on government control of data: use of subpoenas  Nov 20, 2009
    Justice officials have asked a court to make the ACLU return a classified document ... They say it's denied the public access to crucial policy debates about the fight against terrorism as well as the way the war in Iraq has been waged ... "It's an unprecedented situation," says Larry Berman, a professor of political science at the University of California at Davis, who is suing the CIA for access to documents from the Johnson administration. (Yahoo News -- Privacy Issues)

    Leahy: No need to interrogate bin Laden  Nov 20, 2009
    If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday ... "The big problem I have is you're criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we have mixed theories and couldn't turn him over to the CIA, the FBI, military intelligence for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now you're saying he's subject to criminal court in the United States and you're confusing the people fighting this war,"... (TheHill.com)

    No comments posted.  Nov 20, 2009
    TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA ... By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press Writer ... (AP) -- The CIA has a new commercial aimed at recruiting Arab-Americans for careers with the agency. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)

    Lithuania: ABC News Report 'Not Helping' Our Image  Nov 20, 2009
    CIA Secret Prison Exposed - ABC News ... A top official said that a report by ABC News that it had discovered a secret prison in a former riding academy near Vilnius was damaging to his country's reputation ... Outside Lithuania the CIA used a former barn to interrogate al Qaeda members. (ABC News)

    'Only a matter of time before terrorists use weapons of mass destruction'  Nov 20, 2009
    In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Crumpton, who previously spent 20 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency, warned yesterday that the "war on terror" was likely to last for decades. "This threat has changed the way we will fight wars in the future," he said. (Yahoo News -- Biological and Chemical Weapons)

    Lithuanian officials open new inquiry into secret CIA prisons  Nov 20, 2009
    VILNIUS, Lithuania - Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country ... Fresh reports of covert CIA flights carrying prisoners from Afghanistan to Lithuania, as well as the revelation that US contractors built a high-security complex at the edge of a forest near Vilnius, have added to the suspicions ... Many Lithuanian officials said they remain unconvinced that their country s secret services... (Boston Globe)

    Montana kids healthy, but poor  Nov 20, 2009
    26, according to the 2009 CIA World Fact Book ... 2008 Associated Press. (Montana Standard, MT)

    Lithuania horse club was CIA 'black site': Report  Nov 19, 2009
    Lithuanian horse club was CIA 'black site' - US - World - The Times of India ... Lithuanian horse club was CIA 'black site ... WASHINGTON: Controversy over secret CIA prisons in Europe rose again on Wednesday with the allegations that an upscale Lithuanian horseback riding school was secretly used to interrogate al-Qaida suspects. (India Times, India)

    'What the Dog Saw,' by Malcolm Gladwell  Nov 19, 2009
    Max Winter, Special to The Chronicle ... Certain characteristic quirks of Gladwell's essays appear and re-appear here, shuffled into different combinations: a crisp physical description of the subject ("Ilon Specht has ... lipstick the color of maraschino cherries"), a description of the person's work space ("Strassmann's office is in the basement of a converted stable"), a rhetorical question ("Isn't it an advantage that the FBI doesn't think like the CIA?"). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 841  Nov 19, 2009
    The Associated Press Text Size ... There were also four CIA officer deaths and two military civilian deaths ... Don't use racial slurs. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)

    Political Grapevine  Nov 19, 2009
    - Special Report w/ Bret Baier - FOXNews ... Some things that are younger than the West Virginia Democrat: sliced bread, the band-aid, the CIA; Velcro, women's suffrage, the Lincoln Memorial, commercial air travel, penicillin, Social Security and the television ... you don't want to miss it tonight on Special Report at 6pm EST on FNC. (Fox News)

    TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA  Nov 19, 2009
    By JEFF KAROUB / Associated Press Writer ... It's an inviting, if idealized, dinner party scene from any Arab-American home - at least that's what the CIA seeks to convey in the first television commercial of 00004000 its kind ... "They're worth protecting. "Careers in the CIA." The commercial, which the agency plans 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. Until now, its print,... (Anchorage Daily News)

    Vicarious Conversation: In the Company of Fools  Nov 19, 2009
    Yet (a) you are investigating, with intended prosecution, the CIA interrogators who waterboarded 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, and (b) you have decided to try Khalid and key cronies in civil courts in New York -- creating a security nightmare and, for al-Qaeda, an intelligence bonanza ... You and your congressional cronies are pushing the nation toward adoption of an inter-generational swindle similar to Social Security, wherein politicians are substituting their uninformed choices for... (Townhall.com)

    'Only a matter of time before terrorists use weapons of mass destruction'  Nov 19, 2009
    In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Crumpton, who previously spent 20 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency, warned yesterday that the "war on terror" was likely to last for decades. "This threat has changed the way we will fight wars in the future," he said. (Yahoo News -- Biological and Chemical Weapons)

    Costco cutting Coca-Cola  Nov 19, 2009
    for free extra services. Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 3:43pm EST. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)

    Appalachian Bancshares board suspends CEO  Nov 19, 2009
    Appalachian Bancshares directors suspend CEO, two officers - Atlanta Business Chronicle. for free extra services. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)

    Amelia Island Plantation files for bankruptcy  Nov 19, 2009
    for free extra services. Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 2:58pm EST. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)

    GM bailout costs each taxpayer $12,200  Nov 19, 2009
    for free extra services. Atlanta Business Chronicle. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)

    Giuliani isnt hobbled by consistency on terrorists  Nov 19, 2009
    Where is the racial angle to this opinion. Everything has a racial angle because we are all racists ... Rummy didn t dither when he stood like a stone wall, refusing to to attack simply because the CIA was in charge. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

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