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An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish. The report by the… Read more.
Based on the very popular James Bond films, one could be forgiven for thinking that practitioners of the dark art of espionage are licensed to kill. But this is just an enduring (and endearing) myth – at least insofar as those who work for Western governments are concerned. Indeed, nothing exposed how truly circumscribed spies… Read more.
Pelosi: They mislead us all the time. Reporter: Madam Speaker, just to be clear, you’re accusing the CIA of lying to you… Pelosi: Yes. (Pelosi on May 20 insisting the CIA never told her that its agents were waterboarding, i.e. torturing, terror suspects.) Of course, accusing CIA agents of lying is rather like accusing them of spying … duh!… Read more.
Alas, the same people who insisted that Barack Obama was too passive, naive and inexperienced to defeat the ruthless team of Bill and Hillary Clinton (or the war-hero John McCain) are the ones now insisting that his choice to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, is too passive, naive and inexperienced to lead this agency “in a time of… Read more.
