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• Bush orders overhaul of US intelligence

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush has given his national intelligence director greater powers to manage rival US spy agencies as part of an overhaul driven by past intelligence failures, White House documents released Thursday show. The authorities were spelled out in revised executive order 13355, which...

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• The underbelly of intelligence

  - 2008-05-27

  Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing By Tim Shorrock Simon & Schuster, 437 pages, $27 --- U.S. government agencies that collect "intelligence" (the word carries an ironic ring because so much...

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• Tilting at windmills

  - 2008-05-01

  What worries me about Obama I Why didn't Barack Obama mention the military option in his otherwise eloquent call to service at Wesleyan? Why didn't he show respect for the people of West Virginia and Kentucky by doing more than token campaigning there? These are troubling questions for an...

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• CIA set up 12 bogus companies mostly in Europe after 9/11: report

  - 2008-02-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency set up 12 bogus companies in Europe and other parts of the world in the hope of penetrating Islamic organizations, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday. But citing current and former...

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• CIA used waterboarding on three Al-Qaeda detainees: chief

  - 2008-02-05

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA director Michael Hayden for the first time admitted publicly Tuesday that the agency had used "waterboarding," or simulated drowning, in interrogations of three top Al-Qaeda detainees nearly five years ago. The technique, which critics say is tantamount to torture, was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,...

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• Opportunities at the CIA

  - 2008-02-01

  THE BLACK COLLEGIAN offers a glimpse of what it's like to work at the Central Intelligence Agency through interviews with Sue Bromley, Deputy Director for Intelligence; Peter Clement, Deputy Director for Intelligence for Strategic Programs; Gertie Starks, Director for Management, Leadership, and Diversity Programs MLDP, Directorate of Intelligence; and Brian...

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• US has used waterboarding in past: ex-spy chief

  - 2008-01-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — Former US spy chief John Negroponte admitted that the United States has used a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding but does not anymore, according to a published interview Monday. Negroponte, who currently serves as deputy secretary of state, told the National Journal that the country...

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• Hunt On For More Tapes

  - 2008-01-21

  The CIA has launched an internal search for more audio- or videotapes depicting interrogations of suspected terrorists, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The hunt is part of the agency’s response to several investigations—by the Justice Department, Congress and the CIA’s own inspector general—into the destruction in...

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• A Scramble At The CIA To Lawyer Up

  - 2008-01-14

  Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed agency employees scrambling to find lawyers. To lead the probe, the A.G. named John Durham, a hard-nosed veteran prosecutor who is assembling a team of deputies and FBI...

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• Criminal investigation ordered into destruction of CIA tapes

  - 2008-01-03

  WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced Wednesday that he has ordered a criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the use of controversial interrogation techniques on sus- pected al-Qaida terrorists at secret overseas prisons. While rejecting a leading civil rights group's...

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