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• Letters to the editor

  - 2008-10-14

  Cut the strings Pat Roberts had been chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for some time, including 2003 when Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, was outed by the White House, most likely by Vice President Dick Cheney. That act was a felony. It degraded the CIA by...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, ROBERT

• CIA leak columnist retires after 'dire' tumor diagnosis

  - 2008-08-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — Conservative US columnist Robert Novak, whose unmasking of a covert CIA agent sparked a political and legal firestorm, said Monday he was retiring after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Novak, who announced he was suffering from the tumor late last month, said the medical prognosis...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, CIA, columnist, Washington

• FILM OF THE DAY; The Good Shepherd

  - 2008-07-24

  Robert De Niro directs and stars in this spy drama exploring the secret history of the CIA. The film focuses on the personal and professional struggles of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, whose membership of a secret society while studying at Yale leads him into a career with the government's intelligence...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, drama, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University

• FILM OF THE DAY; The Good Shepherd

  - 2008-07-24

  Robert De Niro directs and stars in this spy drama exploring the secret history of the CIA. The film focuses on the personal and professional struggles of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, whose membership of a secret society while studying at Yale leads him into a career with the government's intelligence...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, drama, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University

• The Culinary Institute of America

  - 2008-02-04

  Lou Jones and Jennifer Purcell have been named associate deans for restaurant education at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. Jones will supervise operations of the kitchens at the school's four restaurants, Purcell Samuel Boswell will be responsible for the front-of-the-house of those restaurants. Jones joined the...

  Tags: America, CAREER, CIA

• 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...

  Tags: agency, CAREER, CIA, directorate, leadership, MARKETING

• 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...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, agency, CAREER, CIA, director, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, technique, torture

• Fortified Holdings Appoints Former CIA Information Chief Alan Wade to Advisory Board

  - 2008-01-29

  Fortified Holdings Corp. (OTCBB: FFDH) ("Fortified" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the immediate appointment of Alan Wade to the corporate Advisory Board. Mr. Wade retired from federal service in 2005 after a thirty-five-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired as the agency's Chief Information Officer,...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, director, security

• Candidates & moviegoers

  - 2008-01-29

  REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC candidates who survive the February 5 delegate nomination marathon should be ready to confront a hidden danger to their campaigns--movies. Hillary Clinton, for example, should be concerned about Primary Colors (1998), a thinly disguised portrait of her and Bill. Based on a book by Joe Klein, the...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, Governor, nomination, torture

• Give 'Bull' Durham a chance

  - 2008-01-04

  Was it a crime for the CIA to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations of two suspected terrorists? The search for a speedy answer got a boost Wednesday when Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed a tough career federal prosecutor -- John Durham, a veteran from Connecticut known...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, counsel, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Justice