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• WPP Agency Takes Funding From CIA Investment Unit

  BNET - 2009-10-21

  WPP's Visible Technologies unit has taken investment funding from In-Q-Tel, the investment fund of the CIA. Visible Technologies is developing tools that can scan social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and scour meaningful data from them. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: CIA, Social Media, WPP Agency, WPP, Visible Technologies, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• BIGresearch Analysis Shows Changing Tides in Race for the White House

  - 2008-10-14

  The crumbling economy appears to be boosting sentiments for change as Obama's Net Promotor Score* NPS increased 5 points since last month, according to BIGresearch's ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) October Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey of 8,117 respondents. While McCain's NPS decreased month over month, Obama made gains among both Democrats...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, FINANCE, Government, Republican, White House

• Kissinger reportedly covered up PLO assassination of ambassador

  - 2008-09-29

  "Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat's PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan." So reported the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on September 1, 2008. According...

  Tags: ambassador, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Leadership

• Teen in firearms case had Camp David map

  - 2008-08-07

  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police investigating a teenager accused of bombmaking and weapons violations found a map of Camp David with a presidential motorcade route in his home, a Montgomery County prosecutor said. Collin McKenzie-Gude, 18, of Bethesda, also had a document that appears to describe how to kill...

  Tags: attorney, CIA, FINANCE, Investment

• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, CIA, director, FINANCE, Government, Investment, president, White House

• McClellan Book Wrong on Plame Leak

  - 2008-06-09

  In Scott McClellan's purported tell-all memoir of his trials as President George W. Bush's press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage's role leaking to me Valerie Flame's identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic version of the Plame affair, in keeping with the...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Investment, secretary

• Americans Weigh in on Which Presidential Candidate They Are Likely to Promote

  - 2008-05-08

  It is said that by using the Net Promoter® Score* NPS, a company's future can be determined. Can a presidential hopeful's future be determined using the same principle? BIGresearch ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) asked more than 8,000 respondents in their May Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey to rank the candidates...

  Tags: Benefits, CIA, Democrat, E-mail, FINANCE, Republican

• 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...

  Tags: agency, CIA, FINANCE, Gibson, Iraq, Merck & Co. Inc., Obama, officer, payroll, Taxes, Washington Post Co.

• This week's platinum picks

  - 2008-04-25

  Charlie Wilson's War ***1/2 out of four, 2007, Universal, rated R, $30 Now 76, director Mike Nichols still rocks, though also credit Aaron Sorkin's script for blueprinting last year's smartest comedy. Back story: Wilson Tom Hanks was the...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE

• BIGresearch: Consumers Rate Presidential Candidates by Likelihood to Recommend to a Friend

  - 2008-04-18

  The Net Promoter® Score* NPS has been called the "ultimate question" that can determine a company's future. So what happens when you apply the NPS to the 3 major presidential candidates? BIGresearch ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) did just that by asking more than 8,000 respondents to their April Consumer Intentions...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, E-mail, FINANCE, MARKETING, Republican