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• Pitt steals the laughs

  - 2008-10-17

  BURN AFTER READING (15, 95 mins) Comedy/Romance. George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins. Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen. ***** AFTER the agonising tension and brutality of their Oscar-winning opus No Country For Old Men, writerdirectors Joel and Ethan Coen return...

  Tags: CIA, INTERNET, laugh

• CIA used Swiss to thwart foreign nuclear programs: report

  - 2008-08-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Central Intelligence Agency recruited a family of Swiss engineers to help it thwart the Libyan and Iranian nuclear programs as well as an underground supply network of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday. The...

  Tags: CIA, INTERNET, Iran, Libya, NETWORKING

• Journalist submits to waterboarding

  - 2008-07-02

  NEW YORK AFP — British-American writer Christopher Hitchens voluntarily submitted to waterboarding and concluded that the controversial interrogation technique used by the CIA is torture, he said in a magazine article published Wednesday. Hitchens said in the Vanity Fair article that he contacted members of the US special forces...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, torture

• US blames oversight for not revealing terror suspect flights

  - 2008-02-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States admitted for the first time Thursday it used British soil to transfer terror suspects but said the two cases five years ago had not surfaced until now because of recording errors. The British government -- a key US ally that has always denied...

  Tags: CIA, Government, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, U.S., Washington

• CIA report warned of nuclear -armed Spain in 1974

  - 2008-01-18

  MADRID AFP — The CIA feared that Spain's military dictator Francisco Franco planned to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s, according to a recently declassified report. But only in an unlikely set of circumstances, including the policies of a post-Franco government, would the country acquire nuclear weapons capability, the...

  Tags: CIA, Government, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Spain

• THE HEAT INDEX; Weekly rating (0-10) of sizzle and fizzle.(MediaWorks)

  - 2007-11-12

  10 a'House' Hugh Laurie continues to draw 'em in with his curmudgeonly-doctor act, posting some of the highest ratings for last week's CIA mission episode. 5 Picket Lines The hottest star spotting around last week, with Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Tina Fey, and cast members...

  Tags: CIA, INTERNET, MARKETING

• CIA: No FOIA Fee for Bloggers

  - 2007-11-01

  Bloggers seeking information from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA most likely won't have to pay for it. Per new CIA rules that define them as part of the news media, bloggers making Freedom of Information Act FOIA requests to the agency will get them processed for free. Professional journalists have...

  Tags: agency, blogger, Blogging, CIA, INTERNET, MARKETING

• CQ Inks Deal with David Corn

  - 2007-08-07

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Janet Donovan, +1-202-822-9318 office, +1-202-904-1035 cell, ceiinfo@erols.com, for Congressional Quarterly Inc. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressional Quarterly Inc., the nation's premier provider of news, analysis and information on Congress, politics and public policy, today announced it has signed a deal with veteran political editor and writer...

  Tags: blog, Blogging, CIA, INTERNET, MARKETING, U.S. Congress, Washington, Web

• Cybersurf expands free high speed internet service area with the launch of CIA Home Phone Premium over DSL.

  - 2007-07-10

  M2 PRESSWIRE-10 July 2007-Cybersurf Corp.: Cybersurf expands free high speed internet service area with the launch of CIA Home Phone Premium over DSLC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09072007 Calgary, Alberta CANADA - Cybersurf Corp. (CY - TSX Venture), ("Cybersurf", "CIA" or the...

  Tags: Canada, CIA, Cybersurf, DSL, INTERNET, NETWORKING, phone, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Cybersurf launches home phone service with free high speed cable internet in Barrie and Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Saint-Jerome, Quebec.

  - 2007-06-01

  M2 PRESSWIRE-1 June 2007-Cybersurf Corp.: Cybersurf launches home phone service with free high speed cable internet in Barrie and Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Saint-Jerome, QuebecC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31052007 Calgary, Alberta CANADA - Cybersurf Corp. (CY - TSX Venture), ("Cybersurf", "CIA"...

  Tags: cable, Canada, CIA, Cybersurf, INTERNET, phone, TELECOMMUNICATIONS