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• War and indecision

  - 2008-06-16

  War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith (Harper, 688 pp., $27.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS book, an analytical description of a dysfunctional National Security Council and disloyal senior officials, will be studied for years by journalists, historians, and...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, Iraq, Pentagon, president

• Al-Qaeda near defeat in Iraq, on defensive globally: CIA chief

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA chief Michael Hayden, in an interview published Friday, said Al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive elsewhere, including the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. CIA director Michael Hayden told the Washington Post major gains have been made against Al-Qaeda's allies in the...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, defeat, Government, Iraq, Leadership

• Upbeat CIA says Al-Qaeda is on the ropes

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda is near defeat in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and is on the defensive even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border, CIA chief Michael Hayden said in an interview published Friday. The assessment was one of the most upbeat by a top intelligence official...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, defeat, Iraq, Pakistan, SECURITY

• 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.

• 'Frontline' retraces path of 'Bush's War'

  - 2008-03-22

  NEW YORK AP -- Join "Bush's War" in marking a dismal anniversary. This two-part "Frontline" documentary begins with the 9/11 attacks. Then, step by step, it moves toward the Bush administration's shock-and-awe response. With Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein successfully branded Public Enemy No. 1, the invasion of Iraq...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Iraq, PBS, TVs

• Yemeni man describes torture in CIA custody: rights group

  - 2008-03-13

  LONDON AFP — A Yemeni national accused American secret agents of subjecting him to various forms of torture during nearly three years of CIA detention, in a statement released by Amnesty International Friday. Khaled Abdu Ahmed Saleh al-Maqtari was arrested by American soldiers in Fallujah, Iraq, in January 2004,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Iraq, London, torture

• Iraqis mesh old, new style of espionage

  - 2008-03-10

  BAGHDAD -- U.S. efforts to assist Iraq in building intelligence capabilities have often clashed with Iraq's history of government secrecy and deep-rooted suspicions. Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq had at least five overlapping national intelligence agencies, some of which spied on one another. Security services interrogated, tortured...

  Tags: CIA, Government, Iraq, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Landon lecture at Kansas State University

  - 2008-03-01

  [The following are excerpts of the speech delivered at the Kansas State University, 26 November 2007.] Looking around the world today, optimism and idealism would not seem to have much of a place at the table. There is no shortage of anxiety about where our nation is headed and...

  Tags: Afghanistan, America, CIA, DOS, Government, Iraq, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war

  - 2008-02-04

  AMMAN AFP — When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing. As one of Saddam Hussein's most gifted engineers, Tawfiq knew that...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Iraq, MARKETING, SADDAM, scientist

• Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government

  - 2008-02-04

  Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government Shadow Warriors By Kenneth R. Timmerman Crown Forum, 2007 $25.95,416pp. Kenneth Timmerman's new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, is a potent assault on the enemy within. The late great U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Bush, CIA, Government, Iran, Iraq, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, Syria, U.S.