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• Drowning In Questions

  - 2007-11-12

  The confirmation battle over President Bush’s nominee for attorney general Michael Mukasey has hinged on his position regarding a CIA interrogation technique known as waterboarding. While calling it “repugnant” in a letter to Congress last week, Mukasey wrote that he didn’t know enough about the technique to determine whether it’s...

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• The Man Behind Blackwater

  - 2007-10-22

  Dutiful and intense, son of a self-made billionaire, Erik Prince is an adventure seeker and conservative true believer. An exclusive. Erik Prince likes to point out that in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, stand the statues of four military officers who helped whip the ragtag Continental Army...

  Tags: CIA, diplomat, Government, Newsweek, Park, Prince, SECURITY, soldier

• Into Thin Air

  - 2007-09-03

  The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, spotted a patrol of U.S. soldiers who seemed to be heading straight...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, Government, MARKETING, Newsweek, U.S.

• CIA panel blocks book by outed agent Valerie Plame

  - 2007-01-07

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Central Intelligence Agency has shot down a book by former undercover agent Valerie Plame, whose outing led to an investigation of the highest levels of government, a magazine reported. According to Newsweek magazine, the CIA panel that must approve writings by former employees ruled Plame can't...

  Tags: agent, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Newsweek

• The New Face: A Spy With Fresh Eyes

  - 2006-11-20

  How does the incoming Defense secretary really feel about the war in Iraq? At sessions of the Iraq Study Group over the past months, Robert Gates was careful not to show his cards. But on the commission's long flight home from a fact-finding mission to Baghdad in September, after several...

  Tags: Bush, CAREER, CIA, commission, Iraq, Newsweek, SALES

• CIA: Probe Into Renditions

  - 2006-10-02

  As many as 20 CIA officials and contractors could face legal charges in Germany for their alleged role in the abduction of Khaled el-Masri, a German national once wrongly suspected of involvement with 9/11 conspirators, German officials say. Amid new disclosures last week by a German TV show, a Munich...

  Tags: CIA, MARKETING, Newsweek

• We Can't Work It Out Edition

  - 2006-05-29

  Sir Paul McCartney and his second wife split up and blame the media, which respond with bad Beatle puns. Bush = His immigration plan is too "reasonable" to satisfy the talk-radio base. So much for the middle ground. Hayden + ...

  Tags: CIA, fiasco, MARKETING, Newsweek, senator, Sir, Strategy, U.N.

• Nine Digits Edition

  - 2006-05-22

  Your tax dollars at work: The government has proof that you forgot to call your mom on Mother's Day. Bush - Touching bottom--or is he? Floating Nat. Guard idea to guard our borders. Nice choice: Baja or Baghdad. Hayden = ...

  Tags: Baghdad, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Newsweek, Taxes, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Tom

• The Editor's Desk

  - 2006-05-22

  When Kyle dusty Foggo, the number-three man at the CIA, resigned last week--and the FBI showed up at his office and home looking for incriminating evidence--it shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone who has followed Mark Hosenball 's reporting. For more than a year, Hosenball has been investigating...

  Tags: CIA, Editor, Government, Manufacturing, Newsweek, Strategy

• Spy vs. Spy Edition

  - 2006-05-15

  Even the most paranoid spy thriller pales beside the lame cover story for Porter Goss's sudden exit as CIA chief. Paging Robert Ludlum. Bush = Putting brakes on getting anything done to save the base for midterms. What a comedown. Cheney -...

  Tags: brake, CIA, Iran, Newsweek, paging, prognosis, Strategy