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• 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.

• Bigger cast in play for Pa. Turnpike

  - 2008-01-20

  The curtain is about to go up on Act 2 of  Lease the Turnpike , a long-running drama in which most of the action has been offstage. The players, in addition to the usual Harrisburg cast, include the two of the largest banks in the United States, a former controller...

  Tags: Australia, Canada, CIA, FINANCE, leasing, officer, Pennsylvania, Spain, team, U.S.

• 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...

  Tags: CIA, GIS, Newsweek, officer, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, technique, Web

• The promise of American Intelligence.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

  - 2007-11-01

  By virtue of his long experience on the intelligence beat, Tim Weiner is well qualified to critique the successes and failures of the CIA ("How to Make a Spy," September/October 2007). His proposal to invest $20 billion in scholarships during the next five years to train...

  Tags: CIA, MARKETING, officer, U.S.

• Watercoolered

  - 2007-11-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As she walks to her table at a Georgetown restaurant, Janine Brookner looks pleasant, harmless, vaguely academic; with her blond bob and cream pantsuit, you'd figure her for a literature professor. But only until she starts to talk about her long tenure as a spook-and her second...

  Tags: agency, CIA, MARKETING, officer, security, women

• CIA analysts to share insights at Y. today

  - 2007-10-03

  PROVO -- A group of analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency will visit the Brigham Young University campus today to present "Inside the CIA Post-9/11" at 3 p.m. in Room 238 of the Herald R. Clark Building. These CIA officers, including some BYU graduates, are serving in the...

  Tags: analyst, CIA, MARKETING, officer

• How U.S. spies are recruited, trained is morphing

  - 2007-10-01

  LANGLEY, Va. -- The nation's undercover spy services have come a long way since 2004, said Jose Rodriguez, the outgoing leader of the National Clandestine Service. That year, then-CIA director George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that the agency was at least five years away from...

  Tags: agency, CIA, MARKETING, officer

• Intelligence in the 21st century

  - 2007-06-19

  Thanks for the chance to come down and talk a little bit about both of my lives: my life as an Air Force officer and my life as an intelligence officer. And what I've proposed to do in my remarks--and we'll leave some time for questions at the end--is to...

  Tags: Air Force, CAREER, CIA, FINANCE, Government, officer

• CIA agent testifies in trial of US terror suspect Padilla

  - 2007-05-15

  MIAMI AFP — A CIA operative told a US court Tuesday that documents given to US authorities in Afghanistan included what appeared to be an application for Al-Qaeda training filled out by American terror suspect Jose Padilla. The covert officer gave his name as Tom Langston and wore a...

  Tags: Afghanistan, agent, CIA, Government, Miami, officer, SOFTWARE

• DEATH SQUADS AS PARALLEL FORCES: URUGUAY, OPERATION CONDOR, AND THE UNITED STATES

  - 2007-04-01

  INTRODUCTION From the 1960s to the 1980s Latin America was convulsed by violence as military-security forces carried out a ruthless "war against subversion." A wave of U.S-backed military coups swept the region and repressive, right-wing military rule was instituted in almost every country. These states, which I term national security...

  Tags: Argentina, Argentine, Brazil, Brazilian, CIA, disappearance, Government, officer, SECURITY, terror, Torture, torture, training, U.S., Washington