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• Simplot sales team goes back to school with CIA

  - 2008-05-05

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• CIA chief says China's rapid military buildup troubling

  - 2008-04-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA chief Michael Hayden charged Wednesday that China was beefing up its military with "remarkable speed and scope," calling the buildup "troubling." The Chinese, he said, had fully absorbed the lessons of both Gulf wars, developing and integrating advanced weaponry into a modern military force. ...

  Tags: Beijing, buildup, China, CIA, Manufacturing, SALES, Taiwan

• CIA transited three terror suspects through Germany: report

  - 2008-04-15

  BERLIN AFP — An independent report has cleared Berlin of knowing that the CIA transited three Egyptian terror suspects through Germany between 2001 and 2003, a newspaper report said Tuesday. The report by Joachim Jacob, rapporteur for a BND German intelligence agency commission of enquiry into German collusion into...

  Tags: Berlin, CIA, Germany, SALES

• CIA Destroyed Videotapes

  - 2008-03-01

  The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA admitted in December that it had destroyed hundreds of hours of CIA videotape showing suspected terrorist interrogations. CIA Director Michael Hayden said the tapes had been destroyed to protect the identities of interrogators, but other CIA officials have said they were destroyed to protect...

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• CIA denies claim it hid tapes from Sept. 11 panel

  - 2007-12-23

  WASHINGTON -- The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. 11 commission the videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists, saying it waited until the panel went out of business before destroying the material now in question. The destruction in late...

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• CIA obstructed 9/11 investigators: report

  - 2007-12-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA obstructed an official US commission investigating the September 11 attacks by withholding tapes of interrogations of Al-Qaeda operatives, according to former panel members quoted in a report on Saturday. A review of documents by former members of the 9/11 commission revealed the panel made...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, commission, SALES, tape

• CIA obstructed 9/11 investigators: report

  - 2007-12-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The CIA obstructed an official US commission investigating the September 11 attacks by withholding tapes of interrogations of Al-Qaeda operatives, according to former panel members quoted in a report on Saturday. A review of documents by former members of the 9/11 commission revealed the panel made...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, commission, SALES

• How CIA Water-boarding Saved Lives

  - 2007-12-17

  Water-boarding Abu Zubaydah as a last resort to find out whai: he knew about pending terrorist plots was a justifiable act of self-defense. Two weeks before the Sept. 11,2001, attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission, a foreign intelligence service issued a report on the following topic: "Consideration by Abu Zubaydah...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, commission, SALES, U.S.

• Irish human rights body wants CIA flight inspections

  - 2007-12-11

  LONDON AFP — Ireland's top rights body Tuesday accused the government of failing to do enough to ensure that flights used for CIA "extraordinary renditions" are not passing through Irish airports. The Irish Human Rights Commission renewed a call for an effective inspection and monitoring regime to be put...

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• Biden wants CIA tape case probed

  - 2007-12-10

  WASHINGTON -- A Senate Democratic leader said Sunday the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists. Sen. Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cited Michael Mukasey's refusal during...

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