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• Justice will investigate torture plan

  - 2008-04-18

  WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating whether agency lawyers improperly advised the military it could use harsh interrogation methods and concluded that President Bush's wartime authority could not be limited by domestic law or international bans on torture. The findings outlined in a March 2003 memo have...

  Tags: CIA, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, torture, U.S., U.S. Department of Justice

• With A Quiet Blessing, U.S. Attacks On Al Qaeda Spike

  - 2008-03-31

  The United States has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets along Pakistan’s rugged border area, a measure that in the past drew protests from President Pervez Musharraf but now has his government’s tacit approval. Since January, missiles reportedly fired from CIA operated Predator drones...

  Tags: attack, CIA, Government, Pakistan, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Century Foundation's Best and Worst of 2007: Government Secrecy -- by Patrick Radden Keefe.

  - 2008-01-03

  Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 3 AScribe Newswire -- Following is commentary by Patrick Radden Keefe, Program Officer and Fellow at The Century Foundation. - - - - America has a classification problem, and...

  Tags: America, CIA, Government, NETWORKING, satellite, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Irregular maritime strategy

  - 2008-01-01

  Sir: It was both informative and a pleasure to read Martin Murphy's "Suppression of Piracy and Maritime Terrorism" in the Summer 2007 issue of the Naval War College Review. I do want to comment on his use of the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in the mid-1980s to illustrate a...

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

• Beyond guns and steer: reviving the nonmilitary instruments of American power: remarks as delivered verbatim by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Manhattan, Kansas, 26 November 2007

  - 2008-01-01

  IT IS BOTH AN HONOR AND A PLEASURE to be part of the Landon Lecture series--a forum that for more than four decades has hosted some of America's leading intellectuals and statesmen. Considering that, I at first wondered if the invitation was in fact meant for Bill Gates. It...

  Tags: Afghanistan, America, CIA, Government, Iraq, SOFTWARE, U.S., U.S. Department of State

• OUR VIEW

  - 2007-12-19

  Open government Congress must investigate tapes' destruction Although the circumstances are suspicious surrounding a decision by the CIA to destroy videotapes of the interrogations of two al- Qaida suspects by CIA interrogators, it is virtually impossible to know whether those tapes contain evidence of...

  Tags: CIA, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, torture, U.S., U.S. Department of Justice