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• A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab

  - 2008-08-01

  A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America CIA Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab The NFL combines product development and commercialization strengths to create "a unique culinary-driven concept development process."

  Tags: America, CIA, Collaboration, food, Groupware, MARKETING, NFL, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• FILM OF THE DAY; The Good Shepherd

  - 2008-07-24

  Robert De Niro directs and stars in this spy drama exploring the secret history of the CIA. The film focuses on the personal and professional struggles of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, whose membership of a secret society while studying at Yale leads him into a career with the government's intelligence...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, drama, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University

• FILM OF THE DAY; The Good Shepherd

  - 2008-07-24

  Robert De Niro directs and stars in this spy drama exploring the secret history of the CIA. The film focuses on the personal and professional struggles of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, whose membership of a secret society while studying at Yale leads him into a career with the government's intelligence...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, drama, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University

• Top-level torture: the Bush administration admits to condoning acts that most people would deem torture. Now we know that the administration determined how the tortures were to be carried out

  - 2008-06-09

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A hidden bomb will detonate in an hour, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. You have the bomber in your power. Do you torture him to discover the device's location? The Principals Committee answered "Yes" to the classic "Ticking Time Bomb Scenario." And what is...

  Tags: administration, CIA, Government, SOFTWARE, torture

• Berlusconi, Prodi may testify in CIA kidnap trial

  - 2008-05-14

  MILAN, Italy AFP — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi may testify in the Milan trial of 26 CIA agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian imam, a judge decided Wednesday. Judge Oscar Magi accepted defence lawyers' arguments that Prodi and Berlusconi should be called in...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Government, Milan, SOFTWARE

• 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

• Uruguay seeks secret US archives on 'dirty war'

  - 2008-04-07

  MONTEVIDEO AFP — President Tabare Vazquez has asked US President George W. Bush to declassify US documents on Uruguay's "dirty war" (1973-1985) for possible clues to a 1978 murder and other crimes, his office said Monday. "My government hopes it can count on the cooperation of the US government...

  Tags: CIA, Government, Leadership, president, SOFTWARE

• 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.

• Conservatism, Buckley style: the mainstream media used the occasion of Buckley's passing to credit him with making conservatism modern and respectable. But what kind of "conservatism" is that?

  - 2008-03-31

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] William F. Buckley, Jr. passed into eternity on February 27. Thousands of media reports immediately reminded our nation that he had been America s leading conservative." The New York Times claimed his "greatest achievement was making conservatism respectable." House Republican leader John Boehner labeled him "the architect...

  Tags: Benefits, CIA, Government, SOFTWARE, Yale University

• CIA kidnapping trial resumes in Italy

  - 2008-03-19

  ROME AFP — A Milan court on Wednesday resumed the "CIA-gate" trial of 26 US citizens accused in the February 2003 CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in the northern city, a court-appointed lawyer said. Judge Oscar Magi had suspended the trial last June to allow the Constitutional Court...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Government, Italy, Milan, SOFTWARE