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• CIA chief says Iran has nuclear weapons drive

  - 2008-03-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — CIA chief Michael Hayden expressed his personal belief Sunday that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but also stood by the agency's assessment that the program was suspended in 2003. "Personal belief, yes. It's hard for me to explain. This is not court of law...

  Tags: CIA, Iran, MARKETING, TVs

• 'Frontline' retraces path of 'Bush's War'

  - 2008-03-22

  NEW YORK AP -- Join "Bush's War" in marking a dismal anniversary. This two-part "Frontline" documentary begins with the 9/11 attacks. Then, step by step, it moves toward the Bush administration's shock-and-awe response. With Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein successfully branded Public Enemy No. 1, the invasion of Iraq...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Iraq, PBS, TVs

• Remembering Bill Buckley: Founder of the Movement

  - 2008-03-03

  Bill Buckley was the founder of the modern conservative movement Others clearly made major contributions-Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, of course-but in the 1950s and 1960s Buckley, by his words and his actions, forced the reigning Liberal Establishment to acknowledge that a major new political force had...

  Tags: CIA, spark, TVs

• Bombs and butts

  - 2008-01-12

  Charlie Wilson's War 15, Nationwide Mike Nichols's latest film is a mixed bag and a stuffed bag and, incredibly, none the worse for either. In its rat-a-tat, rapidfire 95 minutes you get bombings, mines, refugee camps, casualties, hot tubs, Playboy cover girls, arms dealers, cocaine, scandal, Tom Hanks's naked...

  Tags: CIA, Pakistan, TVs

• Today on TV

  - 2007-11-06

  NCIS (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Gibbs agrees to help his late daughter's childhood friend. Nova (7 p.m., Ch. 7): The clash of politics and personalities in the early days of the space race -- which led to the founding of NASA. Bones (7 p.m., Ch. 13):...

  Tags: CIA, TVs

• US network names Iraqi who pushed US case for war

  - 2007-11-01

  NEW YORK AFP — US television network CBS said Thursday it had identified a man known to intelligence agents as "curve ball," whose fake story of biological weapons drove the US argument for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The network's 60 Minutes program identified the man as an Iraqi...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Germany, Iraq, network, NETWORKING, TVs

• Powerful 'Rendition' echoes war's moral dilemma

  - 2007-10-19

  It has been dubbed "The '24' Scenario," after the popular television drama. A massive bomb, for instance, is set to go off within a large American city and someone in U.S. custody knows where it is and how to disarm it, but is refusing to talk. Do...

  Tags: America, CIA, Government, TVs

• Join 'The Company'

  - 2007-08-03

  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Apparently, co-starring in the TNT miniseries "The Company" was a bit of an ordeal for Michael Keaton. "The other thing about television is it's so expletive fast that you have no time. You just have to be ready to go at any moment," said...

  Tags: CIA, Company, TVs

• A secret history in 3 acts

  - 2007-08-02

  Faced with two competing theatrical releases about the CIA and winnowing Robert Littell's best-selling novel about the spy business into a $100-million-plus, 21/2-hour movie, filmmaker Ridley Scott decided The Company would make a better miniseries. "I loved Ken Nolan's script," Scott says. "But we discovered Bobby...

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• The War on Democracy

  - 2007-08-01

  The War on Democracy directed by Chris Martin and John Pilger John Pilger left has a long track record as a campaigning journalist. His print journalism for Britain's Daily Mirror and his many TV documentary films have been welcome attacks on Western foreign policy. His latest film--his first...

  Tags: CIA, democracy, PRODUCTIVITY, TVs