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• Fact Sheet: A Lasting Framework for United States Intelligence Activities

  - 2008-07-31

  President Bush Updates Executive Order to Create a More Unified, Integrated, and Collaborative Intelligence Community WASHINGTON -- President Bush issued an Executive Order to advance and institutionalize the reforms enacted into law by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and to provide a durable framework for...

  Tags: CIA, Government, president, U.S.

• I Set Up My Own 'Crisis Monitoring' Operation and Gain a Vital 'Deep Throat' Source in the Process

  - 2008-07-01

  It was spring, 1958, and I had just arrived at CIA headquarters via one of the blue, unmarked buses the intelligence agency was using to transport employees and "cleared" visitors to the 37 buildings scattered around Washington. The agency was yet to establish headquarters across the Potomac in Langley, Va....

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, monitoring, U.S., Washington

• Al-Qaida thrives, grows as U.S. spins its wheels

  - 2008-06-30

  WASHINGTON -- Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of al-Qaida. Intelligence...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, Pakistan, U.S.

• Ruling on detainees shows terror strategy is flawed

  - 2008-06-20

  The Supreme Court decision allowing "enemy combatants" at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts confirms that the strategy adopted in the wake of the terrorist attacks on America was flawed from the start ("Ruling maintains high court's streak on Gitmo cases,"...

  Tags: CIA, FBI, Government, strategy, terror, U.S.

• Interrogation playlist

  - 2008-05-01

  has amassed a list of songs the U.S. military and CIA have used during interrogations. The list includes America by Neil Diamond, Staying Alive by the BeeGees, the Sesame Street theme, and the Barney theme song.

  Tags: America, CIA, U.S.

• 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

• O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List Today.

  - 2008-04-02

  M2 PRESSWIRE-2 April 2008-BUYINS.NET: O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List TodayC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02042008 BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been added to the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short ...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, NYSE Euronext, REIT, SEC, stock, U.S.

• I Go to Work for the "Largest PR Agency" in the World, and find myself beginning a 12-year war with the CIA

  - 2008-04-01

  In August 1950, Angelina, my bride of two years, and I arrived in Washington, D.C., ready to take on the world of politics, demagoguery, primitive public relations, red-baiting politicians, sex scandals and globe-spanning news. The moment we stepped off the train that had taken us from Sioux City, Iowa, we...

  Tags: CIA, MARKETING, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State

• 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.

• U.S. editorial excerpts -5-

  - 2008-03-16

  NEW YORK, March 11 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: BUSH'S TORTURED VETO (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) ''We do not torture,'' President Bush insists, yet that assurance is accompanied by an unspoken ''but.'' In vetoing legislation,1,218858.story that would require CIA interrogators to...

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, torture, U.S.