Tag: cia
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before we go eulogizing gerald ford. . .
from wayne madsen: As the nation eulogizes President Gerald R. Ford, who died last night in California, no one should lose sight of the fact that it was Ford who helped launch the careers of the two ugliest faces in the George W. Bush administration: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney and Rumsfeld were deep-selected…
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cheney to take the stand in plamegate case
from raw story: A segment on this morning’s CNN broadcast discussed Vice President Dick Cheney’s planned testimony as a defense witness in the Justice Department’s perjury case against former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby. CNN broadcaster Soledad O’Brien remarked that “it can be kind of confusing” but that “the big take away from this…
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the good shepherd
from wikipedia: The value of secrecy — commitment to honor and discretion — has been embedded in Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) since childhood. As a dedicated, optimistic student at Yale University, he is recruited to join the Order of Skull and Bones, a secret society designed to breed the world leaders of tomorrow. Wilson’s acute…
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US military rehearses terror hearings
from ap/yahoo: The U.S. military is rehearsing for hearings on whether 14 top terror suspects can be held indefinitely without charge as enemy combatants, but defense lawyers say the outcome is preordained. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and the 13 others will be the highest-profile detainees to undergo the so-called…
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Gates unlikely to rein in Pentagon on intelligence
from reuters: Robert Gates is unlikely to rein in the Pentagon’s controversial post-September 11 expansion into intelligence, despite concerns the U.S. military is ill-suited for espionage outside the battlefield, experts say. But Gates, the former CIA director who will be sworn in as defense secretary on Monday, could help heal a rift between the Pentagon…
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news on the march
Cuban mob attacks human rights protestersfrom washington post: More than 200 Cuban government supporters attacked 15 human rights activists on International Human Rights Day on Sunday, manhandling the demonstrators as they drove them from a Havana park. Ten Canadians die after taking bird flu vaccinefrom world poultry: Following reports that patients taking Tamiflu can exhibit…
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Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high
from jerry mazza: The question is why. Under Taliban rule, which began in the late 1990s, Afghanistan just about kicked the growing habit by 2001. After five years the Taliban is slipping back in, but poppy production has grown by leaps and bounds. According to the Washington Post, “Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more…
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Documents reveal US funding for Chile coup
just in case you’ve forgotten… dead dictator pinochet, was installed by the CIA as part of operation condor on one of our many other september 11th events… from cnn (november 13, 2000): U.S. officials released documents on Monday acknowledging the CIA had provided covert aid 30 years ago to undermine Chile’s government, but analysts say…
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bush crime family crony robert gates a shoo-in
from kurt nimmo: “Robert Gates, the former CIA director and Texas A&M University president, is expected to easily win nomination as President Bush’s next defense secretary following a hearing today that is likely to focus on strategies in Iraq,” reports Express-News. Easy nomination, no matter the guy is a criminal, not to mention a blood-thirsty…
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3 people, 3 letters, 1 target: rfk
from brasscheck tv: New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy’s assassination has been brought to light. The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O’Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight. It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los…
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america’s third world war
from kurt nimmo/information clearinghouse: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the…
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CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuke drive
from agence france-presse: A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said.Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance,…
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spooks at google… & myspace, paypal, youtube, ebay & yahoo
from kurt nimmo: It comes as no surprise that Google is in bed with the CIA, or rather it is no surprise the CIA ate Google and has turned it into yet another front company. “A former clandestine services officer for the CIA who also maintains close relationships with top Google representatives says that the…
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Osama Bin Forgotten
The CIA has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants.