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  • June 2007

    • Rights Groups Pressure US

      Reuters  |  Jun 8, 07 9:36 AM CDT

      Rights Groups Pressure US

      (Newser) - Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared," and urging the US to abandon the use of secret prisons. More »

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      children  • CIA  • War on Terror  • terrorist  • prison  • human rights  • Amnesty International

    • Italy Tries CIA Agents Accused of Kidnapping Terror Suspect

      International Herald Tribune  |  Jun 8, 07 7:32 AM CDT

      Italy Tries CIA Agents Accused of Kidnapping Terror Suspect

      (Newser) - The controversial trial in absentia of 25 CIA operatives and a former head of Italian intelligence opens today in Milan, just as President Bush arrives in Italy. The International Herald Tribune reports on the implications of the case, which centers on the abduction of a Muslim terror suspect who was sent to Egypt for interrogation and, he claims, torture. More »

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      kidnapping  • Italy  • CIA  • terrorist  • trial  • Egypt  • rendition  • Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr

  • May 2007

    • Plame Files Suit Against CIA

      Reuters  |  May 31, 07 4:48 PM CDT

      Plame Files Suit Against CIA

      (Newser) - The former CIA agent whose cover was blown, leading to the perjury conviction of the vice president's former top aide, is suing the agency for interfering with the publication of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Fair Game, filed suit in federal court today, seeking clearance to disclose her dates of service. More »

    • Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

      Washington Post  |  May 30, 07 9:56 AM CDT

      Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

      (Newser) - Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post 's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney." More »

    • CIA Op Aims to Destabilize Iran

      ABC News  |  May 23, 07 5:00 AM CDT

      CIA Op Aims to Destabilize Iran

      (Newser) - President Bush has secretly approved a CIA "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, ABC reports. Sources tell ABC the covert mission deploys propaganda, misinformation, and financial manipulation. A retired senior CIA official says economic pressure may be the most effective means to curb Iran's nuclear buildup. More »

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      Iran  • CIA  • propaganda  • Iran Contra  • manipulation

    • Iran Charges American Scholar

      Washington Post  |  May 22, 07 11:20 AM CDT

      Iran Charges American Scholar

      (Newser) - The Iranian government has charged an Iranian-American scholar already in custody in Tehran with working for "the soft-toppling of the country." Haleh Esfandiari, 67, was arrested May 8 after being under house arrest since January. The accusations come just days before American and Iranian diplomats are to meet in Baghdad for talks about the Iraq war. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • Middle East  • CIA  • Islam  • Haleh Esfandiari  • scholar

    • SEC Gets Lessons on Terrorism

      Reuters  |  May 21, 07 2:03 PM CDT

      SEC Gets Lessons on Terrorism

      (Newser) - For the first time in history, the SEC is being briefed on a different kind of security: homeland security. Barron's revealed that the CIA is filling in the SEC every month about terrorists and other criminals who might affect world stock markets. More »

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      stock market  • CIA  • terrorist  • SEC  • money  • homeland security

    • Iraqi Cash Is Funding Al Qaeda

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 21, 07 4:52 AM CDT

      Iraqi Cash Is Funding Al Qaeda

      (Newser) - A stepped-up CIA effort to hunt down Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan hasn't succeeded in locating the  terrorist, the LA Times reports, but it has uncovered evidence that cash is being funneled from Iraq to keep Al Qaeda alive and well. "Iraq is a big moneymaker for them,"  a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official told the Times . More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Pakistan  • al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • CIA  • terrorist  • Osama bin Laden  • money  • war

    • 'High-Value' Gitmo Detainee Alleges Torture

      Baltimore Sun  |  May 16, 07 12:14 PM CDT

      'High-Value' Gitmo Detainee Alleges Torture

      (Newser) - A 27-year-old Pakistani says he has been tortured since being moved last year from a CIA jail to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Majid Khan, who once lived in Maryland, denies belonging to Al-Qaeda, but he was transferred to Cuba in September with 13 other "high-value" operatives after being in custody since 2003. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • Guantanamo Bay  • CIA  • torture  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed  • terror plots  • Majid Khan

    • Woodward, Tenet Form Perfect Storm of Ego

      New Yorker  |  May 15, 07 7:23 PM CDT

      Woodward, Tenet Form Perfect Storm of Ego

      (Newser) - Once upon a time, former CIA director George Tenet and superstar political reporter Bob Woodward were friendly, but now they're locked in an ego battle too degrading to produce any winners. The New Yorker this month gives each space to snipe at the other and explores what the whinefest means for their careers. More »

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      CIA  • news  • reporter  • Bob Woodward  • George Tenet

    • Tenet Earns Big Bucks off War Profiteers

      Salon  |  May 7, 07 9:31 AM CDT

      Tenet Earns Big Bucks off War Profiteers

      (Newser) - Former CIA boss George Tenet has made a killing off companies profiting in Iraq, Salon reports—one fact undisclosed in his recent tell-all screed. Besides a reported $4 mil advance for the book, Tenet used his spook cred to win spots on corporate boards in a national security industry he himself pushed hard to privatize. More »

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      business  • CIA  • national security  • intelligence  • privatization  • George Tenet

    • Calling All Spies

      GovExec  |  May 2, 07 5:12 PM CDT

      Calling All Spies

      (Newser) - The CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies face a crisis of human capital as they struggle to close the chasm between recently recruited agents and supervisors quickly approaching retirement, Government Executive magazine reports. The spy world is scrambling to keep up with the 21st century's touchy-feely corporate culture, creating more opportunities for collaboration and mentoring. More »

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      CIA  • security  • intelligence  • spy  • NSA

  • April 2007

    • Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Cheney

      New York Times  |  Apr 27, 07 8:03 AM CDT

      Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Cheney

      (Newser) - George Tenet offers a scathing attack on Dick Cheney and other architects of the war in Iraq in a new book to be released Monday, the New York Times reports.  The former CIA director alleges that "there was never serious debate" about whether Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S., or discussion of containing Saddam without invading. More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • Bush administration  • terrorism  • CIA  • War on Terror  • Dick Cheney  • war  • George Tenet

    • Tehran Rescue Caper Was Screen Gem

      Wired  |  Apr 24, 07 8:44 AM CDT

      Tehran Rescue Caper Was Screen Gem

      (Newser) - Wired looks back at one of the most daring (and cinematic) CIA operations ever declassified: the smuggling home of six American hostages during the 1980 Iranian revolution. With the Canadian government's help, agent Tony Mendez painstakingly crafted the elaborate guise of a Canadian sci-fi film crew scouting locations; eventually, the fake crew snuck past the Ayatollah. More »

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      Iran  • CIA  • hostage  • 1980 hostage crisis

  • March 2007
  • January 2007

    • CIA Finds No Escape From Secret Prisons

      Washington Post  |  Jan 1, 07 8:00 AM CST

      CIA Finds No Escape From Secret Prisons

      (Newser) - The secret CIA prisons are back. The US cashed in on military alliances with an eager Poland and Romania to skirt civilian regulations on torture and tk, says a report by Europe's central human rights council released today. The report sheds new light on the so-called 'black sites,' which sparked an international outcry after the W ashington Post first exposed them in 2005. More »

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      Bush administration  • CIA  • NATO  • human rights  •