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  • July 2008

    • White House Order Ramps Up Spy Boss Powers

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 31, 08 5:36 AM CDT

      White House Order Ramps Up Spy Boss Powers

      (Newser) - A sweeping overhaul of spy powers will give the director of national intelligence broad new authority, reports the Wall Street Journal . Mike McConnell will be able to command information-sharing between agencies, hire and fire agency heads, and make major purchase decisions under a new executive order signed yesterday by President Bush and to be announced today, say officials briefed on the changes. More »

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      Mike McConnell  • intelligence agencies  • Director of National Intelligence

    • From Britain With Love: MI6 Seeks Minorities

      Associated Press  |  Jul 13, 08 4:32 PM CDT

      From Britain With Love: MI6 Seeks Minorities

      (Newser) - Next year's 007's may look more like Charlie's Angels than James Bond, as MI6 seeks to recruit more women and minority agents, the AP reports. The drive, which has netted 20,000 résumés over the past 12 months, welcomes Asian and Middle Eastern language speakers, the disabled, and women—and guarantees that female agents won't be used as "honey pots." More »

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      Great Britain  • counterterrorism  • gender  • James Bond  • gender discrimination  • intelligence agencies  • gender stereotypes  • MI6

    • US Spies Getting Own Version of Second Life

      Wired  |  Jul 3, 08 7:41 PM CDT

      US Spies Getting Own Version of Second Life

      (Newser) - Call it 007 2.0, if you will. The US military is planning a Second Life -style virtual world just for spies, complete with a “time machine” feature. But some are skeptical. "They can't do plain old forensics right and they're going to develop a mechanism that rolls the clock backwards and forwards based on multiple inputs?" grouses one unnamed critic in Wired. More »

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      US military  • virtual worlds  • intelligence agencies  • spies

  • June 2008

    • 'Good Cop' Enticed 9/11 Mastermind to Talk

      New York Times  |  Jun 22, 08 7:09 AM CDT

      'Good Cop' Enticed 9/11 Mastermind to Talk

      (Newser) - A CIA interrogator’s rapport with a mastermind of the 9/11 attacks helped provide vast amounts of information on terrorism while raising tough questions about interrogation methods, the New York Times reports. Agent Deuce Martinez cajoled Khalid Sheikh Mohammed into discussing his thoughts in great detail—but it’s unclear whether Mohammed would have opened up without first facing interrogation techniques like waterboarding. More »

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      CIA  • waterboarding  • interrogation techniques  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed  • intelligence agencies

  • April 2008

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