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Intel Chief Issues Tepid Reaction to Senate’s Abdulmutallab Report

It’s so dry it borders on passive-aggressive. “Immediately following the attempted attack, Director Blair initiated reviews to identify [intelligence community]-wide shortcomings and potential...

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The Post-Blair Intelligence World

Today Next Friday is Dennis Blair’s last day in the office as Director of National Intelligence. His farewell message to the intelligence community workforce is admirably chipper, calling them “true...

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Don’t Hold Your Next Academic Conference in Egypt or Pakistan

Mark Mazzetti has a blockbuster piece in today’s New York Times about a secret order issued by Gen. David Petraeus last fall, with the aid of Adm. Eric Olson, that authorizes Special Operations Forces...

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Senate Intel Committee: No Clapper; Yea Panetta

In a statement she put out yesterday afternoon, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sure sounded like she didn’t want defense intelligence...

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New Report Accuses CIA Doctors of Experimenting on Detainees

Physicians for Human Rights, an anti-torture non-governmental association, synthesizes a bunch of publicly available information to draw a gruesome conclusion: Medical personnel who participated in the...

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CIA Indictments: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

Ryan Reilly reports: Assistant United States Attorney John Durham is close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents violated the law when they used brutal methods...

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Undeterred by Government Reversal, Communities Keep Up Fight to Opt Out of...

Illegal immigrants are held at a detention facility in Phoenix, Ariz. (Mary F. Calvert/ZUMApress.com) Until last week, local officials in Arlington, Va., Santa Clara, Calif., San Francisco and...

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Defense Dept. answers ACLU, says it doesn’t track civilians killed in drone...

This week, the American Civil Liberties Union released a letter it received from the Department of Defense confirming that it does not compile statistics on the total number of civilians that have been...

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Mixed reactions for Panetta-Petraeus Defense-CIA announcements

The release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate has overshadowed another major story coming out of the administration today. Multiple sources within the Pentagon have told the AP and...

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Bin Laden killed by American forces, Obama says

President Barack Obama has announced the death of Osama bin Laden, killed in Pakistan during a CIA/Navy Seals operation. The New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama announced late Sunday that...

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