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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleSenate 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCIA 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...
View ArticleUndeterred 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...
View ArticleDefense 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...
View ArticleMixed 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...
View ArticleBin 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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