The Real Intelligence FailureSource: Campaign for Liberty
America's fundamental post 9/11 problem is that the resort to brute force is an easy option for a nation that is powerful but that does not necessarily seek to deal with the international subtleties. That go-it-alone aggressiveness was the model for the Bush Administration.
The CIA's Afghan Payroll Source: CounterPunch.org
The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by U.S.
The Predator WarSource: New Yorker
On August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan.
Cheney Calls Interrogation Inquiry "Political"Source: The New York Times
Former Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Sunday that the Justice Department's decision to review detainee interrogation practices by Central Intelligence Agency workers and contractors was "a political move" and that President Obama was trying to "duck the responsibi …
Thugs of FortuneSource: AntiWar.com
It was the mercenary facet, though, according to Mazetti, that led CIA director Leon Panetta to cancel the program in June and then tell Congress about it. Panetta would have been fine with assassinating suspects, I reckon, if only CIA types had been involved.
Rationalizing TortureSource: Reason Magazine
But there is really no doubt that the agency engaged in severe cruelty. No less an authority than last year's Republican presidential nominee regards waterboarding as torture.
Uncle Sam's Human Lab RatsSource: MotherJones.com
They say government scientists messed with their minds. Now, veterans of secret psychedelic tests want answers.
Leonard Pitts: Pelosi's "Tortured" Stories Source: MiamiHerald.com
Somebody call me when Nancy Pelosi gets her story straight.
So far, the House Speaker's explanation of what and when she knew about the Bush administration's policy of torturing suspected terrorists is crookeder than Dick Cheney's smile.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just moments ago wrapped up what may well be the second worst press conference in the history of the United States. In a performance that was equal parts hysterical finger pointing and Sgt.
Pelosi Lied - Pelosi KNEW! Source: The Washington Post
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months …
The CIA's Fight With ObamaSource: RealClearPolitics
Has Barack Obama made an enemy who can sabotage his presidency? The presidency of George W.
How the CIA Thwarted the West Coast PlotSource: National Review Online
Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists.
Throwing Our Protectors to the Wolves Source: Campaign Standard
"We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Obama said when he ordered the release of the Justice Department interrogation memos. Actually, no. Not at all. We were attacked on 9/11.
Cut CIA's Footprint In PakistanSource: PakNationalists
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-The United States Central Intelligence Agency faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan has direct or indirect support from Wash …
The secrets of Obama's surgeSource: atimes.com
Is United States President Barack Obama telling it like it is as far as his new strategy for the Afghanistan and Pakistan war theater - AfPak, in Pentagonspeak - is concerned? There are reasons to believe otherwise.
Presidential ping-pong over executive ordersSource: msnbc.com
A new president can undo some of what his predecessor did, through memoranda or executive orders, having the force of law without Congressional approval. A new round will soon begin.
Kyle "Dusty" Foggo Guilty of FraudSource: pogoblog.typepad.com
Foggo just plead guilty to an indictment of defrauding the U.S., "abusing his supervisory positions with the CIA in order to cause the CIA to hire companies and individuals with whom he had concealed his personal relationships."