South Carolina: Sanford Is Away, With His Wife By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS July 15, 2009 Gov. Mark Sanford headed out of state for personal time with his wife, as the two try to reconcile, and skipped a meeting with a top economic adviser ahead of what is expected to be more bad economic news, including […]
CIA Assassin Plan Was Set to Go Active Panetta Terminated Secret Anti-Terror Program After Learning of Training Proposals By Joby Warrick Washington Post July 16, 2009 CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta […]
The “Other Intelligence Activities” By: emptywheel July 15, 2009 I’ve been waiting for someone with the patience and resources of Job to pore over last weeks NSA OIG Report on the PSP and figure out what the "Other Intelligence Activities" are [were] – the ones not included in the "Terrorist Surveillance Program." Neither Yoo’s Memos […]
Modified Limited Hang-Out on Cheney’s Murder Inc. at-Largely by Larisa Alexandrovna July 14, 2009 … Modified Limited Hang-Out Is a similar type of deception or partial deception, but slightly different. Here is how the San Francisco Chronicle describes a modified limited hang-out: "That was the game plan; that was the playbook. The White House would […]
Jesus plus nothing: Q&A with Jeffrey Sharlet The Family shouting out while watching is allowed… the real story… The Family Youth with a Mission National Prayer Breakfast The rise of the Religious Right [the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, the Traditional Values Coalition, etc.] in the last several decades has been […]
Don’t Shoot Newsweek By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff July 14, 2009 A ferocious dispute between the CIA and congressional Democrats centers on an ultrasecret effort launched by agency officials after 9/11 to draw up plans to hunt down and kill terrorists using commando teams similar to those deployed by Israel after the 1972 Munich […]
CIA Vet: Agency Doesn’t Need Secret Program To Target al Qaeda TPMmuckracker By Zachary Roth July 13, 2009 Earlier today, we raised a few questions about the notion that the secret CIA program that Dick Cheney reportedly withheld from Congress concerned an effort to kill or capture al Qaeda leaders. And now a top counter-terror […]
The Choices That Closed a Window Into Afghanistan New York Times MICHIKO KAKUTANI July 13, 2009 Book Review of: IN THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES: America’s War in Afghanistan By Seth G. Jones It’s hard for the reader to finish this volume without being struck by the remarkable parallels between the American failure to prevent a […]
Forget Senator John Ensign’s and Governor Mark Sanford’s Sex Scandals. This is the real story…
C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders New York Times By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE July 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials. The plans remained vague and were never carried […]