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  • How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ’not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. By Bob Drogin and John Goetz Special to The Times
    November 20, 2005
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his (…)

  • Woodward joins a decadent dance
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Rutten
    Whatever impact the scandal surrounding the leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity ultimately has on the Bush administration, it continues to spread through the Washington press corps like a toxic plume.
    As it does, it discredits not only individual reporters and damages their news organizations but also an entire style of reporting that has come to dominate the way Americans are informed - or misinformed - concerning their government’s conduct.
    This week’s (…)

  • Scooter Libby’s Doomed Defense
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Elizabeth de la Vega
    Shortly after Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, was indicted for obstructing justice and making false statements to a government agent and a grand jury, Libby’s attorneys suggested that they would use the standard he’s-a-busy-man-who-can’t-remember-everything defense. But now, with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s revelation that a senior Administration official other than Libby told him, in mid-June 2003, that Joseph (…)

  • Is AFL-CIO’s International Solidarity Center A Subsidiary of the U.S. State Department?
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harry Kelber
    In 1997, the AFL-CIO established the American Center for International Labor Solidarity to develop organizing strategies for international campaigns and cooperative relations with labor federations in other countries.
    Solidarity Center replaced the four regional institutes under former President Lane Kirkland , whose staffs, operating in some 80 countries, had been involved with CIA agents to destabilize democratically-elected governments in the Dominican Republic, Brazil (…)

  • CHART, TABLE: CIA Secret Prison-Torture Planes—What the MSM Won’t Tell
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    QUESTION: WILL CIA AGENTS BE TREATED AS "FOREIGN COMBATANTS" BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES WHEN THEY OPERATE OUTSIDE THE LAW? Should they tush be subjec to Guantanamo type treatment? There is plenty of evidence in the news of illegal (under international and non-US laws) CIA operations.
    The European Commission JUST ANNOUNCED (Nov. 15) it will NOT investigate published reports that the CIA set up secret jails in Eastern Europe to detain high-profile terrorism suspects. However, it strongly (…)

  • CIA Accused of Using Airport in Mallorca
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spanish Court Gets Report Accusing CIA Used Airport on Mediterranean Island to Transfer Suspects
    By MARIA JESUS
    The National Court has received a prosecutor’s report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said Monday.
    The chief prosecutor for the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, submitted the 114-page report to the court in July, after a four-month investigation (…)

  • A DEADLY INTERROGATION : Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JANE MAYER
    At the end of a secluded cul-de-sac, in a fast-growing Virginia suburb favored by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a handsome replica of an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a white-railed front porch. The large back yard has a swimming pool, which, on a recent October afternoon, was neatly covered. In the driveway were two cars, a late-model truck, and an all-terrain vehicle. The sole discordant note was struck by a faded American flag on the porch; instead of (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • Bush Administration rewriting history won’t change reality or restore credibility
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
    Neither assertion is wholly accurate.
    The administration’s overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of (…)

  • 2nd Memo to Cheney after 9-11: “The ‘family’ wants their boxes”
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congress continues to ignore explosive memos pointing to secret cash payoffs
    by Tom Flocco
    Washington-November 9, 2005-TomFlocco.com-A November 2, 2001 hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney from former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, indicates the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the September 11 attacks.
    According to U.S. intelligence agents with knowledge of the document, Wanta’s (…)