CIA

CIA Has A Suspected Afghan Drug Lord On Their Payroll

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

From The New York Times:
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
The agency pays Mr. Karzai [...]

The Case Against Liz Cheney’s “Case”

Monday, August 31st, 2009

A few months ago, Liz Cheney was making the media rounds trying to defend papa Cheney from accusations that he was ultimately responsible for authorizing the torture of detainees.
After taking a bit of a hiatus, she has reappeared to continue her “tour of lies.”
In the past, Liz Cheney has made some pretty outrageous statements in [...]

Breaking News: Cheney Lied

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Yes…Sarcasm.
From Talking Points Memo: (Summary)
Big Surprise: Torture Memos Belie Cheney’s Claims
By: Zachary Roth
During the debate over torture this spring, Cheney claimed that CIA memos, which he had asked to be declassified, would prove that torture proved effective in obtaining actionable intelligence.
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Well, yesterday, those memos were released, along with the CIA inspector general’s report. And, surprise [...]

Holder Appoints Special Prosecutor For CIA Torture Investigation

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From the Washington Post:
Justice Department leaders representing both political parties have turned to John H. Durham for most of his three-decade legal career to unravel their most vexing and sensational problems.
As a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, Durham helped convict the state’s GOP governor on corruption charges five years ago. In a different case, he untangled [...]

Liz Cheney Deflects Questions About Her Father Keeping Secrets From Congress, And Shows Her Lack Of Knowledge With Regards To The Law

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Liz Cheney must have broken some sort of record as to how many times one can field the same question without actually answering it.
What is more important than Cheney refusing to answer Mika Brzezinski’s questions, is Cheney’s blatant disregard for the law that binds the CIA to brief Congress on any action the CIA is [...]

Accountability May Be In Cheney’s Near Future

Monday, July 13th, 2009

From Common Dreams:
Dick Cheney’s accountability moment may finally be arriving.
After years of pulling punches, Democrats in the Senate are throwing them at Cheney, following the revelation that the man who operated as something akin to a co-president during George Bush’s first term ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress.
There [...]

Marc Thiessen Sees How Much Bullshit He Can Fit Into 30 Seconds

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Here is Leon Panetta’s exact quote:
It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.
In this clip, Thiessen takes exaggeration to a whole new level. Thiessen also went on [...]

Torture Programs Looking More And More Illegal

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

From NPR:
It is clear that increasingly abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee, in the months between his capture and the first Justice Department memo authorizing harsh interrogations. But the legal guidance that authorized those early interrogations remains shrouded in secrecy.
Zubaydah was picked up on March 28, 2002. The Justice [...]

Head Of The CIA Suggests That Briefing Records Are Based On Memories

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

From the Washington Post:
But agency officials also referred the media to last week’s statement from CIA Director Leon Panetta, who suggested that the briefing records that Pelosi demanded be released yesterday are based on the almost seven-year-old recollections of officials present for the briefings. Panetta said Congress would have to determine for itself whose memory [...]

Since When Did Republicans Start Having So Much Respect For The CIA?

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Recently Nancy Pelosi started a firestorm of controversey when she accused the CIA of misleading her when it came to briefings about detainees.
Since then, Republicans have been swooping down out of the sky like Marvel Comic superheroes, to come to save the reputation of the CIA.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said today that he “totally disagrees” [...]