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Dems Should be Careful about using Deep State to get at Trump

By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | - - Ever since the November election, Democrats have been looking for a reason to take down President Trump and vindicate Clinton’s loss. Refusing to…

Trump to CIA: We now have 2nd Chance to take Iraq’s Oil

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has had a contentious relationship with the US intelligence community, in part over their conviction that the Russian Federation attempted to…

Murdering Civilians: US Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows

By Pratap Chatterjee | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across…

A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

By John Kiriakou | (Foreign Policy in Focus/ Otherwords.org) | - - They can call it anything they want, but the CIA tortured its prisoners. And that's a crime against humanity. The…

Burned: Valerie Plame Wilson’s new Roman a Clef on Dick Cheney’s Great Betrayal

Bloomberg "Valerie Plame Wilson, author and former CIA officer, discusses her new book entitled "Burned" and national security in the 21st century with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg)" Channel…

Dear GOP: Captured Benghazi Suspect Says He Was Inspired By Video

Captured Benghazi Suspect Says He Was Inspired By Video (via Liberaland) Abu Khatalla, the captured suspected ringleader of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack, says it was the much-discussed video that inspired…

Pakistan: CIA “Bin Laden” Unit’s Fake Vaccination Ploy Sparked Polio Crisis

(By Sarah Lazare) A Pakistani official on Thursday slammed the CIA's fake vaccination drive in 2011 for fueling distrust of polio eradication campaigns and driving "attacks on polio workers" as the country…

The Impunity of American Torture: From Abu Ghraib to Sen. Feinstein’s Brawl with the CIA

(by Karen J. Greenberg via Tomdispatch.com) It’s mind-boggling. Torture is still up for grabs in America. No one questions anymore whether the CIA waterboarded one individual 83 times or another 186 times.…

US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran’s Democratic gov’t (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran's designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran and provoked demonstrations in Iran. Hamid Aboutalebi…

State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry

State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry (via Techdirt) While the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify its $40 million, 6,300 page report detailing…

Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Frightened of The CIA

Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Scared Of The CIA (via Techdirt) Over the past few months, one thing we keep hearing over and over again from defenders of the intelligence community…

CIA: Only Spied On Senate Because They Took Documents Proving We Lied

CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars (via Techdirt) Earlier this week, we wrote about the accusations that the CIA was spying…

Rachel Maddow: CIA spying on Congress ‘is death of the Republic stuff’

(Via RawStory) Rachel Maddow: CIA spying on Congress ‘is death of the Republic stuff’ (via Raw Story ) A dispute between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Senate Intelligence Committee may…

The Deep State is Vulnerable to People Power

(By Juan Cole) My remarks below were published at Bill Moyers' site this weekend. They came in response to Mike Lofgren's important essay, "Anatomy of the Deep State" . Lofgren is a…

The Day the 5th Amendment was Droned to Death

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch) Terrorism (ter-ror-ism; see also terror) n. 1. When a foreign organization kills an American for political reasons. Justice (jus-tice) n. 1. When the United States Government…

Assassination by Leak: US floats Trial Balloon of Droning an American to Death

(By Tim Cushing) Administration Officials Perform Some Very Public Handwringing Over Extrajudicial Drone Killing (via Techdirt) The administration has sort of painted itself into a corner with its new rules on drone…

Top Ten Things Bob Gates was Wrong about, Some Criminal

(By Juan Cole) Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his new memoir is said to have slammed Vice President Joe Biden for having been consistently "wrong" on foreign policy matters over…

The Year in Drone Strikes: As Many as 35 Civilians Dead, 5 Children

(By Alice K Ross and Jack Serle) In 2013 the number of drone strikes to hit Pakistan fell to the lowest levels of Obama’s presidency: 27 strikes reportedly hit the country’s tribal…

Uygur: Bush Targetting of Juan Cole proves that NSA can’t be trusted with our Personal Data

Cenk Uygur at Young Turks makes the point that the National Security Agency and other US intelligence (services who are ending up with massive amounts of electronic surveillance information on Americans --whether…

Tony Blair let the American NSA Spy on Millions of Britons and Store their Private Data

The Guardian and Channel 4 News report that Tony Blair allowed the US National Security Agency to spy on millions of Britons, and to record and store their browser history and email.…