Tag Archives: CIA

Fox News Terrorism Expert Wayne Simmons Arrested For Being Fake Terrorism Expert

Fox News terrorism analyst Wayne Simmons has been charged with fraud for falsely claiming to be a former CIA agent. Via the Daily Mail: Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, pretended to be an ‘Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer’ for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000, the US Attorney’s Office for Virginia’s Eastern District said in a statement released …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Any credible investigation should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted what became known as the torture memos. There are many more names that could …

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Karl Rove Defends Torture

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Bryan Fischer: Terrorism Suspects Have No Right Not To Be Tortured

In other words, Fischer endorses “rectal feeding.”

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Editorial Of The Day

From the New York Times: The litany of brutality, lawlessness and lack of accountability serves as a reminder of what a horrible decision President Obama made at the outset of his administration to close the books on this chapter in our history, even as he repudiated the use of torture. The C.I.A. officials who destroyed videotapes of waterboarding were left …

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Tweet Of The Day

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FBI Warns Of Torture Report Backlash

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Sen. John McCain Denounces Torture

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Tweet Of The Day

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Senate Releases “Grisly” Torture Report

Via the New York Times: A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, and that its methods were more brutal than the C.I.A. acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to …

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The CIA Joins Twitter

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White House Mistakenly Reveals Identity Of Top CIA Official In Afghanistan

Teabagistan has having a field day.

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CIA Declassifies Area 51

Another blow to the conspiracy theorists. A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada’s Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes. The CIA’s story about the legendary test site is contained in “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: …

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Code Pink Forces Suspension Of Senate Confirmation Hearing For CIA Director

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Another First: CIA Recruits Gay Spies

In what they say is a first-ever event, today the CIA is holding a recruitment event in association with the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Steve Rothaus has the story at the Miami Herald: “This is the first one ever,” said Michael Barber, the CIA’s LGBT Community Outreach and Liaison program manager. “This is the first of what …

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Perkins Slams Petraeus

“Think about it. The man running our nation’s top clandestine organization couldn’t keep his own affair secret. And he’s one of the best people we have in public service? If General Petraeus will compromise here, what’s to say he won’t or didn’t compromise elsewhere? This idea that character doesn’t matter runs completely counter to God’s instructions for choosing leaders. Apart …

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Headline Of The Day

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CIA Director Resigns Over Affair

CIA director and four-star former Army General David Petraeus resigned today, citing an extramarital affair. From his resignation letter: Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an …

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ACLU’s Memo To Bachmann

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Crazy Eyes: ACLU Runs The CIA

From one of my favorite YouTube commenters.

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