CIA
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Steve Coll on the killing of Osama bin Laden
New reporting by Steve Coll offers few new details on the bin Laden raid and only partially corroborates Sy Hersh’s account.
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Less Than a Week in Office, Trump May Erase Obama’s Real “Progress” in War on Terror
Today, New York Times journalist Charlie Savage published a three-page draft of an executive order that President Trump is preparing to sign. In short, the draft order would undo many of the actual reforms to the war on terror implemented by the Obama administration. (I say “actual” because many national security observers give Obama too…
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Fordham Students Condemn Revelations in the ‘Drone Papers’
Originally published in the Fordham Observer. In what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called the “most important national security story of the year,” The Intercept has published an eight-part exposé about the U.S. drone assassination program based on documents provided by a whistleblower within the intelligence community. The Drone Papers reveal the inner workings of President…
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CIA’s Human Rights Violations Honored By Fordham University
Students and faculty at Fordham University gather in orange jumpsuits to petition President McShane to revoke CIA Director John Brennan’s honorary degree. (Photo: Louie Dean Valencia-García) Originally published at Huffington Post. In May just before students and faculty left school for the summer – we are back now – Fordham University President Joseph M. McShane,…
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Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers: Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Double Standard for Leaks
Originally published at Huffington Post. “There are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy,” then-CIA director David Petraeus told his employees in 2012 of the successful conviction of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the…
Gunar Olsen 