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That is what the American President was proposing to the President of Ukraine—that an American citizen, or two, be subject to the mercies of a foreign judicial system known to be corrupt. Extraordinary rendition, the secret transfer of suspected...
by hannah
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on Sun Feb 02, 2020 at 04:02 AM PST
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Historical events occur twice, Karl Marx famously said, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to the rampant lawlessness of Republican presidential administrations, the record is a ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Apr 21, 2019 at 09:30 AM PDT
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WaPo: CIA director flies to Turkey amid growing controversy over Jamal Khashoggi killing
CIA Director Gina Haspel departed for Turkey on Monday amid a growing international uproar over Saudi Arabia’s explanation of the killing of journalist Jamal...
by koNko
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on Mon Oct 22, 2018 at 06:13 PM PDT
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“You’re a Whole Different Person When You’re Scared” could well be a kind of theme song for American culture, at least since the assassination of Kennedy, which is to say for most of my life, and it would probably be equally appropriate for me...
by Passage2Truth
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on Sat Aug 19, 2017 at 02:10 PM PDT
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On Sunday, March 6 from 12pm to 3pm EST, CSPAN2, also known as Book TV, will be hosting Jane Mayer to talk about her work. Jane Mayer is a staff writer at The New Yorker and most recently the author
by gmoke
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on Sun Feb 28, 2016 at 07:14 PM PST
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The dumbest man on television?
The neoconservative uberpundit Bill Kristol continues to have theories on why he continues to find an American program of torturing ...
by Hunter
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on Thu Dec 18, 2014 at 08:26 AM PST
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ArsTechnica has a new story up on the NSA documents released in this Intercept article. I will quote from both throughout.
According to newly published documents, the National Security Agency has ...
by LieparDestin
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on Tue Aug 26, 2014 at 05:38 AM PDT
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Back-story:
New York City, Washington DC, Stonycreek Township: Americans on aviation fueled missiles, doomed to crash into World Trade Center, Pentagon and a Somerset County Pennsylvania field, ...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Aug 05, 2014 at 08:55 AM PDT
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past ...
by DWG
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on Sun Jul 27, 2014 at 07:24 AM PDT
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Former CIA chief Michael Hayden thinks ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Jul 10, 2014 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Endangered: The North American Whistleblower
When Edward Snowden turned over his trove of classified documents to the press, the propaganda machine for the security state immediately shifted ...
by dougiemac in WA
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on Fri Jun 27, 2014 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Tom Engelhardt :
With Cartwright as a possible exception, the members of the national security state, unlike the rest of us, exist in what might be called "post-legal” ...
by Hunter
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on Wed Apr 23, 2014 at 08:30 PM PDT
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Originally published in Tikkun Daily |
Over a year ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to adopt a historic, 6,000-page report which contains " startling details " about CIA misdeeds ...
by David Harris Gershon
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on Sat Dec 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM PST
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We can't "let Syria cross a line without consequences", but we don't want to do regime change or take out Assad, but we do want to maintain our 'credibility', but we can't get the U.N. to ...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Aug 28, 2013 at 08:09 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here .Â
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t Living in a One-Superpower World (or ...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jul 29, 2013 at 07:27 AM PDT
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NOT SNARK! (With Updates)
You can run, but you can't hide. (The CIA has many chiefs, but one Director. This fellow was not the Director.)
The former chief of the Milan CIA Office, Robert Seldon ...
by phillies
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on Thu Jul 18, 2013 at 12:02 PM PDT
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I wouldn't call it 'burying the lede' but there was an interesting tidbit in the last two paragraphs of this story.
Snowden's Leaks on China Could Affect Its Role in His Fate
By KEITH BRADSHER ...
by david78209
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on Fri Jun 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM PDT
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How quickly the GOP forgets:
US Attorney firings
On December 7, 2006, eight US attorneys were notified that they would be fired. Most came from swing states. Most were considered not to have ...
by JLFinch
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on Fri May 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM PDT
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I just have to say that I believe there's not a snowball's chance in hell that our government will cooperate with this case. Fortunately, even though President Obama dropped the ball on extracting ...
by markthshark
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on Wed Mar 06, 2013 at 04:25 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here .
There was a scarcely noted but classic moment in the Senate hearings on ...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Feb 18, 2013 at 08:21 AM PST
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