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    • Italian newspaper searches draw protest

      Posted by Billbar from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Authorities seized papers, notes and computer files from La Repubblica's Cristina Zagaria, and also searched her house as well as that of Piccolo reporter Claudio Erne. "We are alarmed at the attitude of the judiciary, which is freely violating the secrecy of sources of investigative journalists," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said.

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    • CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent says

      Posted by Billbar from Chicago Tribune

      Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan. Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA's previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.

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    • Dalai Lama has links with CIA, Indian Army

      Posted by Billbar from Times of India

      China on Wednesday accused the Dalai Lama of collaborating with CIA and Indian armed forces to organise the 'Indian Tibetan special border troops'. They also accused him of being involved in a 'swindle' by using wrong facts to mislead world opinion about the situation in Tibet. The Dalai Lama continues to work for Tibetan independence under the guise of seeking autonomy for the region, China said in a statement.

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    • Sources: Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq “Civil War”

      Posted by Billbar from Harpers

      When the topic of a new NIE was first raised, the Directorate of National Intelligence agreed to consider the matter, but advocates heard nothing back. They raised the topic again several months ago and were told that Negroponte was still mulling over the matter. Since then, there's been no indication that the DNI intends to authorize a new NIE. “He's not going to allow [analysts] to call the situation warts and all,” said one source. “There's real angst about it inside.”

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    • Italy spy chief denies role in CIA kidnap

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      The head of Italy's military intelligence agency on Wednesday defended himself and colleagues being investigated for their possible role in the alleged CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan. Nicolo Pollari told a closed-door meeting of the Senate defense committee that the Sismi intelligence agency had "nothing to do with illegal acts" and would not break the law to help foreign agents.

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    muckraker comments on:

    Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance

    One of the many tragedies of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina three years ago was the fact that insurance companies used the event to systematically deny claims, leaving victims further in desperate straits. That shouldn’t happen following any natural disaster, and even though the immediate storm effects did not cause as much damage as predicted, there are sure to be plenty of claims for flood damages throughout the Midwest and along Gustav’s path. If you or someone you know has been denied an insurance claim related to Gustav: that would be a site you should visit.

     

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    9:10 pm 9/11/08
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    socean comments on:

    Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report

    I think we should waterboard all the "principals" until they confess.

     

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    3:12 pm 4/12/08
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    Jon comments on:

    Top court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit

    Kafka anyone?

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    11:39 am 2/20/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality

    No big surprise that there isn’t an iota of outrage in the United States about this.

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    11:03 am 7/05/07
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    Damianmann comments on:

    CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry

    RFK’s son was on “Hardball” today and says Kissinger’s comments are “revisionist” and completely untrue.

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    2:37 pm 6/22/07
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    Link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden: BCCI

    Tax documents and other financial records show that Bath, an aircraft broker with controversial ties to Saudi Arabia sheiks, had invested $50,000 in Arbusto, granting him a 5 percent interest in two limited partnerships controlled by Dubya.
    Time magazine described Bath in 1991 as “a deal broker whose alleged associations run from the CIA to a major shareholder and director of the Bank of Credit & Commerce.” BCCI, as it was more commonly known, closed its doors in July 1991 amid charges of multibillion-dollar fraud and global news reports that the financial institution had been heavily involved in drug money laundering, arms brokering, covert intelligence work, bribery of government officials and%u2014here’s the kicker%u2014aid to terrorists.
    Bath was never directly implicated in the BCCI scandal, but according to The Outlaw Bank, an award-winning 1993 book by Time correspondents, Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, Bath originally “made his fortune by investing money for [Sheikh Kalid bin] Mahfouz and another BCCI-connected Saudi, Sheikh bin Laden,” reportedly the brother of none other than Osama bin Laden, the man accused by the U.S. government of masterminding the August 1998 terrorist bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed more than 250 people.
    According to court documents, Bath swore that in 1977 he represented four prominent and wealthy Saudi Arabians as a trustee and used his name on their investments in the United States. In return, he received a 5 percent interest in their deals. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya’s Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath’s Saudi clients since the Houston businessman “had no substantial money of his own at the time.”
    The FBI and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network later investigated Bath after allegations were made by one of his American business partners that the Saudis were using Bath and their giant piggy bank to influence U.S. policy. (Dubya’s father had been appointed by President Ford to head the CIA from 1976%u201377.)

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    8:48 pm 4/06/07
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    Jeff comments on:

    NY Times slams Bush's 'nasty and bumbling comments' on US Attorney firings; Calls on Congress to sub

    It continues to amaze me how most Americans aren’t offended and outraged by the idea that public officials should be allowed to testify in private, not under oath and without a transcript.

    Isn’t not under oath code for needing to lie without repercussions?

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    11:55 pm 3/20/07
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    pakalert

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    We tell you what they don’t! Historiography, in-depth analysis, views, news and opinions.

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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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