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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: Bob Grenier, former CIA station chief in Islamabad, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing about Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
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Bob Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Al-Qaeda threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan. View Photo »
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CIA Director Leon Panetta, right, meets with Imam Husham Al-Husainy at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. View Photo »
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CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 during the iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. View Photo »
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CIA Director Leon Panetta addresses the media at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. View Photo »
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CIA Director Leon Panetta, right, meets with Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich. , Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. View Photo »
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In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. View Photo »
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BOSTON - AUGUST 29: Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta arrives for the funeral service for Sen. Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica August 29, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. View Photo »
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In this image from the CIA, the cover of a special review released Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, of a newly declassified CIA document describes how interrogators threatened to kill the children of one Sept. 11 suspect and may have threatened to sexually assaul... View Photo »
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FILE -- In this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo, CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks with reporters, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - JULY 19: A model walks the runway at the CIA.Martima 2010 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at the Beachway at The Raleigh on July 19, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida. View Photo »
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The relationship between the White House and the CIA on covert action hasn’t changed at all
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But listen to this. What a great idea. The CIA has a plan now, they're going to grab Osama bin Laden when he shows up for jury duty. They're going to get him, cuff him, outta here!
SOURCE: The Seferm Post -
If Musharraf was to go down south (exit) ... there’ll be a traffic jam! There’ll be the CIA, Mossad and RAW jumping in to grab your nuclear facilities. It will be a free-for-all. The ISI and the Pakhtoons are terribly concerned.
– Seymour Hersh SOURCE: Dawn -
Panetta is known to have expressed America's aim of the sharing India-centric real time intelligence between the CIA and Indian intelligence, apart from discussing issues relating to the presence of terror groups in neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan and its impact on India and South Asia
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In neighboring Poland, prosecutors in the capital of Warsaw have opened a criminal probe into reports that the CIA operated a prison for al-Qaeda suspects near a former military air base.
SOURCE: Salon -
Jeff Stephens is a writer to watch. His first book, Targets of Deception, is a very solid, fast paced thriller that carries the reader on a globe-trotting adventure into the world of counter-terrorism. We will want more of CIA agent Jordan Sandor.
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Lee Harvey Oswald killed nobody at all. John Kennedy was killed by a major force. The simplest way to describe it is the CIA
– Jim Garrison SOURCE: KLAS - Las Vegas Now -
The Federal Reserve has more power than the CIA
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The government of Liberia associated in so many ways in exchange of information with the CIA. Throughout my presidency, an agency of my government collaborated with the CIA
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The organization [NPFL] provided information to the CIA. The NPFL at the time did provide information to the CIA and there was information from the CIA to us too. There was exchange of information, mostly from between 1991-92
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The organization [NPFL] provided information to the CIA. The NPFL at the time did provide information to the CIA and there was information from the CIA to us too. There was exchange of information, mostly from between 1991-92
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I can think of a lot of uses I could make of a HIG team while waiting for someone to be captured in Afghanistan ... There’s no reason the HIG couldn’t be used domestically. There’s a ban on the CIA doing things in country, so they might just have to use FBI interrogators or interviewers. But aside from ...
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One of those memoranda dated August 1 2002, from Mr J S Bybee, Assistant Attorney-General, to Mr John Rizzo, acting General Counsel of the CIA, made clear that the techniques [the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed] described were those employed against Mr Zubaydah, alleged to be a high-ranking member of...
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The big problem I have is that you’re criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we’d have mixed theories and we couldn’t turn him over—to the CIA, the FBI or military intelligence—for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now we’re saying that he is the subject to criminal cour...
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The big problem I have is you're criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we have mixed theories and couldn't turn him over to the CIA, the FBI, military intelligence for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now you're saying he's subject to criminal court in the United State...
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Isn't it an advantage that the FBI doesn't think like the CIA?
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comprehensive strategy against him and Pakistan's atomic programme had been drawn at a secret meeting between Musharraf and former CIA director George Tenet
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Prosecutor John Durham is investigating the wrong people ... The CIA agents who carried out these interrogations were acting under orders which came directly from the chair of the Group of Principals, Condoleezza Rice. Under the principle of command responsibility, she is accountable.
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Eric Holder wants these trials in the U.S. in order to bring down the CIA.
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bloated government, deficits and health-care bills; paralysis over Afghanistan and Iran; the convulsions over Gitmo and the CIA torture memos.
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had also collected tens of millions of dollars through a classified CIA programme that pays for the capture or killing of wanted militants, a clandestine counterpart to the rewards publicly offered by the State Department
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The ISI has used the covert CIA money for a variety of purposes, including the construction of a new headquarters in Islamabad... that project pleased CIA officials because it replaced a structure considered vulnerable to attack: it also eased fears that the US money would end up in the private bank acc...
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The CIA payments are a hidden stream in a much broader financial flow... the US has given Pakistan more than USD 15 billion over the last eight years in military and civilian aid
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The ISI has used the covert CIA money for a variety of purposes, including the construction of a new headquarters in Islamabad, the capital. That project pleased CIA officials because it replaced a structure considered vulnerable to attack; it also eased fears that the US money would end up in the priva...
SOURCE: Times of India
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