The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defense experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India. The IISS issued an explosive report on Afghanistan that says […]
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Al-Qaeda Taliban threat exaggerated by the western powers
September 14, 2010CIA Director Leon Panetta defends ‘targeted assassinations’
October 25, 2009The CIA has its own predator program, credited with targeting terrorists in Pakistan, where we are not at war. CIA Director Leon Panetta said on ABC that when the CIA uses predators to launch hell fire missiles, the targets are enemies of the U.S. Panetta denied Jane Mayers report in the New Yorker Magazine that […]
The CIA’s Post-Torture Profits
August 26, 2009Monday’s release of the long-awaited CIA report on the agency’s role in torture and interrogation is the official word on the Bush-Cheney “war on terror”. In gruesome detail, it shows how untrained CIA interrogators and private contractors, blessed by their superiors, inflicted detainees captured in the Middle East with “enhanced interrogation techniques”. CIA director Leon […]
One out of three intelligence workers is a contractor
August 25, 2009Following reports the CIA hired private parties to be assassins, former U.S. intelligence officials estimate one out of three intelligence workers is on contract. Such former bosses as Michael Hayden, who headed the CIA from 2005-2009 and the National Security Agency from 1999-2005, Michael Chertoff, who ran the Department of Homeland Security, and Jack Devine, […]
