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President Obama, the CIA and the Master of the Cover-Up
The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the appointment of John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, to head the internal investigation of the intelligence failures that led to the Christmas …
Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented
The recent furor over an unsuccessful terrorist attempt to blow up an airliner is distracting us from considering the possibility of a vastly more destructive terrorist act: exploding a …
Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented (2)
The recent furor over an unsuccessful terrorist attempt to blow up an airliner is distracting us from considering the possibility of a vastly more destructive terrorist act: exploding a …
Does Congress Want to Default on the National Debt?
The deficit hawks in Congress are pushing again to establish a special commission to deal with the problem of the deficit. They are trying to include a provision establishing …
Fear and Paranoia as Guantánamo Marks Its Eighth Anniversary
On the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the fate of the 198 prisoners still held is, in many ways, no clearer than it was a year ago. …
Spitzer, Black and Partnoy | Tip of the Iceberg
In a December New York Times op-ed, we called for the full public release of AIG email messages, internal accounting documents and financial models generated in the last decade. …
Afghanistan: Necessity Isn’t Always Just
As Americans usher in a new year and new decade, they find themselves confronted with old problems: war and terror. The epicenter of these problems has shifted from Iraq …
“Bush Sold Arab States Arms in Violation of Deal With Israel“
The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the US promised to preserve the IDF's qualitative edge over Arab armies, according to senior officials in the …
Yemen: The Mood in Sanaa
Sanaa, Yemen - In an unassuming mosque, adorned only with graffiti and ancient stained-glass windows, about 30 women and children sat on the floor, listening to a sermon. The …
The Shadow War
Making sense of the new CIA battlefield in Afghanistan. It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 …