Adam Goldman LaBonte’s family had promised him they wouldn’t talk about his work. They kept that pledge as they mourned in private after he died along with six other CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer in the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in late December. Even now, months after his burial, […]
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MAY 28, 2010 Confidential Conundrum By JOHN O. MCGINNIS There is an obvious tension between a democratic public’s need for information—its right to know—and the government’s need, at times, for operational secrecy. A broad sense of what officials are doing is at the heart of any democracy, and not only in principle: Collective wisdom in
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Updated: Wed., May. 26, 2010, 1:06 AM Just another act of deadly treason By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 1:06 AM, May 26, 2010 Posted: 11:41 PM, May 25, 2010 Yesterday, The New York Times published another front-page article based on a leaked classified document. This time, it was an order signed by Gen. David Petraeus
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Washington Times Thursday, May 6, 2010 Ex-CIA lawyer: Gitmo IDs graver than Plame leak Eli Lake and Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Covertly taken photos of CIA interrogators that were shown by defense attorneys to al Qaeda inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison represent a more serious security breach than the 2003 outing of CIA
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MAY 12, 2010 Shahzad and the Pre-9/11 Paradigm By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Some good news from the attempted car bombing in Times Square on May 1 is that—at the relatively small cost of disappointment to Broadway theater-goers—it teaches valuable lessons to help deal with Islamist terrorism. The bad news is that those lessons should already
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– Associated Press – May 03, 2010 U.S. Releases Details of Nuclear Weapons Inventory The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming WASHINGTON — The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and
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On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran, Robert Baer explains, offering searing new details about the attack
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