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... - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a half-dozen other federal agencies involved in intelligence gathering, demanding the immediate release of reports about potential misconduct. EFF ... in the dark about a plan to train anti-terrorist assassin teams has brought the lack of transparency in intelligence reporting to a head. Lawmakers have accused the CIA of deliberately misleading Congress and are calling for an investigation ...

... , machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or ... that the techniques "approved by the Attorney General have been subject to an extensive review by lawyers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Justice and the National Security Council and found to be within the law." ...

[JURIST] Congressional lawmakers announced Saturday that House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on legislation that would overhaul the US intelligence structure pursuant to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The agreement is reported to create a new post that would jointly oversee all civilian spy agencies in the US, including the Central Intelligence Agency; a new National

[JURIST] US President-elect Barack Obama [transition website] on Friday announced his nominations for the top posts [press release] in the US intelligence community, designating Admiral Dennis Blair to be Director of National Intelligence and Leon Panetta [profile] to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website]. Obama also announced that John Brennan will serve as

[JURIST] Nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] Leon Panetta [profile] testified [testimony, PDF; materials] Thursday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee [official website] that he would perform his duties according to the law while upholding the Constitution. Panetta said:I believe the Director should be responsible for shaping the role of CIA in

[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee [official website] will launch an investigation into plans by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] to assassinate al Qaeda members, the Committee announced [press release] Friday. The Committee has already requested documents [Washington Post report] from the CIA and will likely hold hearings, according to

... deceptions designed to reduce attentiveness; the victim was in a state of denial about what forms of attack are hardest against which to defend; intelligence officers were reluctant, for career reasons, to challenge the conventional threat narrative; and warnings to local ... 9/11 Commission Report, Congress sought to centralize even further an already heavily top-down institutional structure, to fix perceived coordination problems among intelligence agencies. The effect was simply to add another ...

... done by the NSA: The National Security Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance, has been building essentially the same system. The central role the NSA has come to occupy in domestic intelligence gathering has never been publicly disclosed. But ... a judge's approval when a link to al Qaeda is suspected. The article continues, discussing how the debate over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and immunity for telecommunications companies is only getting at the tip of the iceberg:

... with something to convey how worried I am. Granted, I am always worried. Anyway, I've been looking for some intelligent commentary on the financial crisis we have just embarked upon. Here is some. (Here's the original meme sans ... Fed as quasi-fiscal recapitaliser of first resort. Since 1997, the Fed has long been the least operationally independent central bank in the industrial world. This latest episode suggests its main current purpose is to be an unaccountable quasi-fiscal agent for the US ...

... Peterson, & Stubb, supra note 12, at 45. [20] Id. at 46. [21] Central Intelligence Agency, supra note 16. [22] President Barroso, [ec.europa.eu] (last visited ... ). [23] Bomberg, Peterson, & Stubb, supra note 12, at 51. [24] Central Intelligence Agency, supra note 16. [25] Bomberg, Peterson, & Stubb, supra note 12, ... [43]Id. [44] Human Rights First, supra note 38. [45] Stratfor Global Intelligence, EU and the Lisbon Treaty, Part 2: The Coming Institutional Changes, http://www.stratfor.com ...