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17 May 2012, 8:31 pm by Chris Borgen
The private spying operation, which The New York Times disclosed last year, was tapped by a military desperate for information about its enemies and frustrated with the quality of intelligence from the C.I.A… As for what happened when the operation was discovered: On May 15 [2010], according to a classified Pentagon report on the private spying operation, [Clarridge] sent an encrypted e-mail to military officers in Kabul announcing that his network was being shut down because the… [read post]
16 May 2007, 7:06 pm
.* * * *The C.I.A. seized the terrorists' computers, cellphones and personal phone directories, said the officials familiar with the program. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 9:13 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Scott Shane at the Times dissects Obama’s announcement on Friday about the death of Al-Aulaqi, noting the absence of “drone” and “C.I.A. [read post]
16 May 2007, 7:06 pm
.* * * *The C.I.A. seized the terrorists' computers, cellphones and personal phone directories, said the officials familiar with the program. [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 8:56 pm by Jeralyn
White House officials are debating whether the C.I.A. should take over the Yemen campaign as a “covert action,” which would allow the United States to carry out operations even without the approval of Yemen’s government. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 7:18 pm
Rizzo, acting general counsel at the C.I.A., advising that the "conditions of confinement" in the agency's overseas prisons were permitted by the Geneva Conventions (pdf).A 2004 letter to Dan Levin, acting assistant attorney general, describing the C.I.A.'s use of interrogation tactics in combination (pdf).Constitutional attorney Glen Greenwald is highly critical of the limited scope of the Holder announcement: Holder's decision does not amount to the… [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 2:19 pm by Kenneth Anderson
The drones, operated by the C.I.A., fly overhead sometimes four at a time, emitting a beelike hum virtually 24 hours a day, observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry, they said. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 2:23 pm by Kenneth Anderson
The drones, operated by the C.I.A., fly overhead sometimes four at a time, emitting a beelike hum virtually 24 hours a day, observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry, they said. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 10:43 am
Notice the change even in how we talk about torture evidenced in the following statement from a NY Times article: "The C.I.A. confirmed last week that one of the six defendants, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the chief plotter of the 2001 attacks, was subjected to the technique known as waterboarding, considered by many legal authorities to be torture, while in C.I.A. custody. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 7:14 am
There is a reason why our clients' ordeals were so similar: The C.I.A.'s interrogation program is remarkable for its mechanistic aura. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 9:46 am by Sandy Levinson
This may put in further context the quote attributed to Obama,"The C.I.A. gets what it needs," regarding the use of drones for what are, after all, targetted assassinations in a country (Pakistan) with which we are not at war. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 2:54 am by Seán Binder
 The most recent and final expert testified on Friday that years of isolation and torture by the C.I.A. meant that al-Nashiri’s memories and account of his action were unreliable. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 11:35 pm
I believe the evidence at Scooter Libby's trial established that Cheney was livid over Wilson and that he used the C.I.A., the State Department and the Department of Defense to search for dirt on him. [read post]
28 May 2011, 3:28 am by SHG
De Sousa was a C.I.A. officer posing as a diplomat, the most common kind of cover for intelligence agents working abroad. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 5:27 am by Jack Goldsmith
  Late last month a “draft of a Trump administration executive order” that “raised the prospect of reviving C.I.A. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 9:52 am by Jordan Brunner
The New York Times tells us that the C.I.A. told senior lawmakers in classified briefings last summer that it had information indicating that Russia was working to help elect Trump to the presidency, but decided not to disclose the information to the public until after Trump had secured his electoral victory. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 12:03 pm by Deborah Pearlstein
   Nominee for CIA Director Mike Pompeo opposed President Obama’s decision in 2009 to close C.I.A. black-site prisons and also to require interrogations to comply with the rules of the Army Field Manual. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 10:58 am by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
As the New York Times describes: The Postal Service on Thursday said it “deeply regrets our mistake in inappropriately releasing” the official personnel file of Abigail Spanberger, a former C.I.A. operative now running as Democratic candidate for Congress, and requested that a Republican-aligned super PAC return the file. [read post]