Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Tag Archives: CIA
Obama Administration Will Continue Massive Secret Budgetary Outlays
“The Black Hole” NSA headquarters, Ft. Meade, Maryland.Big Increases for Intelligence and Pentagon “Black” Programs in 2010By Tom Burghardt / May 13, 2009 Continuing along the dark path marked out by his predecessors in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama’s … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged CIA, National Security Agency, Obama Administration, U.S. Military
Leave a comment
Preserving the Evidence of CIA Secret Detentions
The Combatant Status Review Tribunal Notice is read to a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 13. Photo by Airman Randall Damm, USN.CIA Director Asked to Preserve Secret PrisonsBy William Fisher / April 17, 2009 NEW YORK — Lawyers for … Continue reading
Leon Panetta’s CIA : Getting Away With Torture
CIA Director Leon Panetta at his ceremonial swearing-in on Feb. 19, 2009. Photo by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters.Hope Abandoned:Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos By Chris Floyd / April 11, 2009 It was obvious from the moment that Barack Obama appointed … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Bush Legacy, CIA, Leon Panetta, Obama Administration, Torture, War Crimes
1 Comment
Houston : The Unexplained Death of Spook Roland Carnaby
Roland Carnaby, left, in an undated photo with Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt taken at a HPD Policeman’s Ball. Photo provided by family / KHOU.com. Roland Carnaby had claimed to be a CIA agent and showed identification. The CIA quickly … Continue reading
Afghanistan Warlords, the CIA and the Little Blue Pill
Illustration by Matt Weems / Afghanistan Watch.‘The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.’ By Joby Warrick / December 26, 2008 The Afghan chieftain looked … Continue reading
From Those Who Know : Torture Just Doesn’t Work
Artist: Fernando Botero / truthout.Tortured reasoning: The tactical errors of prisoner abuse.By David Rose George W. Bush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, CIA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Interrogation Techniques, Terrorism, Torture, US Intelligence, War on Terror
Leave a comment
Cheney Admits to Torture Role; Says He’d Still Waterboard
Vice President Dick Cheney says he approved waterboarding at Guantanamo. If I said what I’d like to say on reading this (and hearing it all day), the NSA agents who are monitoring this board would be sending the Secret Service … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged al-Qaida, Bush Administration, Cheney, CIA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Torture, War Crimes, War on Terror, Waterboarding
1 Comment
Spain an Accessory to CIA Rendition Flights
Afghan detainees are walked to a Chinook helicopter for transport bySpecial Operation Forces. Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty. “However, if, for unseen reasons, an emergency landing were necessary, the U.S. government would like the Spanish government’s authorization to use one of our … Continue reading
Iran Nuke Documents May Have Been Forged
The parade of Bush administration fabrications to achieve their objectives seems endless. I guess it’s gotten them what they’ve wanted so frequently and with little hassle that it’s a strategy that’s hard to set aside. Richard Jehn / The Rag … Continue reading
Guantanamo Torture : CIA Officers Could Face Trial in Britian
‘British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured after being arrested and questioned by American forces.’By Robert Verkaik / October 31, 2008 Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged 9/11, CIA, Criminal Justice, Great Britain, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Terrorism, Torture, War on Terror
Leave a comment
American Indians and the CIA : Buying Silence With Advertising
Hopi elder Dan Evehema, sitting on a couch at his home on the Hopi mesa in 1996, warned: “Don’t take grant funding, they will control you.”How advertisers like the CIA and FBI use dollars to control and silence people.By Brenda … Continue reading
Nixon: "Our Hand Doesn’t Show On This, Though"
35 Years After Original 9/11: New Transcripts of Kissinger’s Role in Chilean CoupBy Peter Kornbluh / September 13, 2008 When Henry Kissinger began secretly taping all of his phone conversations in 1969, little did he know that he was giving … Continue reading
