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Posts Tagged ‘CIA’

Panetta threatened to quit because Holder wanted to investigate CIA torture

Now that Holder has started the investigation that can only mean Obama must have ok’ed it.
Apparently there were screaming matches. Panetta is clearly toast even though everyone is doing the silly D.C. dance about how everything is fine, just fine – after it deliberately got leaked, of course.

Michael Jackson, Madoff, the CIA

Michael Jackson’s death ruled homicide by LA coroner
And not manslaughter? Yikes.
Prison denies Madoff dying of cancer.
I mean, Lordy folks, The NY Post quoted unnamed sources quoting inmates who say Madoff told them he has cancer, and they didn’t even ask the prison for confirmation. This is just garbage journalism. Let me spell it out. Bernie [...]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month

Thus he was waterboarded an average of six times a day for a month. The frequency of the waterboarding and the methods used were in violation of the CIA’s own directives.
Sign the petition telling Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture.
This would seem to destroy the neocon argument that torture [...]

Computer surveillance by CIA?

We welcome Josh “UJ” Mull as a Polizeros contributor.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 3, I was doing some research for the latest episode of Alive in Baghdad, specifically looking for Iraqi reactions to President Obama’s speech announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. One of the reactions I came across was [...]