Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wow, the corruption is/was worse than even my imagination is capable of thinking up… and the DoJ isn’t taking action? WTF?
The former employees who filed the lawsuit, a married couple named Brad and Melan Davis, said there was little financial oversight of the money.
Last year, an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction [...]
Previous CIA failures regarding the unanticipated decline and fall of the Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the run-up to the Iraq War demonstrate a $75 billion intelligence enterprise that can provide neither strategic nor tactical warning to policymakers and is reluctant to provide uncomfortable truth to power.
The serious problems that [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
In an interview with the Pakistani TV station Express TV, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that the private security firms Blackwater and DynCorp are operating inside Pakistan. “They’re operating as individual companies here in Pakistan,” Gates said, according to a DoD transcript of the interview. “There are rules concerning the contracting companies. If they’re contracting [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It’s a question that rarely gets asked: from where does the Obama administration locate the legal authority to launch missiles from the CIA’s unmanned drones into Pakistani (and, this week, Afghan) territory? The ACLU wants to know.
The civil liberties group today filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA and the Departments of [...]
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Also tagged ACLU, Afghanistan, CIA, DOD, DOJ, FOIA, Iraq, Law, Pakistan, Predator Drones, Transparency, Yemen
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table.
Rather than comply with a court order to provide lawyers in the case with what the U.S. government says is classified information, the government has [...]
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Also tagged Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v Obama, Burma, CIA, Courts, DOJ, Horn v Huddle, Law, Myanmar, Richard Horn, State Secrets Privilege, Wiretapping
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