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Operation Stall

McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat. It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA...

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John Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate...

On several occasions, I have pointed to the arbitrary system our classification system constructs. It asks government employees to spy on their colleagues. It permits agencies to conduct fishing...

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Where the Bodies Are Buried: A Constitutional Crisis Feinstein Better Be...

In a piece at MoJo, David Corn argues the Senate Intelligence Committee – CIA fight has grown into a Constitutional crisis. What Feinstein didn’t say—but it’s surely implied—is that without effective...

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State’s Funny View of Our Democracy

In addition to its story about the State Department talking points it “accidentally” got (see my post on that), the AP included the talking points themselves. The talking points are particularly...

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Leon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets

POGO has a story that adds a new twist to an old story. The old story is Leon Panetta, leaking classified info, in this case, leaking info on the Osama bin Laden raid to a Zero Dark Thirty executive....

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BREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly...

As I noted in this post, today John Brennan will try to convince Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss that their (well, really McCain and the Democrats’) 6,000 page report documenting that torture...

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Operation Stall

McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat. It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA...

View Article

John Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate...

On several occasions, I have pointed to the arbitrary system our classification system constructs. It asks government employees to spy on their colleagues. It permits agencies to conduct fishing...

View Article


Where the Bodies Are Buried: A Constitutional Crisis Feinstein Better Be...

In a piece at MoJo, David Corn argues the Senate Intelligence Committee – CIA fight has grown into a Constitutional crisis. What Feinstein didn’t say—but it’s surely implied—is that without effective...

View Article


State’s Funny View of Our Democracy

In addition to its story about the State Department talking points it “accidentally” got (see my post on that), the AP included the talking points themselves. The talking points are particularly...

View Article

Leon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets

POGO has a story that adds a new twist to an old story. The old story is Leon Panetta, leaking classified info, in this case, leaking info on the Osama bin Laden raid to a Zero Dark Thirty executive....

View Article

BREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly...

As I noted in this post, today John Brennan will try to convince Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss that their (well, really McCain and the Democrats’) 6,000 page report documenting that torture...

View Article

Operation Stall

McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat. It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA...

View Article


John Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate...

On several occasions, I have pointed to the arbitrary system our classification system constructs. It asks government employees to spy on their colleagues. It permits agencies to conduct fishing...

View Article

Where the Bodies Are Buried: A Constitutional Crisis Feinstein Better Be...

In a piece at MoJo, David Corn argues the Senate Intelligence Committee – CIA fight has grown into a Constitutional crisis. What Feinstein didn’t say—but it’s surely implied—is that without effective...

View Article


State’s Funny View of Our Democracy

In addition to its story about the State Department talking points it “accidentally” got (see my post on that), the AP included the talking points themselves. The talking points are particularly...

View Article

Leon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets

POGO has a story that adds a new twist to an old story. The old story is Leon Panetta, leaking classified info, in this case, leaking info on the Osama bin Laden raid to a Zero Dark Thirty executive....

View Article


BREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly...

As I noted in this post, today John Brennan will try to convince Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss that their (well, really McCain and the Democrats’) 6,000 page report documenting that torture...

View Article

Operation Stall

McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat. It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA...

View Article

John Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate...

On several occasions, I have pointed to the arbitrary system our classification system constructs. It asks government employees to spy on their colleagues. It permits agencies to conduct fishing...

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