Obama's CIA-on-Campus Program
Jon Wiener : Higher Education
Shrouded in secrecy, "intelligence officer training" conflicts with universities' commitment to openness and free inquiry.
2009
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Flushing Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater
Recent disclosures of Blackwater's covert activities may finally force Congress to take action.
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The Secret Government
Christopher Hayes : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
An effective investigation into the breadth of the CIA's interrogation programs must be bipartisan, similar to the work of the Church Committee in the 1970s.
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Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater
The mercenary firm has a long and dark history with the CIA. Were they Bush and Cheney's private hit men?
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The Cheney Gang
The Editors : Dick Cheney
If the vice president ordered the CIA to deceive Congress, he broke the law--and must be held accountable.
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The CIA's Truth Problem
Tim Weiner : Torture
Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did?
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Time for the Reckoning?
David Cole : Torture
Momentum is growing for some form of official accountability on the Bush administration's practice of torture, surveillance and detentions without trial.
2008
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The CIA's Jose: Case Study in Cynicism
Long before a top bureaucrat was exposed for destroying secret interrogation tapes, the CIA shrouded his identity, making the press corps complicit in practices that would offend the nation's conscience.
2007
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Congress to CIA Torturers: 'If Only You'd Told Us'
The agency's secret destruction of tapes is a parable of the futility of oversight.
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Crime and Cover-Up
: Torture
The CIA tapes' destruction and violation of anti-torture statutes they recorded require a special prosecutor.
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Waterboarding Democracy
Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?
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Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels
CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
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False Alarm
A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director--and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.
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The Martyrdom of Che Guevara
The CIA's role in his assassination managed to turn a failed--and flawed--guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
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George Tenet's Evasions
His new memoir proves how hard it is to tell the truth about oneself but how easy it is to blame others.
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Tenet's Treachery
Bush's chief spook knew the Administration's treachery on Iraq from the start. But he never revealed it to Congress or the public.
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Scootergate: The Trial
In the case against Scooter Libby, the Iraq War is not on trial. But the integrity of the White House is.
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