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"[D]on't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead." The 'Salvador Option': Pentagon Plans to Train Iraqi Death Squads 'The Salvador Option': The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq (1/08/2005; - Newsweek)
Reported by Newsweek: What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon's latest approach is being called "the Salvador option" — and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried... [More...]
Posted Sat 05/21/2005
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Bombshell: Chalabi & Top INC Official Are Spies for Iran; Op Inadvertently Paid for by Pentagon Iran used Chalabi to dupe U.S., report says (5/22/2004 - Seattle Times)
The US-backed Iraqi National Congress was actually a front for Iranian intelligence, which used the group to help bamboozle the US into invading Iraq and then to receive stolen US military secrets, some of it classified above top secret. Patrick... [More...]
Posted Sat 05/22/2004
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Pentagon Approved Tougher Interrogations (5/9/2004 - Washington Post)
From the Washington Post: In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit reversing the normal sleep patterns of detainees and exposing them to heat, cold and "sensory assault," including loud... [More...]
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
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Torture at Abu Ghraib: The Complete Taguba Report (part 1) U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse (5/4/2004 - MSNBC via Cryptome)
The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos. [More...]
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
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Torture at Abu Ghraib: The Complete Taguba Report (part 2) U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse (5/4/2004 - MSNBC via Cryptome)
(Continuation from part 1 of this post.) The full text of the secret Teguba Report, detailing the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by members of the US military. Includes the section on "ghost detainees" (prisoners secretly held with no record of their detention) that is missing from many public versions. Also includes photos. [More...]
Posted Sun 05/09/2004
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From Newsweek (4/5/2004): Ahmad Chalabi has never paid much attention to rules. As an international financier, he was convicted in absentia in 1992 of embezzling millions from his own bank in Jordan. In the mid-'90s, the CIA tried to make... [More...]
Posted Wed 04/14/2004
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Iraqi National Congress (INC) List of News Items Using Their Propaganda List of articles cited by the Information Collection Program (ICP) (3/15/2004 - Knight Ridder Washington Bureau)
List distributed by the Iraqi National Congress (INC) summarizing articles in major English-language news outlets worldwide (October 2001-May 2002) using propaganda information disseminated by their Information Collection Program (ICP). The goal of the ICP was to plant information (much of... [More...]
Posted Wed 04/14/2004
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Claim vs. Fact: Rice's 9/11 Testimony Dissected Rice Testimony Before 9/11 Commission (4/8/2004 - Center for American Progress)
Claim vs. fact – a factual counterpoint to the testimony of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (aka the 9/11 Commission) on April 8, 2004. Written by David J. Sirota and Christy Harvey and... [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Full Transcript: Condoleezza Rice's Sworn Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission, 4/8/04 Raw Data: Full Hearing Transcript (4/9/04 - FoxNews.com)
The complete transcript of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, on April 8, 2004. Includes her prepared opening statement as well as the question-and-answer session that followed. [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Scalia orders reporters to erase Constitution speech (4/8/2004 - USA Today)
Scalia orders reporters to erase Constitution speech AP via USA Today (4/8/2004) Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their tape recordings of a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Mississippi high school. Scalia has long... [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Declassified Docs & Audio Prove US Support for 1964 Brazil Coup Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup; Declassified Documents Shed Light on US Role (3/31/2004 - National Security Archive)
From the National Security Archive: "I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do," President Johnson instructed his aides regarding preparations for a coup in Brazil on March... [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Arrests key win for NSA hackers (4/6/2004 - Globe and Mail [Toronto])
Citing anonymous sources in the British intelligence community, The Sunday Times reported that an e-mail message intercepted by NSA spies precipitated a massive investigation by intelligence officials in several countries that culminated in the arrest of nine men in Britain and one in suburban Orleans, Ontario. It is the first time that routine US monitoring of e-mail traffic has led to an arrest. [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (text) Presidential Daily Briefing On Bin Laden, August 6, 2001 (4/10/2004 - FindLaw.com)
The full text (as declassified) of the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Transcribed from a photographic copy. The text below is formatted similarly to the original. All italics and name... [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (images) Presidential Daily Briefing On Bin Laden, August 6, 2001 (4/10/2004 - FindLaw.com)
Photo reproductions of the declassified version of the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001. Also, click here to download as a PDF (273kb). For a text transcript, go here.... [More...]
Posted Sat 04/10/2004
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Canadian Inquiry May Reveal CIA Secrets on Outsourcing Torture The Invisible Men (3/30/2004 - The Village Voice)
From The Village Voice: While the nation focused on Richard Clarke's allegations last week, CIA director George Tenet let slip other revelations in his testimony to the 9-11 Commission, admissions that sharpen the contours of the shadowy intelligence practice called... [More...]
Posted Wed 03/31/2004
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GOP Voter Survey Asks Who We Should Invade Next GOP Survey Question Draws Ire in Asia (3/27/2004 - AP via San Jose Mercury News)
A voter survey tied to a Republican effort to raise money for House candidates mislabels Thailand and the Philippines as countries that "harbor and aid terrorists," say officials from both governments. A question on the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Ask... [More...]
Posted Wed 03/31/2004
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Uncensored 'Hackergate' Report Accidentally Released; Perps' Names Revealed Report on the Investigation Into Improper Access to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Computer System (3/6/2004 - Cyptome)
An uncensored version of the Senate Sergeant At Arms' report on his investigation into Republican hacking of sensitive Democrat computer servers was accidentally released to journalists on March 4. The 67-page report includes the names of the partisan cyber-thieves, other... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
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FBI, Customs Stole Declassified Docs From AP in 2003 FBI & Customs Intercepts, Seizes Associated Press Mail (3/15/2003 - Subliminal News)
As reported here previously, in early 2003 the FBI and US Customs secretly "seized" a declassified government report being sent from one Associated Press reporter to another from a Federal Express facility in Indianapolis, IN. No warrant was ever issued,... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
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FBI 'Warned' Magazine in 2002 That FOIAed Docs 'Might' Be Stolen Bush Team Thumbs Its Nose at FOIA (4/8/2002 - Insight)
In early 2002, Insight magazine reported it had been visited by FBI agents who "warned" the editors that if documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act were given to the periodical, "someone" might steal them. The report takes on... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
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Kerry FBI Files Stolen From Author's Home in 'Very Professional Job' Historian: Kerry FBI files stolen (3/28/2004 - CNN.com)
From CNN: FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California. Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information,... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/30/2004
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GAO Says White House Lying About Drug Science is Perfectly Okay White House Gets Permission to Lie (3/11/2004 - Marijuana Policy Project press release)
Responding to a request by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, yesterday gave the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) unfettered permission to mislead the public in the... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/23/2004
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Bush Campaign Hires Paramilitary Security Firm Bush Campaign Paying Firm That Specializes In Paramilitaries (3/19/2004 - Daily KOS)
The Daily KOS blog reveals that FEC records show the Bush campaign has hired Vance International, one of the new breed of security firms offering everything from labor busting to sophisticated surveillance and infiltration to protection for international and government... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/23/2004
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Transcript: Richard Clarke on 60 Minutes, 3/21/04 Leslie Stahl interviews Richard Clark (3/22/2004 - 60 Minutes [CBS News])
CBS has not posted an official, full transcript of Richard Clarke's explosive appearance on 60 Minutes. Here is an unofficial rush transcript. Leslie Stahl interviews Richard Clark Sixty Minutes March 21, 2004 LESLIE STAHL: ... and was held over by... [More...]
Posted Tue 03/23/2004
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