Articles tagged with the keyword: ‘CIA’

This Time It’s Pregnant Women: Another Atrocity In The Bush/Obama Afghanistan War

This Time It’s Pregnant Women: Another Atrocity In The Bush/Obama Afghanistan War

Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl. And once again the US media remain mute, accepting the official story, which was of ISAF forces responding to an attack which in reality appears never to have happened.

CIA Alleged Militant Link In Iran

There are claims America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran. The allegations come from a militant group’s leader who was captured in Iran on Tuesday. He says he met CIA agents in Pakistan, who promised to supply arms to his organisation a claim Washington denies.

Intelligence Failures Of The Highest Order: 9/11 And Christmas 2009

Intelligence Failures Of The Highest Order: 9/11 And Christmas 2009

n 2009, we had two additional intelligence agencies, a czar for national intelligence and an intelligence budget of more than $75 billion. In all three cases, there was sufficient intelligence available to prevent the attacks. In all three cases, however, our intelligence efforts were unimaginative, divided and diffuse. A blizzard of warnings went unheeded in all three cases. The United States had broken the Japanese military code, which provided many warnings of a decision to attack the United States. In the case of 9/11, the Central Intelligence Agency received warnings from foreign liaison intelligence services, including the French, German, Israeli and Russian services.

Obama: ‘Buck Stops With Me’ in Handling Terror Threats

Here’s the full transcript of President Obama’s remarks this afternoon:
State Dining Room, 4:34 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. The immediate reviews that I ordered after the failed Christmas terrorist attack are now complete. I was just briefed on the findings and recommendations for reform, and I believe it’s important that the American people understand [...]

Italy’s Justice System Treads Where US Courts Won’t

Italy’s Justice System Treads Where US Courts Won’t

The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called “a nation of laws, not men” to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive crime spree by U.S. officials (and their Italian accomplices) would not have begun.

Ex-British Ambassador: CIA Brought Prisoners To Uzbekistan To Be ‘Raped With Broken Bottles’

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray says UK and the US sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured.
“I’m talking of people being raped with broken bottles,” Murray said. “I’m talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I’m talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence [...]

New Details About CIA Secret Prisons And the Systematic Torture Of Prisoners

President Obama has cut a swathe through the Bush-era National Security Program, forcing the CIA to close its secret overseas prisons and ban harsh interrogation methods. Russia Today’s Anastasia Churkina spoke to Human Rights lawyer John Sifton, who reveals the truth behind CIA secret prisons – the controversy, the lies, the torture, and the blacked-out [...]

America’s Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA

America’s Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA

Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, just imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: “Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work.”

Report: Drone Strikes Increased Dramatically Under Obama

Report: Drone Strikes Increased Dramatically Under Obama

Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, “innocent bystanders, including children,” according to published reports.

Judge’s Ruling Confirms Innocent Gitmo Detainee Tortured To Make False Confessions

Judge’s Ruling Confirms Innocent Gitmo Detainee Tortured To Make False Confessions

A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from Guantanamo last week, was brutally tortured into making false confessions by U.S. interrogators and repeatedly threatened until he confessed to terrorist activities he was not involved in.

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