Thursday, March 25, 2010

LATEST NEWS

(AUGUST, 2010)
FIRST WOMEN TO HEAD A MAJOR INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CNN)

(MARCH, 2010)
The Navy is reviving old tactics

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Monday, March 8, 2010

THE WAR ON TERROR

>> PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH:


>> STILL HUNTING OSAMA BIN LADEN (NOV. 2010)




>> AL-AWLAKI THREATENS AMERICANS


>> A RELENTLESS ENEMY (NOV. 2010, 60 MIN.)



>> OBAMA APPROVES KILL LIST (Center for Const. Rights)

>> CALL FOR MORITORIUM OF DRONE STRIKES (NY TIMES)


>> PARAMILITARY PRESENCE IN AHGHANISTAN LARGER THAN THOUGHT (Whasington Post, Sept. 2010)

>> Sept. 2010
CIA trained military group in Pakistan

>> August 14, 2010 US widens war on Al-Queda NY Times


>> August 15, 2010 Secret Assault on Terrorism (CNN)


>> Unraveling the case fo Bryant Vinas (Nic Robertson, CNN)

>> May 14, 2010 American Jihad (Nic Robertson CNN)


>> May 14, 2010 Brian Ross reports on training camps in Yemen (ABC News)




>> (APRIL, 2010) Brian Ross Investigative Report on a secret CIA prison.

STORY: ABC News Story link

VIDEO



(MARCH, 2010)
Interview with White House Chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel: Closing Guantanamo, the trial of KSM, ect.

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(MARCH, 2010)
Some groups have raised questions about lawyers who in the past defended Guantanomo Bay detainees and are now working within the Justice Department.


Pelosi responds to reports that, as the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, she was made aware of EIT's such as waterboarding.



See story associated with this video: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/pelosi.waterboarding/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCText


Obama may allow prosecution of former Bush officials over the legal justifications that allowed the use of enhanced interrogation techniques (CBS story April 21, 2009)




Jack Bowers

Author, Seymour Hersh claims that new powers are being exercised by the U.S. military that places them almost at the status of a rogue military unit. They are not checked by congress and very little informatin is released concerning their personal, organization, and operations. Ready the story: The Comming Wars, New Yorker Magazine 2005
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact?printable=true