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8 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘CIA’

Washington’s Darkest Secret

By Charley James • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
With George Bush, Dick Cheney and several surrogates telling interviewers that the 9/11 attacks couldn’t be anticipated, they were – not surprisingly – lying. As a result, this article Charley James first published in April 2005 at The Dissident Voice bears repeating as the outgoing administration tries rewriting history. The article reveals that a CIA “mole” [...]


Beyond Exposing The Forgery: The Real Message Of Ron Suskind’s Book

By Charley James • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics
by Charley James
Most of the discussion of Ron Suskind’s The Way of the World has focused on a single anecdote: The White House ordered the production of a rather clumsy forgery of a letter from the head of the Iraqi intelligence service to Saddam purporting to prove that Muhammad Atta trained in Iraq and that [...]


Mandatory Baghdad Foreign Service Tours

By Denis Campbell • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
(Reprise article)
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained by The Associated Press.
First one must applaud members of the Foreign Service for their [...]