We’ve been told that 9/11 changed everything.Is it true?Let’s look:The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this)The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White Ho…
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Dick Cheney’s Oily Dream
September 5th, 2010 |
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is currently saying that Dick Cheney’s vision of policy towards the Middle East after 9/11 was to re-draw the map:Vice-President Dick Cheney’s vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following…
U.S. Counterterrorism Officials Insisted that Crotch Bomber Be Let Into Country
February 5th, 2010 |
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Undersecretary for management at the State Department, Patrick F. Kennedy, told Congress that the State Department wanted to keep crotch bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab out of the U.S., but that intelligence agencies insisted that Abdulmutallab be l…
High-Level CIA Officers: “Reform” of Intelligence Agencies Has Made It MORE DIFFICULT to Stop Terrorism
January 9th, 2010 |
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Two former high-level CIA officers have said that the government’s recent “reform” of the intelligence services has made it more difficult to fight terrorism.Specifically, Jack Rice – a former CIA field officer – told Keith Olbermann yesterday that the…
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden
December 5th, 2009 |
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Evidence which has come out over the last couple of years makes it clear that top Bush administration officials knew that Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction and knew that Saddam had no connection with 9/11.It is now reasonably obvious that …
Instead of Fixing the U.S. Economy or Creating Jobs for AMERICANS, Obama Will Spend The Money in Afghanistan and Iraq
November 24th, 2009 |
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America is in the most severe unemployment crisis since – and perhaps including – the Great Depression.And yet Obama, like Bush, has done virtually nothing to create more jobs. Instead, they both gave trillions to the biggest banks (who are not loaning…
The Progress Report: Bush’s Secret Spy Programs
July 13th, 2009 |
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by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ian Millhiser and Nate Carlile To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox everyday,…
Cheney’s Secret “Unit Was So Secret That Even The Former CIA Director George Tenet Did Not Control Its Activitiesâ€
July 13th, 2009 |
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We know that the new director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, was kept in the dark for months about the secret counterterrorism program. But Scotland’s leading newspaper – the Scotsman – has a stunning new revelation: The unit was so secret that even the for…
Scott Atran: The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence
July 11th, 2009 |
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A new government report on the Bush administration’s surveillance of personal commmunications reveals a familiar pattern of intellectual deafness and moral abuse of the country.