by Lisa Pease July 10, 2009 On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question? The Agency has a long history of manipulating Congress and others to support its programs. That this was posed as an [...]

by Farooq Sulehria July 10, 2009 A columnist in the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv told his readers on the day of election in Iran: “If you have friends in Iran, try to convince them to vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today. There is no one who will serve Israel’s PR interests better than him.” (12 June 2009)

by Scott Shane July 11, 2009 The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

by Pamela Hess July 11, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they’re still too secret to reveal.

by Scott Shane July 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

por Ernesto Wong Maestre Sentir en la propia mejilla, el golpe dado a la mejilla de otro, esté donde esté, es andar junto al Che Guevara en cualquier rincón del mundo en que ocurra una injusticia. Hoy en el Congo las transnacionales cometen miles de injusticias.  El Che fue precisamente en 1964 al Congo, recien liberado [...]

por Andy Worthington 1 de julio, 2009 En estos últimos días se ha estado discutiendo mucho acerca de la publicación, largamente esperada (y dos veces retrasada), del Informe de 2004 del Inspector General de la CIA, que, como Glenn Greenwald explicó el martes [30 de junio], “cuestiona con toda firmeza la eficacia y la legalidad” de las [...]

por Eva Golinger 2 de julio, 2009 El Presidente Manuel Zelaya fue secuestrado y llevado forzadamente por militares encapuchados desde la residencia presidencial en Tegucigalpa durante la madrugada del domingo, 28 de junio. Fue trasladado a la base militar de Hernán Acosta Mejía en las afueras de Tegucigalpa. Luego de permanecer durante un tiempo en la base [...]

by Pierre Tristam June 24, 2009 “Operation Enduring Freedom is ostensibly being fought to uphold the American Way of Life. It’ll probably end up undermining it completely,” the Indian writer Arundhati Roy wrote in 2001, in “The Algebra of Infinite Justice.” Roy took a lot of grief for that piece from American public opinion, hijacked at the [...]

by Ira Chernus May 18, 2009 Here’s the CIA’s briefing memo for President Obama, in preparation for his talk with Benjamin Netanyahu — in my fantasy. If the CIA was really giving the president the information he needs, it would read something like this: Mr. President: The Israeli Prime Minister will tell you that he wants the Palestinians to [...]