Published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: t r u t h o u t by Barry Eisler January 26, 2010 I’m just about finished with Tim Weiner’s phenomenal “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.” Two themes are at the heart of the book. First, the Agency has been incompetent from its inception. The roster [...]

Fuente: IPS por William Fisher NUEVA YORK, 22 ene (IPS) – El gobierno estadounidense de Barack Obama oculta pruebas de que tres muertes de prisioneros en la base militar de su país en Guantánamo, Cuba, declaradas como suicidios pero que no fueron tales, según abogados, activistas de los derechos humanos y expertos en seguridad nacional. La inquietud recrudeció [...]

Source: Harper’s Magazine by Scott Horton January 18, 2010 1. “Asymmetrical Warfare” When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo Naval Base [...]

Also see below:  Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Source: The Nation by Jeremy Scahill January 6, 2010 A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at [...]

Fuente: World Socialist Web Site Traducción: Felisa Sastre, La Haine Los agentes de la CIA ejecutados eran los responsables de la elección de objetivos para los ataques con Predator por Bill Van Auken 7 de enero, 2010 Desde el ataque suicida que acabó con la vida de 7 agentes de la CIA y un espía jordano, se ha producido una [...]

Published in Amauta with special permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse January 10, 2010 It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones.  As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were [...]

Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse January 3, 2010 According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger.  We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin. We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom.  After all, the shock [...]

see article U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion below Source: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald December 29, 2009 “In all their alleged allegedness, this Administration has an allergy to the concept of war, and thus to the tools of war, including strategy and war aims” — Supreme Tough Guy Warrior Mark Steyn, National Review, yesterday. “The White [...]

Source: The Guardian US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank by Ian Cobain (in Ramallah) December 17, 2009 Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned. Less than a year [...]

versión en español de la misma noticia abajo Source: New York Times by James Risen and Mark Mazzetti December 10, 2009 WASHINGTON – Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities – clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, [...]