Source: Democracy Now! February 9, 2010 The Obama administration has acknowledged it’s continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens abroad. The confirmation came from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in congressional testimony last week. Blair said, “Being a US citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives [...]

Fuente: IPS por William Fisher NUEVA YORK, 5 feb (IPS) – Defensores de las libertades civiles y juristas reaccionaron este viernes a lo que describieron como “la ejecución deliberada de ciudadanos estadounidenses alejados de toda actividad hostil, si el Poder Ejecutivo determina en forma unilateral que se ajustan a una definición secreta de enemigo”. La reacción respondió a [...]

Source: Salon by Glenn Greenwald February 4, 2010 Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive Branch) to be Terrorists.  As The Washington Times‘ Eli [...]

por Robert Parry (ConsortiumNews.com), Andrew Hughes (Global Research), Allan Nairn (Democracy Now!) y Roxana Tiron (The Hill)* 8 de octubre, 2009 Al mantener Obama al republicano Robert Gates como secretario de Defensa puso a los jefes militares de la administración Bush en posiciones clave del Pentágono. Durante los últimos dos años de Bush, Gates fue el ejecutor [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio Counterintelligence, Cybersecurity Stressed by Walter Pincus September 16, 2009 The top U.S. intelligence official said counterintelligence and cybersecurity would be given new emphasis under a four-year strategic plan he unveiled Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told reporters that although combating extremism, issuing warnings, countering weapons proliferation and supporting [...]

by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – In support of the official U.S. assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against NATO forces to Iranian [...]