Torturas, programas secretos e ilegalidades, forman parte indisoluble de sus “tareas” por Marta G. Sojo (inter@bohemia.co.cu) 16 de octubre de 2009 Hay comentarios históricos de que nunca la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) olió bien. No pocos se preguntan por qué tanta “novedosa” sorpresa entre algunos personajes, si es evidente que las prácticas de esta entidad nunca han [...]

by Jeff Bliss September 19, 2009 The growing strength of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan prompted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to establish more bases there, the agency’s director said. The extra CIA operatives are supporting the 17,000 additional troops President Barack Obama authorized soon after taking office this year, as well as the civilian government employees helping [...]

Es imposible leer el recién publicado informe de la CIA sobre la tortura de prisioneros musulmanes sin pensar en el Tercer Reich por Ted Rall 3 de septiembre, 2009 Al diablo con la Ley de Godwin – Es imposible leer el recién publicado informe de la CIA sobre la tortura de prisioneros musulmanes sin pensar en el Tercer [...]

by Mark Mazzetti September 1, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency’s defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations. The C.I.A.’s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration [...]

by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane August 24, 2009 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor on Monday to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, after the Justice Department released a long-secret report showing interrogators choked a prisoner repeatedly and threatened to kill another detainee’s children.

by Mark Mazzetti August 19, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because of its aggressive tactics [...]

by Michael Doyle July 20, 2009 Washington – A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered former CIA director George Tenet and five other CIA officials to explain their actions or face [...]

read English (original) version below Matando la esperanza, sembrando el terror por Manuel García, Jr. 15 de julio, 2009 En junio de 2009, Leon Panetta, director de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) – la Guardia Pretoriana de EE.UU. que guía el curso del Imperio del Área del Dólar – anuló un programa para asesinar a dirigentes de al-Qaeda, [...]

• Congressional calls for formal investigation mount • Agency officials believe they’re caught up in political war

Congress is outraged that Cheney concealed a CIA program to assassinate al Qaeda leaders, but they should also be investigating why Obama is continuing—and expanding—U.S. assassinations.