Journal: CIA Continues to Ignore Published Critics

Los Angeles Times October 31, 2010 Memoirs, Mistakes Converge As CIA Promises Reform Spies-turned-authors say the agency’s admitted ‘systemic failures’ in an Afghanistan suicide attack prove their allegations of myriad problems. But one veteran is being sued over his unapproved book. By Ken Dilanian Reporting from Washington–When CIA Director Leon Panetta gathered reporters recently to …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Mexican Cartels Threaten Massacres

Mexico: For the record. Suspected members of the Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel warned that they would kill 135 people after security forces seized 134 tons of marijuana last week in Tijuana, Baja California state, Milenio reported today, 25 October. The warning was made over a police radio frequency late on 24 October reportedly minutes after …

Journal: CIA Officer Blew Off Warning in Jordon Weeks in Advance of Jordanian Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan that Killed Seven

C.I.A. Was Told About Bomber of Afghan Base, Inquiry Finds By MARK MAZZETTI The New York Times  Published: October 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — Three weeks before a Jordanian double agent set off a bomb at a remote Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. officer in Jordan received warnings that the …