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Various media pieces on defense. Gutting defense Obama to shrink armed forces The President’s Risky Defense Strategy President Obama’s defense strategy rests on shaky assumptions Obama military strategy: Is it bipartisan enough? U.S. right to focus on Asia The battle for the Pacific will reshape the world Military fighting force strategy set, but what will …
IRAQ: THE LEGACY OF DECEPTION AND ITS COSTS Susan Lindauer, Former CIA Back Channel to Iraq at the United Nations Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for …
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Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing Greg Miller Washington Post, 27 December 2011 The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential. …
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4 Star Generals Warn Against Against NDAA Indefinite Detention The Intel Hub December 21, 2011 Two four star Marine generals have written a stunning op-ed in the New York Times which demands that President Obama veto the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill that allows the government to use the military to indefinitely detain American …
If we accept this unnamed official’s argument at face value, then why is this program, and those like it, classified at the special access compartmented level. Could it be that the object of the excessive secrecy is keep the cost and some of the performance data from the American people so that they do not …
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Kandahar audiocassette collection A collection of more than 1500 audiocassettes from Kandahar. The collection is central to understanding al-Qaida’s emergence as an organisation before 9/11. A first inventarisation and description can be found in: Flagg Miller. Insight from Bin Laden’s audiocassette library in Kandahar. CTC Sentinel, 4(10), October 2011. An analysis of Flag Miler can …
70 Years of Lying About Pearl Harbor By davidswanson WarIsACrime.org, 04 December 2011 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s fervent hope for years was that Japan would attack the United States. This would permit the United States (not legally, but politically) to fully enter World War II in Europe, as its president wanted to do, as …
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