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Obama's Intelligence Director Says Qaddafi Could Win, Gets in Trouble
Jim Newell · 03/10/11 05:25PMPresident Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was called to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, and stupidly tried to give an honest assessment of difficult foreign policy situations in response to questions asking for that. Now he's in big trouble, or at least Lindsey Graham wants him to resign.
American Arrested In Pakistan Worked With Covert CIA Team
Jim Newell · 02/21/11 02:45PMKey Iraq War Source Admits He Made It All Up
Jim Newell · 02/15/11 05:41PMRafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, an Iraqi defector under Saddam Hussein whose claims about the former dictator's mobile biological weapons programs were used heavily in the Bush Administration's public case for war, has an interesting story to tell everyone. The source, who, under the alias "Curveball" in intelligence reports, provided a foundation for Secretary of State Colin Powell's famous speech to the United Nations a month before the Iraq invasion, admits that he just made it up to get Hussein out of power.
Attractive People Are Smarter Than Ugly Ones
Richard Lawson · 01/17/11 01:14PMSailor Caught Selling Top Secret Docs to Undercover Agent
Jim Newell · 12/06/10 01:50PMThe FBI Suspected Bill Kristol's Dad of Consorting With Soviet Spies
John Cook · 12/03/10 11:22AMYour Guide to Canada's Favorite Anti-American Primetime Dramas
Adrian Chen · 12/01/10 10:27PMAre Dogs Smarter Than Cats?
Max Read · 11/23/10 03:24AMThis Strain of E. Coli Can Solve Sudoku Puzzles
Max Read · 11/17/10 01:20AMPentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir
Jim Newell · 09/10/10 03:49PMWikileaks Releases CIA Memo About United States as 'Exporter of Terrorism'
Jim Newell · 08/25/10 02:17PMPost-9/11 Intelligence Apparatus Enormous, Wasteful, Intractable
Jim Newell · 07/19/10 11:16AMObama's Intelligence Director Resigns
Max Read · 05/21/10 02:31AMBill Kristol to Taliban: Keep an Eye Out for Barack Obama at About 6:30 PM on Friday
John Cook · 09/29/09 01:56PMCIA Not Happy That They Might Get In Trouble
Pareene · 08/28/09 09:50AMStupid People.
Andrew Belonsky · 08/27/09 05:15AMToday In Torture
Pareene · 08/24/09 02:07PMCIA Chief Accused of Rape in Algeria
Pareene · 01/28/09 02:33PMMeet the Man Who Started the War in Iraq
ian spiegelman · 06/22/08 09:47AMRafid Ahmed Alwan (left), the Iraqi refugee code-named "Curveball" whose nonsense reports about Saddam Hussein's mobile bio weapons labs to German Intelligence officers helped pave the way for invasion, is speaking publicly for the first time. And he's pissed. "'For what I've done, I should be treated like a king,' he said outside a cramped, low-rent apartment he shares with his family [somewhere in Germany]. Instead, the Iraqi informant [...] has flipped burgers at McDonald's and Burger King, washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant and baked pretzels in an all-night bakery. He also has faced withering international scorn for peddling discredited intelligence that helped spur an invasion of his native country. Now, in his first public comments, the 41-year-old engineer from Baghdad complains that the CIA and other spy agencies are blaming him for their mistakes."