Alan Gilbert: "The description in James Risen's New York Times article yesterday - below - of the desperate meeting of the psychologist/torturers in the US 'intelligence" apparatus with the leadership of the APA following the released photographs about Abu
Ghraib and trying to hide the obvious is hilarious - these are the keystone cops of "intelligence" - though the light this meeting casts on a kind of pseudo-neutral, "value-free" "professionalism" in the social sciences (political science as well) which serves the Pentagon and the CIA is anything but."
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Och om man säljer ut svenska medborgare till utländsk makt så är det det ultimata förräderiet, gränsande till statskupp, säger han. Har USA agerat i Sverige som i Norge är det brottsligt: Om bevakningen av svenskar ägt rum utanför ambassadområdet, rör det
Charles Arthur and Steve Bogganguardian.co.uk, Monday 25 April 2011"Using a £49 piece of communications equipment and software freely available for download from the internet, the investigation established that crooks could set up bogus Wi-Fi "gateways"
Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Tuesday 5 February 2013 The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize In September 2011, it killed US citizen Anwar Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed Awlaki's 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike in Yemen.
Economist, Jan 3rd 2008: "Pakistan's role in developing and disseminating nuclear-weapons technology around the world has long been known to America, a new book contends." “The Nuclear Jihadist” exposes in detail how Mr Khan, an affable, mediocre metallurgist inspired by the dream of an Islamic bomb, stole nuclear technology from the Dutch laboratory in which he was working in the mid-1970s, moved back to Pakistan to build a giant enrichment complex to make the bomb at Kahuta in Punjab province, and then created a nuclear Wal-Mart to sell the parts to others. The authors describe his work as the linchpin of the “second nuclear age”. "The story of Richard Barlow, a CIA agent who once worked in its directorate of intelligence on proliferation, sums up the American attitude." Douglas Frantz, an investigative journalist and former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, and his wife, Catherine Collins, also a journalist, know how to weave complicated material into a persuasive narrative.