Sunday, August 30, 2009

CIA News/Commentary Updates -- August 30, 2009

Aerial view of the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
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Ex-Intelligence Officials Cite Low Spirits At CIA -- Washington Post

IG Report's Release, Looming Investigation Into Detainee Interrogations Blamed.

Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general's review of the agency's interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former intelligence officials, especially those associated with the program.

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More News On The CIA

Transcript of Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday' -- FOX News
Cheney: Enhanced Interrogations 'Essential' in Saving American Lives -- FOX News
Cheney Slams Obama's 'Politicized' Probe of CIA Interrogations -- FOX News
Cheney: Politics driving CIA interrogation probe -- AP
Go-ahead for torture inquiry plunges CIA into turmoil -- Times Online
Special Prosecutor for CIA Interrogation Probe Described as Relentless -- FOX News
CIA head in furious torture row -- The Telegraph
On National Security, We're Talking Tough Guys Vs. The Wimps -- CBS News
A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth -- New York Times
The CIA and Interrogations: A Bad Fit from the Start -- Time Magazine
All We Ever Do Anymore is Fight -- Newsweek
Blackwater tapped foreigners on secret CIA program -- AP
CIA Internal Report Hints at Impact of Harsh Interrogations on 9/11 Mastermind -- FOX News
WaPo: How CIA interrogation turned KSM into an intelligence asset -- Hot Air

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials On The CIA

It's Never a Quick Fix at the CIA -- Loch K. Johnson, Washington Post opinion
Intelligence Dilemmas -- Arthur I. Cyr, Korea Times opinion
The CIA in Double Jeopardy -- Jospeh Finder, New York Times opinion
It's almost torture to watch Leon Panetta & the CIA's slow, steady decline -- S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News opinion
Torture inquiry needed, however inconvenient -- Eugene Robinson, Kansas City opinion
President Obama should pardon CIA interrogators -- Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
The Fall Guy -- Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Eric Holder's Hidden Agenda -- Andrew C. McCarthy, CBC/NRO opinion
It's Never a Quick Fix at the CIA -- Loch K. Johnson, Washington Post
Does It Matter Whether Torture Worked? -- Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

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