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2/3/2012 Fact Checking the Media
During an interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent news reports lately, you'd think otherwise. The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that doesn't exist. For example, The New York Times incorrectly reported last month that the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran concluded that their nuclear program had a military objective. The paper's public editor, Arthur Brisbane, was forced to acknowledge their mistake and wrote: "Some readers, mindful of the faulty intelligence and reporting about Saddam Hussein's weapons program, are watching the Iran nuclear coverage very closely." Other media outlets such as National Public Radio, PBS and The Washington Post have been challenged on their coverage too. A recent publication from the Center for Strategic and International Studies titled "The IAEA's Iran Report and Misplaced Paranoia," noted that "With few exceptions, these revelations are not exactly new. More importantly, neither is the thrust of the report: that Iran is developing some capabilities that can only be understood as preliminaries to the development of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, early coverage of the report's release gives the opposite impression." Many have recognized that the media failed to do its job in the lead-up to the Iraq war. The potential consequences of treading on that same path with Iran are grave. The U.S. has thus far spent over $1.2 trillion of borrowed money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military action against Iran would be disastrous for the region and for U.S. moral standing. A serious diplomatic track based on mutual trust and respect is the only way to achieve increased transparency. (Dennis Kucinich)
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posted: 2/13/12      
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5/9/2011 10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax
Every indication clearly points to last Sunday’s raid being a manufactured ploy to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration

Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence that clearly indicates the whole episode has been manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration so that they can be easily manipulated in the run up to the 2012 election. Here are ten facts that prove the Bin Laden fable is a contrived hoax…. 1) Before last Sunday’s raid, every intelligence analyst, geopolitical commentator or head of state worth their salt was on record as stating that Osama Bin Laden was already dead, and that he probably died many years ago, from veteran CIA officer Robert Baer, to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to former FBI head of counterterrorism Dale Watson. In addition, back in 2002 Alex Jones was told directly by two separate high level sources that Bin Laden was already dead and that his death would be announced at the most politically opportune moment. Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under five different Presidents, serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Nixon, Ford and Carter, told the Alex Jones Show last week that Bin Laden died of marfan syndrome shortly after he was visited by CIA physicians at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001. 2) The official narrative of how the raid unfolded completely collapsed within days of its announcement. First there had been a 40 minute shootout, then there was no shootout and just one man was armed, first Bin Laden was armed then he was not, first Bin Laden used his wife as a human shield and then he did not. First the compound was described as a “$1 million dollar mansion” then it turned out to be a rubbish-strewn dilapidated compound that was worth less than a quarter of that. Almost every single aspect of the official narrative has changed since Obama first described the raid last Sunday as the White House struggles to keep its story straight. (Prison Planet)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       5
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5/4/2011 Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound
The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.

Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off. A photograph released by the White House appeared to show President Barack Obama and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound. In an interview with PBS, Mr Panetta said: "Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information. "We had some observation of the approach there, but we did not have direct flow of information as to the actual conduct of the operation itself as they were going through the compound." (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       5
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10/3/2010 CIA backed by military drones in Pakistan
The CIA is using an arsenal of armed drones and other equipment provided by the U.S. military to secretly escalate its operations in Pakistan by striking targets beyond the reach of American forces based in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The merging of covert CIA operations and military firepower is part of a high-stakes attempt by the Obama administration to deal decisive blows to Taliban insurgents who have regained control of swaths of territory in Afghanistan but stage most of their operations from sanctuaries across that country's eastern border. The move represents a signification evolution of an already controversial targeted killing program run by the CIA. The agency's drone program began as a sporadic effort to kill members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network but in the past month it has been delivering what amounts to a cross-border bombing campaign in coordination with conventional military operations a few miles away. The campaign continued Saturday amid reports that two new CIA drone strikes had killed 16 militants in northwest Pakistan, following 22 such attacks last month. (Washington Post)
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posted: 10/3/10                   0       23
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7/10/2010 Charles S. Robb and Charles Wald: U.S. must be prepared to attack Iran
When President Barack Obama signed into law tough, new legislative sanctions against Iran last week, he capped a month of new measures against that country’s nuclear program. Earlier in June, the Obama administration achieved a new round of U.N. Security Council sanctions, and the European Union declared plans to adopt additional sanctions in July. This activity, the culmination of months of negotiations, is welcome. Absent a broader and more robust strategy, however, sanctions alone will prove inadequate to halt Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. (Madison)
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posted: 7/27/10                   0       7
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2/3/2010 More Al Qaeda Attacks This Year? Top intelligence officials predict that a possible Al Qaeda terror attack in the next three to six months on U.S. soil is a serious concern (CBS)
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2/2/2010 DNI & CIA Chief Predict Terrorist Attack In Next 6 Months (FOX)
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posted: 2/23/10      
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2/2/2010 Intel chief: Al-Qaida likely to attempt attack
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said with changes made since the Dec. 25 attack, U.S. intelligence would he able to identify and stop someone like the Detroit bomber before he got on the plane. But he warned a more careful and skilled would-be terrorist might not be detected. (Comcast)
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posted: 2/23/10                   0       11
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1/5/2010 Obama to Add Air-Security Steps as Screening Expands
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents got “useful, actionable intelligence” from Abdulmutallab when they questioned him in the hours after the flight landed, Gibbs said. (Bloomberg)
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posted: 1/28/10                   0       15
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1/3/2010 CIA Director: Terror attack likely within 6 months
CIA Dir. Leon Panetta told members of Congress that al-Qaida is deploying operatives to carry out new assaults in the U.S. (ABC)
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posted: 2/3/10                   0       13
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8/24/2009 Top prosecutor orders probe into interrogations; Obama shifts onus
Attorney General Eric Holder has asked federal prosecutor John Durham to examine whether CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists were illegal, the Justice Department announced Monday (CNN)
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posted: 8/24/09                   0       17
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8/19/2009 Report: CIA hired Blackwater contractors for secret hit squad
The specter of private contractors carrying out assassinations on behalf of the US government has been raised in a New York Times article that says the CIA hired contractors from security firm Blackwater to help carry out its recently-revealed hit squad program (The Raw Story)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       15
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8/2/2009 Panetta: 'Reality' of 9/11 excuses Bush scandals
CIA director and Democratic appointee Leon Panetta, in an article published Sunday, said Democrats must recognize that the “reality” of 9/11 is what drove the conduct of the George W. Bush administration in the months following September 11, 2001, which somehow should justify not looking into suspected crimes (The Raw Story)
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posted: 8/7/09                   0       11
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7/20/2009 House probe of covert CIA program could target Cheney
“The House Intelligence Committee will move forward with a full investigation that will explore certain CIA programs and the core issue of how the committee is kept informed,” (The Raw Story)
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posted: 7/24/09                   0       11
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7/17/2009 House Intel Committee to probe CIA hit squad program
“This investigation will focus on the core issue of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed..." (The Raw Story)
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posted: 7/21/09                   0       10
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7/15/2009 CIA death squads 'copied Mossad'
former senior officials as saying that in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the former administration approached the Central Intelligence Agency to form the teams (Press TV)
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posted: 7/20/09                   0       13
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7/14/2009 CIA linked to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination? It follows a move by the new CIA director Leon Panetta to cancel a secret plan to find and kill Al-Qaeda leaders (Russia Today)
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posted: 7/17/09                   0       14
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7/11/2009 Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy (New York Times)
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posted: 7/17/09                   0       14
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7/10/2009 Lawmaker won't deny secret CIA program was 'Cheney assassination ring'
Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the Bush Administration was running an “executive assassination ring” which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney (The Raw Story)
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posted: 7/17/09                   0       16
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6/22/2009 The Secret History
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?

Panetta had become an advocate for secrecy so quickly, a White House official joked, that "it's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'" (The New Yorker)
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posted: 6/15/09                   3       32
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6/15/2009 Cheney Smells Blood in the Water
CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." (Military.com)
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posted: 6/15/09                   6       25
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6/14/2009 Cheney almost wishing US was attacked, Panetta says
"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics," Panetta told the New Yorker. "When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics." (The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/15/09                   3       23
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6/12/2009 Bin Laden 'is still in Pakistan'
Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is still hiding in Pakistan, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon Panetta has said (BBC)
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posted: 6/12/09                   6       26
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6/11/2009 Osama bin Laden hiding in Pakistan, CIA says
Intelligence agents deployed to Pakistan to assist in the search for the al-Qaida leader (London Guardian)
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posted: 6/12/09                   6       28
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6/9/2009 CIA Urges Judge to Keep Detainee Papers Secret
Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work (Associated Press)
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posted: 6/11/09                   8       28
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5/23/2009 U.S. Relies More on Aid of Allies in Terror Cases
relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/26/09                   3       23
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5/20/2009 CIA head: J'lem knows not to attack Iran
Israel knows it needs to coordinate its strategy on Iran with other nations and that attacking Teheran's nuclear facilities would mean "big trouble" (Jerusalem Post)
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posted: 5/20/09       9       26
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3/3/2009 Feds probably won't charge anyone for destroying CIA tapes
Interrogators, incinerators likely to escape charges (The Raw Story)
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posted: 5/21/09                   4       23
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2/17/2009 Obama's War on Terror May Resemble Bush's in Some Areas
During her confirmation hearing last week, Elena Kagan, the nominee for solicitor general, said that someone suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law — indefinite detention without a trial — even if he were captured in a place like the Philippines rather than in a physical battle zone. (New York Times)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       12
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1/8/2009 10 Things You Didn't Know About Leon Panetta
Democratic sources revealed Panetta is Obama's pick to lead the CIA

Since leaving the Clinton White House in 1997, Panetta has remained active in public life. He is codirector of a think tank, the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University—Monterey Bay. He also served on the Iraq Study Group and the Board of Directors for the New York Stock Exchange and has taught at Santa Clara University. (US News & World Report)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       7
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1/7/2009 An Awful Pick
Obama Opts To Politicize Intelligence

Earth to President-elect Obama: Intelligence is serious (New York Post)
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posted: 5/27/09                   2       26
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1/7/2009 Barack Obama's new CIA boss signals end of waterboarding and rendition
Barack Obama has broken with the controversial intelligence practices of George Bush by appointing a former White House official with no relevant experience to lead the CIA (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/21/09                   3       24
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9/13/1994 Radar Detected Airplane before White House Crash
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posted: 6/18/09                   2       18
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