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CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration
www.washingtonpost.com-August 27, 2010
The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials.
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Key Karzai Aide In Corruption Inquiry Is Linked To C.I.A.
www.nytimes.com-August 26, 2010
The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials.
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In Report, CIA Worried About U.S. Terror Exports
www.washingtonpost.com-August 26, 2010
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks. And if that phenomenon were to become a widely held perception, the analysis said, it could damage relations with foreign allies and dampen their willingness to cooperate in "extrajudicial" activities, such as the rendition and interrogation of terrorism suspects.
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CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen
www.washingtonpost.com-August 25, 2010
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.
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Cleric al-Awlaki dubbed 'bin Laden of the Internet'
www.usatoday.com-August 25, 2010
As a student at Colorado State, Yusuf Siddiqui remembered fellow student Anwar al-Awlaki as someone concerned mostly about the "simple-minded clichés" that characterized the way Muslims were depicted in American television and movies. He didn't express extremist views, and his criticisms of the United States were fairly benign, said Siddiqui, also a Muslim.
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WikiLeaks releases CIA document on 'exporting terrorism'
www.msnbc.com-August 25, 2010
A whistle-blowing website that drew the ire of U.S. officials for the release of classified Afghan war documents on Wednesday released what it says is a CIA memo that looks at the perception of the U.S. is an exporter of terrorism.
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Defense official discloses cyberattack
www.washingtonpost.com-August 24, 2010
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
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Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 21, 2010
Pentagon lawyers believe that online whistleblower group WikiLeaks acted illegally in disclosing thousands of classified Afghanistan war reports and other material, and federal prosecutors are exploring possible criminal charges, officials familiar with the matter said.
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WikiLeaks And Pentagon Disagree About Talks
www.nytimes.com-August 19, 2010
The Pentagon on Wednesday rebutted statements by the WikiLeaks organization that the Defense Department had expressed a willingness to discuss reviewing a trove of classified documents before public release.
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Antiwar Activists Rally Around Suspected Leaker
http://news.yahoo.com-August 19, 2010
The Army private suspected in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history has become a hero to many anti-war activists who have joined an international effort to free him.
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CIA forms new center to combat nukes, WMDs
www.apnews.myway.com-August 18, 2010
The CIA is opening a counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant.
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WikiLeaks 'will not be threatened' by Pentagon
www.msnbc.com-August 14, 2010
WikiLeaks will publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents within a month, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization's founder said Saturday.
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Pentagon Slams WikiLeaks' Plan To Post More War Logs
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 13, 2010
U.S. defense officials on Thursday responded angrily to WikiLeaks' plan to post additional Afghan war logs, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting that the move could further endanger the lives of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort.
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Defense Intelligence Community To Tighten Belt
www.associatedpress.com-August 12, 2010
The defense intelligence community is combing its budgets to figure out where to cut 10 percent of its contractors as part of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' drive to reduce costs in the Pentagon.
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Pentagon: undisclosed Wikileak documents 'potentially more explosive'
www.washingtonpost.com-August 11, 2010
Pentagon officials say they are sifting through 15,000 classified Afghanistan war documents for sensitive material that could harm troops or civilians--documents they believe the on-line site WikiLeaks has obtained and might disclose
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Pentagon's Top Cop Offers Lessons To Boston Police Conference
www.bostonglobe.com-August 10, 2010
The official in charge of protecting the Pentagon is in Boston today to brief law enforcement officials on the lessons from the recent shooting outside the military headquarters and outline the growing challenges security agencies face in protecting national landmarks and public buildings.
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U.S. Urges Allies To Crack Down On WikiLeaks
http://news.yahoo.com-August 10, 2010
he Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks. Philip Shenon reports.
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Early Struggles of Soldier Charged in Leak Case
www.nytimes.com-August 09, 2010
He spent part of his childhood with his father in the arid plains of central Oklahoma, where classmates made fun of him for being a geek. He spent another part with his mother in a small, remote corner of southwest Wales, where classmates made fun of him for being gay.
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First Woman To Head Major US Intelligence Agency
www.sanfranciscochronicle.com-August 09, 2010
The United States has had three female secretaries of state — but until now has never had a woman lead one of its 16 major intelligence agencies.
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WikiLeaks To Publish New Documents
www.washingtonpost.com-August 08, 2010
The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents.
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U.S. Tells WikiLeaks To Return Afghan War Logs
www.nytimes.com-August 06, 2010
The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that WikiLeaks “do the right thing” and remove from its Web site tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, and return to the military thousands of others that it had not yet made public.
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Pentagon demands that WikiLeaks give back leaked reports and not post others
www.washingtonpost.com-August 06, 2010
Eleven days after the renegade Web site WikiLeaks publicly disclosed more than 70,000 classified U.S. field reports from the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Thursday that it wants them back.
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Military Orders All Personnel To Stay Away From WikiLeaks Site
www.washingtontimes.com-August 06, 2010
The U.S. armed services are issuing internal messages to all personnel barring them from visiting the WikiLeaks website, which recently posted 77,000 classified diplomatic and military messages on the long war in Afghanistan.
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New Spymaster Wins Senate Nod
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 06, 2010
James Clapper won Senate approval Thursday to become the government's top spymaster after running a gauntlet of lawmaker concerns and overcoming last-minute barriers from Republicans.
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Pentagon demands Wikileaks return documents
www.washingtonpost.com-August 05, 2010
Eleven days after the renegade Web site Wikileaks publicly disclosed more than 70,000 classified U.S. field reports from the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Thursday that it wants them all back.
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Lawyers Win Right to Aid U.S. Target
www.nytimes.com-August 04, 2010
The Treasury Department on Wednesday granted permission to a group of human rights lawyers who want to file a lawsuit on behalf of a radical Muslim cleric thought to be hiding in Yemen. The Obama administration has authorized killing the cleric as a terrorist despite his American citizenship.
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Gates Cites Peril In Leak Of Afghan War Logs By WikiLeaks
www.nytimes.com-August 02, 2010
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates said Sunday that an announcement by the Taliban that they were going through classified military dispatches from Afghanistan posted by the Web site WikiLeaks “basically proves the point” that the disclosures put at risk the lives of Afghans who had aided American forces.
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Probe Of WikiLeaks Suspect Turns To Boston Acquaintances
www.washingtonpost.com-August 01, 2010
Before the online site WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about the Afghanistan war, government investigators interviewed Boston-area acquaintances of a military analyst charged with providing other documents to the site in an effort to prevent additional leaks, according to one person interviewed in the probe.
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White House: WikiLeaks Is Jeopardizing National Security
www.azcentral.com-July 31, 2010
The Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial.
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Army Broadens Inquiry Into WikiLeaks Disclosure
www.nytimes.com-July 31, 2010
Army investigators are broadening their inquiry into the recent disclosure of classified military information to include friends and associates who may have helped the person they suspect was the leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning, people with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.
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Taliban Study WikiLeaks To Hunt Informants
www.nytimes.com-July 30, 2010
A spokesman for the Taliban told Britain’s Channel 4 News on Thursday that the insurgent group is scouring classified American military documents posted online by the group WikiLeaks for information to help them find and “punish” Afghan informers.
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WikiLeaks' Fallout for U.S.-Pakistan Ties
www.cfr.org-July 30, 2010
The classified U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan leaked by WikiLeaks.org paint a grim picture of collusion between Pakistan's intelligence service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and members of the Afghan Taliban.
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FBI, Justice Dept. Help Investigate Source Of Leaked War Documents
www.washingtonpost.com-July 29, 2010
The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Pentagon officials condemn leak of Afghan war documents
www.washingtonpost.com-July 29, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday condemned the leak of tens of thousands of pages of classified military documents on the Afghan war, warning that the "battlefield consequences" are "potentially severe and dangerous" for American troops and allies.
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Gates Assails Document Disclosures by Wikileaks
www.nytimes.com-July 29, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday assailed the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the website Wikileaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets.
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Military Probe Again Targets Manning
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 28, 2010
Pfc. Bradley Manning, a military intelligence analyst charged with providing classified documents and video to WikiLeaks earlier this year, is the Pentagon's prime focus as it investigates the release of thousands of secret reports on the Afghanistan war, according to Defense Department officials.
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Army Officer A 'Person Of Interest'
www.latimes.com-July 28, 2010
A criminal investigation into the leaking of thousands of secret reports about the Afghanistan war is focused on an Army intelligence analyst already charged with disclosing classified information, two Defense Department officials said.
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Leaked Documents May Endanger Operatives, Officials Say
www.bostonglobe.com-July 28, 2010
Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the United States against the Taliban or Al Qaeda might be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of US military documents, former and current officials said.
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Report: Afghan leaks dangerously expose informants' identities
www.msnbc.com-July 28, 2010
The leaking of 90,000 U.S. intelligence documents has put hundreds of Afghan lives at risk because the files identify informants working with NATO forces, The Times of London reported on Wednesday.
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WikiLeaks Will Make Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan Harder
www.brookings.edu-July 28, 2010
In the wake of 9/11 there was an enormous shift in the way that counterterrorism intelligence was shared. No threat goes unreported now and intelligence goes to the maximum number of potential consumers because nobody wants to be blamed for a second 9/11; for having the piece of information about the guy who wanted to learn how to take off in an aeroplane but not how to land it.
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WikiLeaks disclosures unlikely to change course of Afghanistan war
www.washingtonpost.com-July 27, 2010
In the first 24 hours after the unauthorized release of more than 91,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan, a few things became clear to the officials, lawmakers and experts reading them:
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Is WikiLeaks the Pentagon Papers, Part 2? Parallels, and differences, exist.
www.washingtonpost.com-July 27, 2010
A voluminous cache of secret documents is leaked, shedding new light on official statements and drawing into question some of the rationale for America's involvement in a murky, distant and long-running war.
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Document Leak May Hurt Efforts to Build War Support
www.nytimes.com-July 27, 2010
The disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his military strategy as Congress prepares to deliberate financing of the Afghanistan war.
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Afghan War Leak Sets Off Effort To Control Damage
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 27, 2010
White House officials, already on the defensive over Afghan war strategy, scrambled over the weekend to keep an impending leak of a trove of secret military documents from eroding the support of Pakistan, a key ally, for U.S. operations against al Qaeda and related militant groups.
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Debate Over Afghan Files
www.usatoday.com-July 27, 2010
The debate over America's longest war was fueled Monday by history's most massive leak of classified documents.
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Allegations 'Misplaced,' Pakistan Says
www.washingtonpost.com-July 27, 2010
Pakistani officials reacted angrily Monday to the publication of a trove of U.S. military documents that suggested Pakistan's spy agency collaborated with the Taliban, saying the United States is using their country as a scapegoat for its failing war.
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Reports Bolster Suspicion Of Iranian Ties To Extremists
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 27, 2010
Cooperation among Iran, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups is more extensive than previously known to the public, according to details buried in the tens of thousands of military intelligence documents released by an independent group Sunday.
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Reports Depict Pakistani Ex-Spy As Taliban Link
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 27, 2010
To some, Hamid Gul, a former Pakistani spy chief now in the spotlight because of his appearance in leaked U.S. military documents, is a puppet master controlling militant attacks against U.S. and Indian forces in Afghanistan.
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Officials Say Leaks Won't Alter Views
www.washingtonpost.com-July 27, 2010
The Obama administration and its allies in Congress sought Monday to turn the leak of more than 91,000 classified documents about operations in Afghanistan into an affirmation of the president's decision to shift strategy and boost troop levels in the nearly nine-year-long war.
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War Strategy In Cross Hairs After Leaks
www.latimes.com-July 27, 2010
There are few bombshells, but the volume of data and the focus on the conduct of the war are likely to embolden critics at a time when Congress has expressed doubts about Obama's Afghanistan policy.
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Leaked Documents Shed Light on Afghan War
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 26, 2010
Thousands of secret military documents were released Sunday by a web-based organization, a gigantic leak of classified information that appeared to present a bleak view of Afghanistan war and could have a profound impact on the public perception of the conflict.
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White House: Afghan war leaks put lives 'at risk'
www.msnbc.com-July 26, 2010
Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
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Tens of thousands of alleged Afghan war documents go online
www.cnn.com-July 26, 2010
A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.
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U.S. Condemns Release of Documents on Afghan War
www.bloomberg.com-July 26, 2010
Pakistan said the disclosure of about 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan wouldn’t affect its relations with the U.S. or its role in the conflict after the White House condemned the leak.
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John Ubaldi on the Wikileak Controversy
www.kfbk.com-July 26, 2010
Owner of Military Briefing Book John Ubaldi being interviewed by Sacramento News Talk Radio Station KFBK-1530 on the Wikileak controversy.
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Afghan Document Leak: Why America's Allies Are Hedging their Bets
www.time.com-July 26, 2010
So how do you say "Duh!" in Urdu? There's nothing new or remarkable in the suggestion that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has been aiding and abetting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, as highlighted in coverage of the massive leak of U.S. military documents published on Sunday. If anything, it's conventional wisdom among Afghanistan watchers that Pakistan continues to treat the movement it helped bring to power in 1996 as a strategic counterweight against Indian influence on its western flank.
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The Afghan War Leaks: Few Surprises, but Some Hard Truths
www.time.com-July 26, 2010
War leaks of classified documents but few surprises.
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Exclusive: After Revealing Afghan War Secrets, Wikileaks Prepares Document Dumps on Iraq and Diplomacy
www.newsweek.com-July 26, 2010
While the world has begun picking through the 90,000 classified reports on U.S. military activity in Afghanistan obtained and released by freedom of information website Wikileaks, Declassified has learned that tens of thousands of additional U.S. government documents—including military reports relating to the Iraq War and State Department diplomatic cables—may surface in forthcoming document dumps.
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Review of WikiLeaks docs sees no smoking gun
www.msnbc.com-July 26, 2010
An ongoing Pentagon review of the massive flood of secret documents made public by the WikiLeaks website has so far found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field, a Pentagon official told NBC News on Monday.
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White House: Wikileaks' Documents "Harmful" To Military
www.relaclearpolitics.com-July 26, 2010
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs calls the document dump by Wikileaks a "concerning" development. Gibbs says it places American troops in greater jeopardy.
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Pentagon Eyes Accused Analyst Over WikiLeaks Data
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 26, 2010
Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands of military documents published Sunday by WikiLeaks.
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Leaked Files Lay Bare War In Afghanistan
www.washingtonpost.com-July 26, 2010
Tens of thousands of classified documents related to the Afghan war released without authorization by the group Wikileaks.org reveal in often excruciating detail the struggles U.S. troops have faced in battling an increasingly potent Taliban force and in working with Pakistani allies who also appear to be helping the Afghan insurgency.
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Inside The Fog Of War: Reports From The Ground In Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-July 26, 2010
A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.
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Pakistan Aids Insurgency In Afghanistan, Reports Assert
www.nytimes.com-July 26, 2010
Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made public Sunday.
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White House Decries WikiLeaks' Release Of Afghan War Documents
www.latimes.com-July 26, 2010
The White House late Sunday condemned the leaking of what appear to be about 90,000 U.S. military records, as a handful of international media organizations that received access to the documents began to disclose their account of the war in Afghanistan.
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Strategic Plans Spawned Bitter End For A Lonely Outpost
www.nytimes.com-July 26, 2010
Nothing in the documents made public on Sunday offers as vivid a miniature of the Afghan war so far — from hope to heartbreak — as the field reports from one lonely base: Combat Outpost Keating.
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Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook
www.guardian.co.uk-July 26, 2010
The US military covered up a reported surface-to-air missile strike by the Taliban that shot down a Chinook helicopter over Helmand in 2007 and killed seven soldiers, including a British military photographer, the war logs show.
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US Elite Unit Could Create Political Fallout For Berlin
www.spiegel.com-July 26, 2010
The war logs provide new information about the targeted killings done by the secretative US Task Force 373. The fact that the force has a unit stationed on a German base could prove embarrassing for Berlin.
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Piecing Together The Reports, And Deciding What To Publish
www.nytimes.com-July 26, 2010
The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet. The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in London, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the material several weeks ago. These reports are used by desk officers in the Pentagon and troops in the field when they make operational plans and prepare briefings on the situation in the war zone. Most of the reports are routine, even mundane, but many add insights, texture and context to a war that has been waged for nearly nine years.
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In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency'
www.nytimes.com-July 26, 2010
WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal “unethical behavior” by governments and corporations.
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Did Bradley Manning Act Alone?
www.thedaileybeast.com-July 25, 2010
The massive dump of U.S. military secrets about the Afghan war is believed to have come from the detained Army intel analyst. Philip Shenon reports he may not have been the lone leaker. Plus, the seven most shocking secrets from the WikiLeaks files.
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Military Action Against Iran More Likely, Ex-CIA Head Says
www.washingtonpost.com-July 25, 2010
A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.
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A Losing Battle With Taliban's Homemade Terror Weapon
www.guardian.co.uk-July 25, 2010
It begins with a relative trickle in the east of Afghanistan in 2004. Five years later it is the Taliban's favoured weapon across the country and the biggest killer of coalition soldiers by a large margin.
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A 'Top Secret' Threat To Lives And Security?
www.washingtonpost.com-July 25, 2010
It's normal for readers to react after The Post runs a big story. But many weighed in before last week's publication of "Top Secret America," the three-part series detailing the enormous national security buildup since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. After word spread through government agencies that publication was imminent, readers implored The Post not to reveal the names of companies doing classified work on contract.
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Top Secret America
www.washingtonpost.com-July 24, 2010
"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Iran Now Says Nuclear Scientist Was Double Agent
www.nytimes.com-July 22, 2010
Iran fired a new salvo on Wednesday in what is becoming a bizarre propaganda war over the supposed defection and later return of an Iranian nuclear scientist, with Iran’s semiofficial media suggesting that he was a covert operative who had provided “valuable information” about the Central Intelligence Agency’s inner workings.
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Smart Intelligence
www.latimes.com-July 22, 2010
The director of national intelligence should be given more authority to coordinate overlapping agencies, while their budget should be trimmed.
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The Overgrowth Of Intelligence
www.washingtonpost.com-July 22, 2010
SINCE SEPT. 11, 2001, the United States has increased its spending on intelligence by 250 percent and created or revamped 263 organizations. Yet the problems that gusher of money and bureaucracy were meant to solve -- such as the failure of existing intelligence organizations to share information or "connect the dots" about terrorism threats -- have not been alleviated.
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Misdirection Of National Intelligence
www.nytimes.com-July 22, 2010
After four bosses in five years, the intelligence community needs sustained and credible leadership. James Clapper Jr., who was nominated by President Obama to succeed the ousted Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence, certainly seems up to the job.
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The secrets next door
www.washingtonpost.com-July 21, 2010
The brick warehouse is not just a warehouse. Drive through the gate and around back, and there, hidden away, is someone's personal security detail: a fleet of black SUVs that have been armored up to withstand explosions and gunfire.
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Clapper Says He Won't Be 'Hood Ornament'
www.washingtonpost.com-July 21, 2010
President Obama's nominee to lead the nation's intelligence community vowed Tuesday to "push the envelope" in asserting his authority and pledged that he would not be a "hood ornament" for a system marked by the recent massive expansion of top-secret agencies and contracts.
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How about a leaner and meaner intelligence system?
www.washingtonpost.com-July 21, 2010
The Post series on "Top Secret America" has done a superb job of charting an intelligence community so big and unwieldy, and so layered with redundant operations, that, as the newspaper said in its opening headline, it is "a hidden world, growing beyond control."
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Dumbing Down Intel
www.nypost.com-July 21, 2010
The fundamental problem with our national intelligence system is that it assumes that quantity can substitute for quality. The result is a vast, expensive network that's far less than the sum of its parts.
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National Security Inc.
www.washingtonpost.com-July 20, 2010
What started as a temporary fix in response to the terrorist attacks has turned into a dependency that calls into question whether the federal workforce includes too many people obligated to shareholders rather than the public interest -- and whether the government is still in control of its most sensitive activities. In interviews last week, both Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and CIA Director Leon Panetta said they agreed with such concerns.
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Paper: Intelligence agencies concerned about contractors
www.usatoday.com-July 20, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and CIA Director Leon Panetta are concerned about the role private contractors play in intelligence operations, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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Intelligence Chief Defends U.S. Agencies
www.latimes.com-July 20, 2010
After a Washington Post series citing inefficiencies in the counter-terrorism bureaucracy, acting National Intelligence Director David Gompert says the agencies achieve 'untold successes every day.
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Clapper grilled on plans for intelligence community
www.washingtonpost.com-July 20, 2010
President Obama's nominee to oversee the nation's intelligence community vowed Tuesday to "push the envelope" in broadening his authority and pledged that he would not be a "hood ornament" for a system marked by a recent unbridled expansion of top-secret agencies and contracts.
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A hidden world, growing beyond control
www.washingtonpost.com-July 19, 2010
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
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Avoiding Another Intelligence Failure on Iran
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 19, 2010
U.S. intelligence has already had two horrendously costly lapses this decade: the failure to interdict the plot of Sept. 11, 2001, and the erroneous assessment that Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. Both brought us into wars. A third failure may now be unfolding, with consequences that might dwarf the preceding two. To avoid this, we need an inquest.
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Report: 3,100 firms, agencies involved in war on terror
www.msnbc.com-July 19, 2010
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no-one really knows what it costs and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported Monday.
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Blotted U.S. Intelligence
www.msnbc.com-July 19, 2010
Video of blotted U.S. intelligence.
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Twelfth Suspect In Russian Spy-Ring Case Is Deported
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 14, 2010
A 12th suspect in the Russian spy-ring case that erupted last month was deported by the U.S. on Tuesday, sent home on a free flight without being charged with a crime.
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Spy Swap Puts Halt To Fact Finding
www.washingtontimes.com-July 14, 2010
The Obama administration's rapid release of 10 Russian intelligence officers removed the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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What the Russian Spy Case Reveals
www.cfr.org-July 12, 2010
The arrest and speedy deportation of ten suspected Russian spies in U.S. suburbs has raised concerns about relations between Moscow and Washington, and prompted speculation about methods associated with twenty-first century spycraft. Five former members of the U.S. intelligence community offer insight into lessons learned from one of the largest cases of espionage to surface on U.S. soil.
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U.S. seized opportunity in arrests of Russian spies
www.washingtonpost.com-July 10, 2010
President Obama's national security team spent weeks before the arrest of 10 Russian spies preparing for their take down and assembling a list of prisoners Moscow might be willing to trade for the agents, senior administration officials said Friday.
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White House Envisioned Spy Case Swap Even Before Arrests
www.nytimes.com-July 10, 2010
On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, President Obama sat down with advisers in the Oval Office and learned that the F.B.I. planned to round up the largest ring of Russian sleeper agents since the cold war. After discussion about what the agents had done, the conversation turned to the fallout: what to do after the arrests?
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Deported Russian agents arrive in Vienna
www.washingtonpost.com-July 09, 2010
Two airplanes -- one carrying 10 Russian agents deported from the U.S., the other transporting four Russians jailed for improper contacts with the West -- landed at Vienna's international airport early Friday as part of a rapidly arranged spy swap that stirred memories of Cold War intrigues, news services reported.
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Four spies Russia freed have little in common with swap counterparts
www.washingtonpost.com-July 09, 2010
In the world of spy vs. spy, the four Russians released by Moscow on Thursday appeared to have little in common with the 10 "sleeper" agents the Obama administration freed in return.
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In Vienna, U.S. and Russia Exchange Prisoners
www.nytimes.com-July 09, 2010
In a seeming flashback to the cold war, Russian and American officials traded prisoners in the bright sunlight on the tarmac of a Vienna airport on Friday, bringing to a quick end an episode that threatened to disrupt relations between the two countries.
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Loophole May Have Aided Theft Of Classified Data
www.nytimes.com-July 09, 2010
The soldier accused of downloading a huge trove of secret data from military computers in Iraq appears to have exploited a loophole in Defense Department security to copy thousands of files onto compact discs over a six-month period. In at least one instance, according to those familiar with the inquiry, the soldier smuggled highly classified data out of his intelligence unit on a disc disguised as a music CD by Lady Gaga.
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U.S. weighed spy swap well before 'sleeper' agents were arrested
www.washingtonpost.com-July 09, 2010
Ten members of a Russian espionage ring landed in Moscow on Friday in exchange for four Russians whose release was requested by the United States, culminating a Cold War-style spy swap that the White House began considering even before the 10 "sleeper" agents were arrested by the FBI late last month.
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U.S., Russia Negotiating Swap Of Spy Suspects
www.washingtonpost.com-July 08, 2010
The United States and Russia are negotiating a swap in which 10 Russian spy suspects would be freed after a plea deal in exchange for Moscow's release of a defense researcher held for the past decade on espionage charges, a U.S. official said.
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Russian Inmate Torn By Possible Deal, Backers Say
www.nytimes.com-July 08, 2010
Until this week, Igor V. Sutyagin was being held in a prison camp not far from the Arctic Circle, near the site of what were some of Stalin’s most infamous gulags. His supporters say the location was apt, describing him as a political prisoner in Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia.
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Russia-US Spy Swap Apparently Moving
www.time.com-July 08, 2010
The largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion Thursday, with a Russian convicted of spying for the United States reportedly plucked from a Moscow prison and flown to Vienna. Defense lawyers in the U.S. say they hoped for an immediate resolution for their 10 clients charged with spying for Russia.
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Russia to release four prisoners in spy exchange with U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com-July 08, 2010
Ten Russian spy suspects pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in New York and were promptly ordered deported to Russia as part of a deal under which U.S. officials said Moscow would release four prisoners accused of spying for the West.
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Spy swap is 'all but unprecedented'
www.washingtonpost.com-July 08, 2010
John L. Martin supervised 76 espionage cases during his 26 years at the Justice Department, but he’s never seen one end like this one.
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Charges For Soldier Accused Of Leak
www.nytimes.com-July 07, 2010
An American soldier in Iraq who was arrested on charges of leaking a video of a deadly American helicopter attack here in 2007 has also been charged with downloading more than 150,000 highly classified diplomatic cables that could, if made public, reveal the inner workings of American embassies around the world, the military here announced Tuesday.
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Army Intelligence Analyst Is Charged In Wikileaks Case
www.washingtonpost.com-July 07, 2010
The military said Tuesday that it has charged an Army intelligence analyst in connection with the leak of a controversial video and the downloading and transfer of classified State Department cables, in a case that is likely to further deter would-be whistleblowers.
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U.S. soldier linked to Wikileaks video of Iraq attack is charged
www.washingtonpost.com-July 06, 2010
An Army intelligence analyst has been charged in connection with the leak of a controversial video of a U.S. helicopter strike and the transfer of more than 50 classified State Department cables, the military said Tuesday.
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Easy to leak secret documents? Apparently so
www.msnbc.com-July 02, 2010
How is it possible that secret U.S. military documents could be downloaded and leaked to an organization called WikiLeaks? Apparently, easier than one might think.
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New Estimate Of Strength Of Al Qaeda Is Offered
www.nytimes.com-July 01, 2010
Michael E. Leiter, one of the country’s top counterterrorism officials, said Wednesday that American intelligence officials now estimated that there were somewhat “more than 300” Qaeda leaders and fighters hiding in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a rare public assessment of the strength of the terrorist group that is the central target of President Obama’s war strategy.
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Muslim Cleric Tied To Bomb Attempt
www.washingtonpost.com-July 01, 2010
A radical Muslim cleric who was born in the United States and resides in Yemen "had a direct operational role" in the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
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Man In New York Subway Plot Tied To Senior Qaeda Figure
www.washingtonpost.com-July 01, 2010
The central figure in a failed suicide plot to bomb three New York City subways lines last year had contact with an elusive and feared senior Qaeda operative who spent his youth in Brooklyn and has eluded American authorities for at least seven years, a counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.
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Panetta Says Afghan Progress Slower Than Expected
www.latimes.com-June 28, 2010
Days after President Obama installed a new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta acknowledged Sunday that progress in the war has been "harder" and "slower than I think anyone anticipated."
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Panetta: Afghan Reconciliation 'Difficult'
www.washingtonpost.com-June 28, 2010
CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that U.S. officials have not seen "any firm intelligence" that insurgent groups in Afghanistan are interested in reconciliation, and he dismissed reports that a top militant leader is open to a Pakistan-brokered agreement.
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Pakistan's Plan On Afghan Peace Leaves U.S. Wary
www.nytimes.com-June 28, 2010
President Obama and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency both reacted with skepticism on Sunday about the prospects for an Afghanistan peace deal pushed by Pakistan between the Afghan government and some Taliban militants.
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Panetta Warns Of Iran Threat
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 28, 2010
Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta said Iran has enough fissile material for two atomic bombs, and that it could develop nuclear weapons in two years if it wanted, in the Obama administration's starkest assessment to date of Tehran's nuclear work.
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Intelligence Assessments Paint Bleak Portrait In Afghanistan
www.washingtonexaminer.com-June 22, 2010
After nearly nine years in Afghanistan, U.S. and NATO leaders still do not adequately understand or communicate with the Afghan people, according to classified coalition assessments. That cultural disconnect, along with the West's continued support for a corrupt central government in Kabul, has made it easy for the Taliban to recruit insurgents and prevent NATO from making significant gains, according to classified coalition assessments.
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U.S., Ankara Deny Rift After Kurdish Attacks
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 22, 2010
The U.S. and Turkey on Monday sought to squash speculation that the deaths of a dozen Turkish soldiers at the hands of Kurdish rebels over the weekend were caused by Washington's withdrawal of intelligence support.
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Obama Administration Must Disclose Information about Illegal Use ofDrones
www.aclu.org-June 21, 2010
The Obama administration has approved a program that authorizes the CIA and the military to hunt and kill individuals who have suspected links to terrorism anywhere in the world, even in countries that are far away from any war zone or battlefield. Key details about the program -- including who can be targeted and how much evidence is required to put a name on the "kill list" -- remain secret. The policy violates international law and, at least when it comes to U.S. citizens, also violates the Constitution.
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U.S. Intelligence Puts New Focus on Afghan Graft
www.nytimes.com-June 13, 2010
The military’s intelligence network in Afghanistan, designed for identifying and tracking terrorists and insurgents, is increasingly focused on uncovering corruption that is rampant across Afghanistan’s government, security forces and contractors, according to senior American officials.
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The State Department's Worst Nightmare
www.thedailybeast.com-June 09, 2010
An Army intel analyst charged with leaking classified materials also downloaded sensitive diplomatic cables. Are America’s foreign policy secrets about to go online? Philip Shenon reports.
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Obama's Intelligence Retooling
www.washingtonpost.com-June 09, 2010
President Obama fired Adm. Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence last month because of frustration with the lack of coordination among spy agencies and a fear that the former Navy four-star was too prone to give personal opinions rather than hard information.
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Another Military Man For A Civilian Post
www.washingtonpost.com-June 09, 2010
President Obama's nomination of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper as director of national intelligence continues a tendency of appointing military men to positions that generally should be reserved for civilians. Obama is already relying on retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones -- who served as commandant of the Corps -- as his national security adviser. If Clapper is confirmed, Obama will get his daily intelligence briefing from a retired military man, then turn to another former officer to hear about his national security options.
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Senate Vote On Intelligence Chief Could Be Delayed
www.sanjosemercurynews.com-June 09, 2010
A Senate vote on President Barack Obama's choice for national intelligence director could be delayed into the fall because of questions about whether the nominee, a retired Air Force general, would be too close to the Pentagon.
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Army Intelligence Analyst Held In Wikileaks Incident
www.washingtonpost.com-June 08, 2010
When Army Spec. Bradley Manning reached out to a stranger online -- to tell him about the reams of classified documents he had obtained -- he was looking for an ally.
Instead, his new contact, Adrian Lamo, turned him in.
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Army Leak Suspect Is Turned In, by Ex-Hacker
www.nytimes.com-June 08, 2010
It was only last month that a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, Specialist Bradley Manning, reached out to a former computer hacker who apparently seemed like a kindred soul.
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Military Expands Intelligence Role
www.washingtonpost.com-June 08, 2010
Buried in a 647-page House Armed Services Committee report on the defense authorization bill are six pages that show how the abundance of Pentagon money has allowed the military to move into areas that once were the prerogative of intelligence professionals.
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Who Will Protect The CIA?
www.washingtonpost.com-June 08, 2010
CIA Director Leon Panetta made an unusual visit to the agency's Counterterrorism Center last year to buck up his troops. Morale had been devastated by the release of highly classified details of the CIA's interrogation program and the growing calls for prosecution of those involved.
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The 'Wikileaker' And The White House
www.nypost.com-June 08, 2010
Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty, Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time.
But that's where the good news ends. Spc. Manning was only caught because he bragged about his crime to a former hacker, who turned him in to the Army. Our government still isn't serious about plugging classified leaks in wartime.
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Nominee For Spy Post Opposed More Clout
www.nytimes.com-June 08, 2010
The man President Obama chose last week to be director of national intelligence, Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., argued in April against increasing the authority of the office as envisioned in pending legislation, Congressional aides said Tuesday.
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Gates Backs Nominee For Intelligence Chief
www.washingtonpost.com-June 07, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Sunday supported the nomination of James R. Clapper Jr. as director of national intelligence but said making the job work requires a "constructive, positive chemistry with the other leaders in the intelligence community" rather than acting as "a strong executive big boss."
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Senators question Obama's choice of Clapper as national intelligence director
www.washingtonpost.com-June 05, 2010
President Obama plans to nominate retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. as his next director of national intelligence, officials said Friday. The announcement is expected to come during a Rose Garden event on Saturday
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Obama to Name Retired General to Top Spy Post
www.nytimes.com-June 05, 2010
President Obama has picked Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. as director of national intelligence, tapping a retired officer with decades of experience to improve coordination of the nation’s sprawling spy apparatus amid increasing threats at home and escalating operations abroad.
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Defense Intelligence Pay Plan: Sound Theory, Flawed Practice
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
The pay and personnel system for Defense Department intelligence units demonstrates the difference between theory and practice.
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U.N. Analyst Faults U.S. Drone Use
www.latimes.com-June 03, 2010
U.N. rapporteur Philip Alston calls on the U.S. to put the military in charge of the targeted killings program, which is shrouded in secrecy under the CIA and has prompted accountability questions.
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Drones Take Toll On Al-Qaeda Leaders
www.usatoday.com-June 03, 2010
Amid environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and diplomatic disaster in the Mediterranean comes this piece of welcome news from western Pakistan: Al-Qaeda confirmed that its No. 3 leader, Mustafa al-Yazid (also known as Sheik Saeed al-Masri), was killed in an unmanned drone strike last month.
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U.N. official: U.S. should end CIA drone attacks in Pakistan
www.washingtonpost.com-June 02, 2010
A senior United Nations official said Wednesday that the United States should halt the CIA's drone campaign against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan, charging that the official secrecy surrounding the strikes violates the legal principal of international accountability.
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Newest Manned Spy Plane Scores Points In War Effort
www.usatoday.com-June 02, 2010
The Pentagon is increasingly relying on its latest addition of aircraft in efforts to gain more intelligence on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, records show.
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Raising the Curtain on U.S. Drone Strikes
www.cfr.org-June 02, 2010
The apparent killing of al-Qaeda's No. 3 in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, underscores the Obama administration's stepped-up use of unmanned drones to target militants in Pakistan's tribal areas. But despite the successes, drones remain a controversial tactic in the view of some experts.
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Setting Impossible Standards On Intelligence
www.washingtonpost.com-June 01, 2010
A Senate analysis of the intelligence community's handling of the would-be Christmas bomber bears a closer reading in the wake of the replacement of Dennis C. Blair as director of national intelligence.
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U.N. Official Set To Ask U.S. To End C.I.A. Drone Strikes
www.nytimes.com-May 28, 2010
A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration’s growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan.
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Obama Reevaluating Intelligence Pick
www.washingtonpost.com-May 27, 2010
After forcing out his director of national intelligence last week, President Obama is reevaluating the man who had been described as a leading contender for the job, with senior administration officials saying the process of finding a new intelligence chief could take longer than they had intended.
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Key Congressman Says Pentagon's Clapper Is Wrong Man For Intelligence Czar
www.newsweek.com-May 25, 2010
A key Capitol Hill Republican says retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, the Defense Department's top intelligence official, would be the wrong person to replace outgoing National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair.
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U.S. Implicates North Korean Leader In Attack
www.nytimes.com-May 23, 2010
A new American intelligence analysis of a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship concludes that Kim Jong-il, the ailing leader of North Korea, must have authorized the torpedo assault, according to senior American officials who cautioned that the assessment was based on their sense of the political dynamics there rather than hard evidence.
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Clapper Is Front- Runner For Intelligence Post
www.washingtonpost.com-May 22, 2010
In the summer of 2004, as Congress was debating the creation of a spymaster-in-chief, James R. Clapper Jr., then head of a major military intelligence agency, argued forcefully at a lunch with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the Pentagon's four largest intelligence agencies ought to report to the new office.
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Move To Enhance Spy Chief's Clout
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 22, 2010
President Barack Obama's decision to fire his national intelligence director has accelerated a review of whether the post is invested with enough clout to carry out its mission effectively.
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Dispute Over France A Factor In Intelligence Rift
www.nytimes.com-May 22, 2010
An already strained relationship between the White House and the departing spymaster Dennis C. Blair erupted earlier this year over Mr. Blair’s efforts to cement close intelligence ties to France and broker a pledge between the nations not to spy on each other, American government officials said Friday.
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Facing a Rift, U.S. Spy Chief to Step Down
www.nytimes.com-May 21, 2010
Dennis C. Blair, whose often tumultuous tenure as director of national intelligence was marked by frequent clashes with White House officials and other spy chiefs in America’s still fractured intelligence apparatus, announced Thursday that he was resigning.
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New Chinese Fighter Jet Expected By 2018: U.S. Intelligence
www.reuters.com-May 21, 2010
China is building an advanced combat jet that may rival within eight years Lockheed Martin Corp's (LMT.N) F-22 Raptor, the premier U.S. fighter, a U.S. intelligence official said.
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The Secret Pentagon Spy Ring
www.theatlantic.com-May 20, 2010
Michael Furlong, the long-time Defense Department official who set up and ran network of private intelligence collectors for the military, is being hung out to dry by the very forces that precipitated the network's formation in the first place.
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Visiting U.S. Officials Discuss New York Case
www.washingtonpost.com-May 20, 2010
Top U.S. and Pakistani officials held what they called "productive discussions" Wednesday on joint security concerns, including the May 1 Times Square bombing attempt. National security adviser James L. Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta were the first senior U.S. officials to travel to Islamabad since the incident, in which a Pakistani American has been charged with trying to blow up a car in New York.
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President Obama To Replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair
www.abc.com-May 20, 2010
ABC News has learned that President Obama will replace the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair (ret.) His resignation will come as soon as tomorrow, sources tell ABC News.
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Pentagon To Tape Interrogations
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 18, 2010
The Pentagon last week ordered the videotaping of all detainee interrogations conducted by military and defense personnel if the questioning is aimed at gathering "strategic intelligence" and is conducted on major U.S. military bases.
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U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts
www.nytimes.com-May 16, 2010
Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American officials and businessmen, despite concerns among some in the military about the legality of the operation.
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U.S. Decision To Approve Killing Of Cleric Causes Unease
www.nytimes.com-May 14, 2010
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.
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Pakistani Taliban behind attempted Times Square car bombing, attorney general says
www.washingtonpost.com-May 09, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that there is now conclusive evidence the Pakistani Taliban is to blame for last weekend's attempted car bombing in Times Square.
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Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Sq. Plot, Holder Says
www.nytimes.com-May 09, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder says the Pakistani Taliban was 'intimately involved' in the failed Times Square bombing.
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Possible role of Kashmir-focused groups may hinder Times Square terrorism probe
www.washingtonpost.com-May 07, 2010
Faisal Shahzad's path from suburban Connecticut to bombmaking training in Pakistan's mountains may have wound through a mosque on a ragged corner of this metropolis, Pakistani officials say. The suggestion highlights the nation's complex militant web -- but could also form an obstacle to a terrorism investigation spanning two continents.
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Times Sq. Bomb Suspect Is Linked To Militant Cleric
www.nytimes.com-May 07, 2010
The Pakistani-American man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square has told investigators that he drew inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures have been a catalyst for several recent attacks and plots, an American official said Thursday.
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Few Legal Tools To Track Citizens
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 07, 2010
The attempted Times Square bombing has underscored the challenge of managing security threats from citizens with clean records, but U.S. authorities are limited in the tools they can employ to legally monitor travel and other behavior of Americans who haven't otherwise aroused suspicion.
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Pakistan Assures Cooperation In Times Square Bomb Case
www.latimes.com-May 07, 2010
The country says it will help bring to justice any collaborators, and four suspected members of a banned militant organization have been arrested and are being questioned there.
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Pakistani Taliban Are Said To Expand Alliances
www.nytimes.com-May 07, 2010
The Pakistani Taliban, which American investigators suspect were behind the attempt to bomb Times Square, have in recent years combined forces with Al Qaeda and other groups, threatening to extend their reach and ambitions, Western diplomats, intelligence officials and experts say.
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Evidence Mounts for Taliban Role in Car Bomb Plot
www.nytimes.com-May 06, 2010
American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American soil.
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CIA drones have broader list of targets
www.latimes.com-May 06, 2010
The agency since 2008 has been secretly allowed to kill unnamed suspects in Pakistan.
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U.S. Spies Rethink Tactics
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 06, 2010
The Times Square bombing attempt has re-energized a debate between spies and domestic-security officials within the Obama administration over how to handle ideologically driven violence in the U.S.
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Lessons Of Gulf Wars Aid Security At Home
www.washingtontimes.com-May 06, 2010
Lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan have equipped law enforcement officers to handle the threat of car-bomb attacks like last weekend's failed attempt in New York's Times Square, U.S. officials say.
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Captured Leader Offers Insight Into The Taliban
www.nytimes.com-May 06, 2010
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the most senior Afghan Taliban leader in custody in Pakistan, is providing important information to American officials on the inner workings of the Taliban, pivotal insights as the United States looks ahead to negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan, according to senior American intelligence and military officials.
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Jihadists and Times Square
www.cfr.org-May 06, 2010
Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car bomb attack in Times Square, reportedly received training in the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan, and Pakistani authorities have arrested numerous Pakistani citizens in connection to the plot. The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility, though some within the Pakistani military doubt such claims (AP). But Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism expert at the New American Foundation in Washington, DC, says even more important is what the attack's aftermath says about the Pakistan Taliban: After focusing exclusively on the Pakistani state, the group is demonstrating broader, al-Qaeda-like ambitions.
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Pakistan Taliban Source: Times Square Bombing Attempt Was 'Revenge Against America'
www.newsweek.com-May 06, 2010
A top Afghan Taliban planner and organizer tells NEWSWEEK he wasn't surprised by the attempted car bombing in Times Square. "We were expecting this," says the source, who operates on both sides of the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He says the Pakistani Taliban—formally known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban—was hellbent on revenge after the Predator drone attack that killed its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, last August and the more recent strikes that nearly killed Baitullah's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud, this January.
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AG defends decision to Mirandize NYC suspect
www.msnbc.com-May 06, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder rejected on Thursday the notion that the investigation into the Times Square bombing case was hindered when authorities informed suspect Faisal Shahzad that he could not be forced to incriminate himself and he has a right to a lawyer. Holder told Congress that Shahzad's cooperation is continuing, and he has provided useful information.
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Times Square bomb suspect admits involvement in failed attack
www.latimes.com-May 05, 2010
Officials say Faisal Shahzad admitted to explosives training and driving the car used in the attempted attack. Related arrests are reported in Pakistan.
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Probe's Focus Shifts To Pakistani Taliban
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
Federal investigators focused Tuesday on the possible involvement of the Pakistani Taliban in the failed Times Square bombing as they pieced together clues and charged a suspect who was pulled off an airplane as he headed to his native Pakistan, according to court documents and law enforcement sources.
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Pakistan Retains Its Allure For Terror Trainees
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 05, 2010
The man who allegedly confessed to the Times Square bomb plot said he received terror training in Pakistan's tribal areas, suggesting the region remained a threat despite intensive military assaults.
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In wake of bomb scare, U.S. may lean on Pakistan to hit harder against militants
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
The arrest of a Pakistani American in connection with the failed Times Square bombing again put a spotlight on Pakistan as a global terrorist training hub, raising the prospect of intensified U.S. pressure to break up militant networks.
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From Peshawar to Times Square
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 05, 2010
Monday night's arrest of suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is both disconcerting and reassuring—proof that the world's jihadists are still targeting the U.S. homeland, yet also evidence that our antiterror fighters are getting better.
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Times Square Bomb Arrest Raises U.S. Security Questions
www.time.com-May 05, 2010
The Times Square car bomb failed to detonate, but it could yet cause political reverberations around two questions: Should the government have known about the plot and its alleged perpetrator? And does using the rules of the criminal-justice system against a man accused of plotting a terrorism attack against America leave the country more vulnerable?
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FBI Surveillance of Times Square Suspect ‘Broke Down’
www.newsweek.com-May 04, 2010
Accused Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad spent more than three hours at New York's JFK airport unwatched by authorities while he waited to board a plane out of the country because FBI surveillance of him "broke down," says an administration official familiar with the matter. The FBI is not denying that the surveillance encountered problems.
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Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff
http://apnews.myway.com-May 04, 2010
The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane.
Faisal Shahzad boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates Monday night before federal authorities pulled him back. Although under surveillance since midafternoon, he had managed to elude investigators and head to the airport.
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Five years later, a stronger intelligence community
www.washingtonpost.com-April 30, 2010
Commentators noting the fifth anniversary, this month, of the launch of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have largely paid more attention to shortcomings than to what has been achieved and why the achievements are important. This is unfortunate for many reasons, not least because it is disheartening to the analysts, collectors and others who know that progress is real -- and fragile.
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Arrest Led To Strike On Two Top Iraq Qaeda Leaders
www.nytimes.com-April 23, 2010
The previously undisclosed arrest of a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in Baghdad last month provided Iraqi and American security forces with a trove of intelligence that led to the killing of the group’s two top leaders in an early morning raid this week, senior Iraqi officials said Thursday.
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Taliban No. 2 Interrogations Yield Useful Intel: U.S.
www.reuters.com-April 21, 2010
Interrogations of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader have started producing useful intelligence on the group and its operations against US forces across the Pakistani border, US officials said on Tuesday.
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Former NSA Official Allegedly Leaked Material To Media
www.washingtonpost.com-April 16, 2010
The indictment of a former U.S. intelligence official accused of leaking secrets to the media marks an attempt by the Obama administration to disrupt a type of transaction that has persisted for decades in Washington, routinely triggering criminal referrals but rarely ending up in court.
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C.I.A. Document Details Destruction Of Tapes
www.nytimes.com-April 16, 2010
Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday.
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Spying, Civil Liberties and the Courts
www.nytimes.com-April 15, 2010
Succumbing to the politics of fear during the 2008 campaign, Congress seriously diluted the First and Fourth Amendment rights of Americans by changing the 1978 law that governs electronic surveillance.
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Deputy Director Kappes to leave CIA
www.washingtonpost.com-April 15, 2010
CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes, a veteran spy who has played a major role in overseeing the agency's counterterrorism operations since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will retire in May and be replaced by the service's top analyst, CIA officials said Wednesday.
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Leaders Gather for Nuclear Talks as New Threat Is Seen
www.nytimes.com-April 12, 2010
Three months ago, American intelligence officials examining satellite photographs of Pakistani nuclear facilities saw the first wisps of steam from the cooling towers of a new nuclear reactor. It was one of three plants being constructed to make fuel for a second generation of nuclear arms
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Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
www.nytimes.com-April 01, 2010
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
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CIA: Iran capable of producing nukes
www.washingtontimes.com-March 30, 2010
Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report.
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U.S. Official Defends Contractors’ Mission
www.nytimes.com-March 26, 2010
A Defense Department official who is suspected of using private contractors in Afghanistan to help track and kill militants has denied that he did anything wrong, and he asserted that all his work had been approved by top American military commanders.
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Gates Seeks Review Of Information Programs
www.washingtonpost.com-March 24, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered a review of the military's information operations programs in response to allegations that private contractors ran an unauthorized spy ring in Afghanistan.
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Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA
www.washingtonpost.com-March 21, 2010
The plan was a standard one in the CIA's war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; a Taliban leader was expected to arrive shortly; a CIA missile would kill him.
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CIA Director Says Attacks Have Hobbled Al-Qaeda
www.washingtonpost.com-March 18, 2010
Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
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Outsourcing intelligence
www.washingtonpost.com-March 17, 2010
The headline read like something you might see in the conspiracy-minded Pakistani press: "Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants." But the story appeared in Monday's New York Times, and it highlighted some big problems that have developed in the murky area between military and intelligence activities.
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Pentagon To Probe Intelligence Unit's Ties To Contractors
www.washingtonpost.com-March 16, 2010
The Pentagon said Monday that it was looking into allegations that a Defense Department official had set up an intelligence unit staffed by contractors to hunt insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the guise of social and cultural information-gathering.
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Renewed Veto Threat On Security Proposal
www.washingtonpost.com-March 16, 2010
The White House has renewed its threat to veto the fiscal 2010 intelligence authorization bill over a provision that would force the administration to widen the circle of lawmakers who are informed about covert operations and other sensitive activities.
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'JihadJane' indictment alleges threat from within U.S.
www.latimes.com-March 10, 2010
American Colleen R. LaRose, 46, is accused of using the Internet to recruit and assist Muslim terrorist operations in Europe and Asia.
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Police say suspect in terror plot attempted suicide in 2005
www.cnn.com-March 10, 2010
Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report filed at the time.
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Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act
www.foxnews.com-February 27, 2010
President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.
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U.S. Cleric Thought To Be Al Qaeda Agent
www.washingtontimes.com-February 26, 2010
U.S. spy agencies believe an American-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen played a bigger role than first thought in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's decision to start launching attacks on U.S. targets,
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House Leaders stop vote to ban degrading treatment
www.washingtontimes.com-February 26, 2010
The House Democratic leadership stopped a vote Thursday night on the $50 billion classified intelligence budget after Republicans mounted a campaign against one of its provisions to ban degrading treatment of detainees and some moderate Democrats indicated they would not vote for the bill.
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Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos
www.nytimes.com-February 20, 2010
After five years of often bitter internal debate, the Justice Department concluded in a report released Friday that the lawyers who gave legal justification to the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation tactics for terrorism suspects used flawed legal reasoning but were not guilty of professional misconduct.
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Authors of waterboarding memos won't be disciplined
www.washingtonpost.com-February 20, 2010
Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos that paved the way for waterboarding of terrorism suspects and other harsh interrogation tactics "exercised poor judgment" but will not face discipline for their actions, according to long-awaited Justice Department documents released Friday.
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Military Launches Afghanistan Intelligence-Gathering Mission
www.washingtonpost.com-February 20, 2010
On their first day of class in Afghanistan, the new U.S. intelligence analysts were given a homework assignment.
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CIA Is Said To Seek Custody Of A Seized Taliban Chief
www.latimes.com-February 20, 2010
The Afghan Taliban military commander captured last month in Pakistan has refused to provide information that could be used against his insurgent network, prompting the CIA to push for his transfer to a U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.
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U.S.-Pakistan cooperation has led to capture of Afghan Taliban insurgents
www.washingtonpost.com-February 19, 2010
The capture of senior Afghan Taliban leaders in Pakistan represents the culmination of months of pressure by the Obama administration on Pakistan's powerful security forces to side with the United States as its troops wage war in Afghanistan, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.
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Taliban leader's arrest hinged on U.S. information
www.latimes.com-February 17, 2010
Officials say an intelligence break let U.S. spies pinpoint military chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and help Pakistan organize a daring raid. Islamabad denies its cooperation is something new.
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Taliban Leader's Arrest Follows Months Of U.S. Pressure
http://online.wsj.com-February 17, 2010
Pakistan's capture of the Afghan Taliban's operations chief came after months of U.S. pressure that involved showing officials details of intelligence that linked Pakistan's spy agency to Taliban attacks in Afghanistan.
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Role In Insurgent's Capture Signals Shift For Pakistan
www.washingtonpost.com-February 17, 2010
Pakistan's capture of the Afghan Taliban's operational commander, in a joint operation with the CIA last week, reflects a markedly changed attitude toward an insurgent force that the country had allowed to operate with relative impunity for the past eight years
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Secret Joint Raid Captures Taliban’s Top Commander
www.nytimes.com-February 16, 2010
The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials.
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Capturing the Taliban's No. 2: How Much Pakistani Aid?
www.time.com-February 16, 2010
In Washington, officials are crowing about the capture of the Taliban's top military commander several days ago during a secret raid by CIA and Pakistani intelligence agents in the port city of Karachi.
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Interagency teams can now question terror suspects
www.washingtonpost.com-February 06, 2010
Interagency interrogation teams have started to question key terrorism suspects under a classified charter approved last week, but authorities have been slower to resolve pressing issues that emerged since Christmas -- including how to draw the line between gathering intelligence and building a legal case, according to federal officials and experts following the process.
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Disrupt Al Qaeda's Core
www.brookings.edu-February 04, 2010
The heads of the American intelligence community warned Congress on Tuesday in their annual threat assessments that an al Qaeda attack on the United States homeland is likely in 2010.
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Authorities seek deal with Detroit suspect on cooperation, guilty plea
www.washingtonpost.com-January 29, 2010
Authorities are inching toward an agreement that would secure cooperation from the suspect in the failed Detroit airliner attack, according to two sources familiar with the case, even as fresh details emerged about the intense and chaotic response to the Christmas Day incident.
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The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows
www.washingtonpost.com-January 29, 2010
The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration -- but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control of the U.S. government.
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Pelosi stopped one CIA operation. So why not waterboarding?
www.washingtonpost.com-January 29, 2010
In mid-2004, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi learned something from a CIA briefing that made her blood boil. Pelosi reportedly "came unglued" at the revelation and had "strong words" with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, demanding that the CIA abandon its plans. As a result, a top-secret finding that President George W. Bush signed to authorize the CIA's activities was revised. Pelosi succeeded in stopping the agency from moving forward with the controversial operation.
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Intelligence chief rips handling of accused plane bomber
www.seattletimes.com-January 20, 2010
The nation's intelligence director testified Wednesday that it was a mistake for the government to give the suspected bomber in the Christmas airline plot a reading of his Miranda rights and access to an attorney without first using elite interrogators to question him or consulting with top officials in Washington.
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What Our Spies Can Learn From Toyota
http://online.wsj.com-January 13, 2010
We have 16 separate intelligence agencies. No wonder people aren't connecting the dots.
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Military Is Awash in Data From Drones
www.nytimes.com-January 11, 2010
As the military rushes to place more spy drones over Afghanistan, the remote-controlled planes are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up.
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There's 'Work To Be Done,' 9/11 Commission Chairs Say
www.usatoday.com-January 11, 2010
National Security is too important to become a partisan issue. We believe that in matters of national security, our priority should be to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
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Let's Take Bureaucracy Out Of Intelligence
http://online.wsj.com-January 11, 2010
Although the U.S. intelligence community (IC) has been stung by failures relating to the Christmas terrorist attack, these failures are symptomatic of far larger problems. In analyzing the ongoing Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons programs, both the IC and policy makers are guilty of politicizing intelligence, exactly the behavior harshly criticized during the Bush administration.
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How the CIA can improve its operations in Afghanistan
www.washingtonpsot.com-January 10, 2010
In terms of loss of life, the bombing of the CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, may be the most costly mistake in the agency's history. So it's important to look carefully for clues about how it happened and lessons for the future.
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CIA bomber struck just before search
www.washingtonpost.com-January 10, 2010
The Jordanian had been "heralded as a superstar asset." Until Dec. 30, none of the Americans at the base had laid eyes on him.
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Suicide bomber video connects Pakistani Taliban to CIA attack, but are other groups involved?
www.chicagotribune.com-January 10, 2010
In a video broadcast after his death, the Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees sits cross-legged on the floor next to the new chief of the Pakistani Taliban, confirming the group was behind the brazen attack in eastern Afghanistan.
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Bomber Who Killed C.I.A. Officers Appears in Video
www.nytimes.com-January 09, 2010
The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven Central Intelligence Agency operatives in Afghanistan last month appeared in a video early Saturday, saying the attack was carried out in revenge for the 2009 killing of the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
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Bomber Who Attacked CIA Worker Calls It Revenge
www.latimes.com-January 09, 2010
The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in a video broadcast posthumously today that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
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Yemen Says Bomb Suspect Met With Qaeda Figures
www.nytimes.com-January 08, 2010
A senior official here said Thursday that the young Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an airliner as it was approaching Detroit on Dec. 25 had met with operatives of Al Qaeda and probably with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Internet preacher, in Yemen before setting out on his journey.
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Report: Focus Was On Al-Qaeda Plans Overseas
www.washingtonpost.com-January 08, 2010
By concentrating on the strategic threat posed by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen and its plans for attacking U.S. targets there, U.S. intelligence agencies failed to focus on the group's preparations for a direct strike in this country, a White House review of the Dec. 25 attempted airline bombing has concluded.
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Terrorism Risks and 'Timeless Problems'
www.cfr.org-January 08, 2010
While recent intelligence failures have stirred concern and controversy, they are "timeless problems," says CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Richard K. Betts, an occasional consultant to U.S. intelligence agencies. "There are tradeoffs in dealing with these problems that will never be resolved," he says. "The price of reducing one risk is sometimes to raise another risk or raise the cost to a level that doesn't seem worthwhile." Complicating the American counterterrorism picture, Betts says the suicide bombing by the "double agent" in Khost, which killed several CIA officers, shows how difficult it is to try to infiltrate al-Qaeda at the highest levels.
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Obama Orders Improvements in Security Policies
www.nytimes.com-January 08, 2010
President Obama on Thursday ordered intelligence agencies to take a series of steps to streamline how terrorism threats are pursued and analyzed, saying the government had to respond aggressively to the failures that allowed a Nigerian man to ignite an explosive mixture on a commercial jetliner on Christmas Day.
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Christmas Day Terror Plot Highlights Need to Sharpen Intelligence System
www.heritage.com-January 08, 2010
The post-mortem on the attempted airline terrorist attack on December 25, 2009, demonstrates the importance of continually honing and refining U.S. intelligence capabilities and systems to meet ongoing terrorist threats. President Obama should ensure that American domestic and foreign intelligence agencies as well as U.S. military, diplomats, and domestic law enforcement agencies remain on a war footing in order to prevent future terrorist catastrophes.
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Gates Backs Critique Of Spy Agencies In Afghanistan
www.reuters.com-January 07, 2010
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates threw his support on Thursday behind a harsh critique of the U.S. military's spy agencies in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on them to shift focus from killing insurgents to winning hearts and minds.
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Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work
www.nytimes.com-January 07, 2010
In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis at Colby College in Maine. Her question was a timely one: How do the world’s three major faith traditions apply economic principles?
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After attempted airline bombing, effectiveness of intelligence reforms questioned
www.washingtonpost.com-January 07, 2010
The failure of U.S. authorities to detect a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has reignited long-simmering concerns that intelligence reforms implemented five years ago remain inadequate to prevent terrorist attacks.
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Plane-Bomb Suspect May Have Met With Radical Cleric in Yemen
http://online.wsj.com-January 07, 2010
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, alleged to have tried to bring down a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, met al Qaeda elements in Yemen, and may have also met a radical U.S.-born Islamic preacher, a focus of past U.S. counterterrorist probes, according to a high-ranking Yemeni official.
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U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
www.latimes.com-January 07, 2010
U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials disclosed Wednesday.
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Afghanistan Bombing Exposes Perils Of CIA Counterspying
www.washingtontimes.com-January 07, 2010
The recent bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan revealed a sophisticated al Qaeda operation to plant a double agent inside Jordanian intelligence and highlighted the perennial problem of lax CIA counterspying, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.
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Suicide Attack On CIA Agents 'Was Planned By Bin Laden Inner Circle'
www.timesonline.co.uk-January 07, 2010
US intelligence officials believe that the suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month was planned with the help of Osama bin Laden’s close allies, raising fears that the al-Qaeda leader is enjoying a lethal resurgence.
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What Does the Detroit Bomber Know?
http://online.wsj.com-January 07, 2010
There was much to celebrate in the providential combination of an incompetent terrorist and surpassingly brave passengers and crew who saved 288 people aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day. There is a lot less to applaud in the official reaction.
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The Flight 253 Foul-Up: Was Too Much Intelligence to Blame?
www.time.com-January 07, 2010
In the aftermath of the Christmas airline-bombing attempt, U.S. officials are anxiously trying to figure out what went wrong: Why was there a breakdown in communication among intelligence services that allowed the suspected attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to slip through the cracks? Were clues missed somewhere along the way?
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Summary of the White House Review of the December 25, 2009 Attempted Terrorist Attack
wwwmsnbc.com-January 07, 2010
Summary of the White House Review of the December 25th Terrorist Attack.
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Obama orders changes after anti-terror lapses
www.msnbc.com-January 07, 2010
President Barack Obama suggested Thursday he would not fire anyone for the attempted Christmas airline attack, saying it appears the security lapses that led to the near-disaster were not the fault of a single individual or institution. "Ultimately the buck stops with me," said the commander in chief.
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U.S. Saw A Path To Qaeda Chiefs Before Bombing
www.nytimes.com-January 06, 2010
Before detonating a suicide bomb in Afghanistan last week, a Jordanian militant was considered by American spy agencies to be the most promising informant in years about the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s top leaders, including Ayman al-Zawahri, the terrorist group’s second-ranking operative.
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Attempt to bomb airliner could have been prevented, Obama says
www.washingtonpost.com-January 06, 2010
President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies could have prevented the attempt to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, and used a grim and forceful White House statement to demand rapid improvements in efforts to protect Americans from attack
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Former bin Laden bodyguard is among ex-guerrillas in Yemen
www.washingtonpost.com-January 06, 2010
When he served in the Afghan mountains as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri said, he was known as "The Killer." Today, Bahri is a business consultant in Yemen who favors Western-style pinstriped shirts, crisp slacks and black loafers. But his ideas are still radical: Ask him whether jihadists should kill Americans on U.S. soil and he replies without hesitation, "America is a legitimate target."
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Connecting the Dots on Intelligence Reform
www.cfr.org-January 06, 2010
President Obama has said "systemic failures" contributed to the Christmas Day plot that nearly took down a U.S. airliner, and on January 5 described the failure not as one of intelligence collection, but collation between agencies. He has ordered an investigation into why key data points weren't pieced together beforehand.
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Nigerian man indicted in plot to blow up plane
www.msnbc.com-January 06, 2010
A grand jury indicted a Nigerian man on Wednesday on charges accusing him of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by trying to use a weapon of mass destruction.
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Suicide bomber who attacked CIA post in Afghanistan was trusted informant from Jordan
www.washingtonpost.com-January 05, 2010
The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan last week was a Jordanian informant who lured intelligence officers into a trap by promising new information about al-Qaeda's top leadership, former U.S. government officials said Monday.
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Behind Afghan Bombing, an Agent With Many Loyalties
www.nytimes.com-January 05, 2010
The suicide bomber who killed seven C.I.A. officers and a Jordanian spy last week was a double agent who was taken onto the base in Afghanistan because the Americans hoped he might be able to deliver top members of Al Qaeda’s network, according to Western government officials.
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Recent Attack Shows Risk Of Infiltration In Afghanistan
www.washingtonpost.com-January 05, 2010
Last week in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber got into one of the CIA's most important intelligence-gathering outposts without being thoroughly searched. The deadly incident highlights the risk of infiltration of U.S. facilities and military in Afghanistan as local troops partner with American and coalition forces, and as local contractors are hired to provide security at U.S. forward operating bases.
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Intelligence Overhaul Ordered For Afghanistan
www.latimes.com-January 05, 2010
The new strategy is to move beyond simply hunting extremists and gather information about local concerns, people and leaders in an effort to win over Afghans and marginalize the insurgency.
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C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists
www.nytimes.com-January 05, 2010
The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.
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Watch lists grow; Obama to meet with security team
www.realclearpolitics.com-January 05, 2010
The government has added dozens of people to the ominous lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from U.S.-bound flights, a crackdown that comes as President Barack Obama is poised to announce changes to the nation's watchlists.
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Obama: The System Has Failed In A "Disastrous Way"
www.realclearpolitics.com-January 05, 2010
President Barack Obama speaks after meeting with his national security team.
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Inside Obama’s War on Terrorism
www.nytimes.com-January 04, 2010
Inside Obama’s War on Terrorism
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Mobility Helps Al Qaeda Extend Reach
http://online.wsj.com-January 04, 2010
Al Qaeda's decentralized structure across the Middle East is proving one of its biggest advantages over American firepower.
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Intelligence Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
http://online.wsj.com-January 03, 2010
Intelligence about terror threats rarely comes on such a silver platter: A Nigerian banker went to the U.S. Embassy in Lagos to warn that his son had fallen under "the influence of religious extremists based in Yemen" and was a security risk. This came after months of U.S. intelligence intercepts about al Qaeda plans for an attack using a Nigerian man. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab paid for his ticket with cash and didn't check any luggage.
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A Thousand Points of Hate
www.newsweek.com-January 02, 2010
Battles against terrorists are mostly fought in the shadows and far away. But they don't always remain there. And when the bad guys attack—or try to attack—closer to home, the public is shocked, then angered: What's happening? Why? One day there might be a minor news item: a vague report from Yemen that missile attacks have killed dozens of men loyal to a local affiliate of Al Qaeda. American forces, or at least American weapons, seem to have been involved. Some of the extremist leaders may be dead, or maybe not. It's all truly distant and deliberately obscure. Then a Nigerian kid who's been spending time in Yemen takes a Christmas Day flight to Detroit and tries to blow himself up along with everyone else aboard.
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The Radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
www.newsweek.com-January 02, 2010
A young man checks in at the airport in Nigeria with a ticket to America bought with cash, and only carry-on luggage. More than a month before, his father, a wealthy banker, has visited the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, worried that his son has gone missing and may be hanging around with Yemeni-based extremists. The National Security Agency has picked up intelligence that Al Qaeda in Yemen is planning to use an unnamed Nigerian for a terror attack on the United States. The man has been denied a visa to enter Britain, but he has a valid multiple-entry visa for the United States.
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White House pledges to fix intelligence gaps
www.latimes.com-January 01, 2010
The Obama administration pledged Thursday to close gaps in the intelligence system that enabled a suspected terrorist carrying explosives to board a U.S.-bound plane, and vowed to create a better system for sharing and analyzing the information that floods the intelligence community.
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Information-sharing has to get priority focus
www.washingtonpost.com-January 01, 2010
The partisan finger-pointing that followed last week's attempted airplane bombing is the wrong response to governmental failures to share information. Since Congress enacted the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission five years ago, administrations of both parties have worked to fundamentally change the way federal agencies and offices manage information. These efforts have received bipartisan support but have unfortunately been marked by limited success.
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The CIA's loss -- and ours
www.washingtonpost.com-January 01, 2010
Dec. 30, 2009, marked the greatest loss of life for the Central Intelligence Agency since the 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing. Seven officers on the front lines of the war against terrorism were killed in Afghanistan while doing critical, unheralded work. The CIA employees who died this week were providing vital support to coalition forces and our Afghan allies and protecting our country's national security.
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Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror
www.nytimes.com-December 31, 2009
The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing.
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Nigerian May Have Used Course in Yemen as Cover
www.nytimes.com-December 31, 2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb an airplane last week, already spoke fluent Arabic by the time he arrived here in Yemen for classes last summer, impressing his instructors with his command of the language he had supposedly come to improve.
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In aftermath of Fort Hood, community haunted by clues that went unheeded
www.washingtonpost.com-December 31, 2009
Clues that went unheeded in Fort Hood Shooting.
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Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 8 Americans
www.washingtonpost.com-December 31, 2009
A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war and one of the deadliest in the agency's history, U.S. officials said.
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U.S.-born cleric linked to airline bombing plot
www.latimes.com-December 31, 2009
FBI and intelligence officials say Anwar al Awlaki, a cleric in Yemen with a popular jihadist website and ties to Sept. 11 hijackers, may have had a role in the attempted bombing.
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The CIA Takes a Big Hit in the Afghan War
www.time.com-December 31, 2009
The U.S. intelligence community is reeling from one of the worst days in the CIA's history: the death of seven employees in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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White House Rushes to Fix Security, Intelligence Flaws
hhtp://online.wsj.com-December 31, 2009
The Obama administration is scurrying to implement new procedures to find and keep potential terrorists off U.S.-bound planes, as results of a preliminary intelligence review flow into the White House.
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C.I.A. Takes On Bigger and Riskier Role on Front Lines
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