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...Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title, the subjects are hidden and unfamiliar--a Palestinian woman undergoing hymen reconstruction, nuclear waste, the Abstract Expressionist art gallery at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters. The images alone may seem merely artful, but coupled with Simon's toneless captions, they fast become haunting. "The text anchors the images with cruelly defining weight," she says...
...Friday before the 2004 presidential election, Osama bin Laden released a videotape slamming George W. Bush, which more than a few people took as a tacit endorsement of John Kerry. The CIA saw it differently, though. According to Ron Suskind's fine book, The One Percent Doctrine, Deputy Director John McLaughlin said, "Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President." It seemed obvious to the top CIA analysts that bin Laden wanted to keep Bush - who had let the terrorists off the hook in Afghanistan and launched the war in Iraq, a great recruiting tool...
...statements admissible in court. Unlike those prisoners, however, Qahtani's lawyers say he has not been requestioned. The U.S. has also admitted that other prisoners, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad, have faced questioning techniques like waterboarding that are considered torture, but these have been inflicted by CIA teams in secret overseas prisons. Military courts overseeing Guantanamo have indicated they cannot compel evidence from U.S. intelligence agencies...
Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...Consider the North's motivation in helping Syria build a reactor: "Cash," a CIA official told reporters. The North earns hard currency any illicit way it can. The point of diplomacy is to give Kim sufficient incentives - both economic and diplomatic - to get to a point where his regime doesn't need to proliferate to survive. A return to Bush's "strangulation" strategy only increases the incentive for Kim to behave badly, with very little hope that the Pyongyang government will disappear anytime soon...