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...pressuring of CIA by (along with Rumsfeld) to lie to Congress more than three decades...
...effort to make good on his campaign promise to increase government transparency, President Barack Obama's Administration has launched data.gov, a website intended to enhance public access to vast troves of previously inaccessible government information. Sound exciting? It isn't. Conspiracy junkies hoping to tap into secret CIA files or to find out who really killed JFK are out of luck. The data catalog includes just 47 documents - most of which would only appeal to those desperate for information on migratory bird patterns or unconsolidated stream sediments. (Read "A Brief History of the National Archives...
...situation, the outside world should start by ignoring the standard cliché from the two governments that they are "as close as lips and teeth." Over the years, says Bruce Klingner, a senior analyst at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former deputy chief for Korea in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, the agency's analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. In 2002, Kim Jong...
...nervousness in China that the high-ranking Democrat would publicly raise human-rights concerns at a sensitive time in Beijing - just one week before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. But thus far, the American politician, who is facing questions at home about what she knew of the CIA's waterboarding of terrorism suspects, has given her hosts little to worry about. When she did mention human rights, it was in the broad context of international relations, rather than specific criticism of China's record. "In every country, not just China and the U.S., the global climate crisis...
...They smell blood.' BRUCE RIEDEL, former CIA analyst, on al-Qaeda's exploiting the turmoil in Pakistan to bolster its strength...