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President Obama has declared that Iran has until September to show positive steps toward demonstrating to the U.N. Security Council that its nuclear program is solely for civilian use. On the last Friday of August, the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its latest report on Iran's nuclear-energy program, announcing that Iran has partly cooperated with the agency on allowing access to its nuclear facilities. However, the IAEA also reported that it "does not consider that Iran has adequately addressed the substance of the issues." U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in response to the report...
...interrogation methods under the Bush Administration? To a degree, yes. But there's a stronger case that the CIA was damaged the moment the White House picked it to conduct the interrogation of "high value" al-Qaeda prisoners. What everyone seems to forget is that the CIA is a civilian intelligence organization never designed, trained, or staffed to interrogate prisoners of war. The program could never have gone any way other than badly. (See TIME's photos...
...come as a surprise then that the operatives turned to contractors, ex-military who had the merit of having gone through survival training, where among other things they picked up a familiarity with waterboarding. But the problem was that they were neither steeped in the culture of a civilian intelligence agency nor closely vetted. And since the entire program was handled on the fly, it was easy for a bad apple to get through CIA screening, especially when he came under a corporate contract. It's not a coincidence the only CIA employee convicted in the abuse of a prisoner...
...local allies, to be disbursed, or not, as they wish; a government job is assumed by many, especially the police, to be a license to collect money for themselves. (An exception appears to be in the effective, if fledgling, Afghan army.) "I have yet to meet an Afghan civilian who has anything positive to say about the central government," a senior U.S. official told me. "They don't like the Taliban very much, but the Taliban at least provide a system of justice, plus some goods and services, and they'll go with that...
...under the control of militants, while some security analysts estimate that the Taliban has a permanent presence in at least 70% of the nation. As the election nears, the frequency and ferocity of attacks by insurgents have spiked. The U.N. reports that in the first six months of 2009, civilian casualties from such attacks - as well as from friendly fire - are 24% higher than in the corresponding period last year. July was the worst month ever for the NATO-led coalition forces: 76 soldiers were killed, more than half of them Americans. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines new offensive...