National Security Archive: DIA Declassified: A Sourcebook

20 November 2015 — National Security Archive

DIA Declassified: A Sourcebook

Web Posting Spotlights 50+ Year History of Secretive Defense Intelligence Agency

New Documents Feature Iraqi Defector “CURVEBALL,” Convicted Cuba Spy Ana Belen Montes, Analysis of Iraqi and Chinese WMD programs, and Brief Experiments with “Psychoenergetics”

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Take action to save Freedom of Information today

20 November 2015 — Liberty

Take action to save Freedom of Information today

This evening at 11.45pm, the Commission on Freedom of Information closes its call for evidence.

This is not unusual in itself – the Government often goes through stages of evidence-gathering ahead of policy or law change.

However in this case, the Commission is both unnecessary and dangerously stacked.

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Death-Squad Organizer Is NYT’s Source on Ben Carson’s Lack of Foreign Policy Smarts

20 November 2015 — FAIR

Death-Squad Organizer Is NYT’s Source on Ben Carson’s Lack of Foreign Policy Smarts

 Duane Clarridge (photo: Mike Wintroath/AP)In its effort to vet one of the leading GOP presidential candidates, Dr. Ben Carson, the New York Times didn’t properly vet its primary source in this vetting, former CIA officer Duane Clarridge—an indicted liar and overseer of Contra death squads in Central America.

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New at Black Agenda Report 19 November 2015: BlackLivesMatter Leaders to Get Paid, Paris Blowback, Baltimore Banks Expel Blacks

19 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report

“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead the Black “movement.” The #BlackLivesMatter network and Campaign Zero are eminently qualified for funding, having “already been accorded the status and privileges of constituent Democratic Party organizations.” Who else will make the corporate cut?

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