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Reports: Silent State: Washington’s Campaign Against Whistle-Blowers

A/V Booth: Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

Reports: Offshore Everywhere: The Plan to End National Sovereignty as We Know It

Reports: Iran, the U.S. and Israel: Blind Man’s Bluff

Ear to the Ground: Iran Refuses to Return U.S. Spy Drone

Ear to the Ground: Big CIA Bust Reported in Iran

Ear to the Ground: CIA Takes a Big Hit in Lebanon

Ear to the Ground: The CIA Takes to Twitter and Facebook

Ear to the Ground: What’s a Seasoned CIA Agent Doing at the NYPD?

Ear to the Ground: Secret U.S. Panel May Put Americans on ‘Kill List’

Arts and Culture: The Sad, Secret Life of a Spy

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Drone Attack Kills Al-Qaida Leader

A/V Booth: Former FBI Interrogator Tells ‘60 Minutes’ About Emergence of Torture Tactics

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Sworn In as Director of CIA

Ear to the Ground: Documents Show Close CIA Relationship to Gadhafi Regime

A/V Booth: Robert Baer on Libya and Blowback

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Reports: America’s Disappeared

A/V Booth: Israel Is Likely to Attack Iran, CIA Veteran Robert Baer Warns

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Lawyer Blocked From U.S. After Suing CIA on Drone Strikes

Ear to the Ground: The Drawdown That Wasn’t

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Ear to the Ground: Hacktivist Outfit LulzSec Says Bon Voyage

Ear to the Ground: Ex-Spy Says Bush White House Wanted to ‘Get’ Juan Cole

Ear to the Ground: Hack Attack: Senate, CIA Sites Take a Hit

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Busts Alleged Aides in Bin Laden Blitz

Ear to the Ground: MI6: Make Cupcakes, Not Bombs

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Grasps for Credit in the Finding of bin Laden

A/V Booth: Robert Baer’s Take on bin Laden

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Birthers and Bernanke; Petraeus and Panetta

Reports: ‘Oh Yeah, Prove It’

Ear to the Ground: Musical Chairs at CIA and Pentagon

Ear to the Ground: The Bay of Pigs Turns 50

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan to U.S.: Tone It Down With the Whole CIA Thing

Arts and Culture: Cuba From the Other Side

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus to Head CIA?

Ear to the Ground: Secret History of the Libyan Uprising

Ear to the Ground: The CIA Is in Libya

Ear to the Ground: ‘Blood Money’ Springs CIA Contractor From Pakistan Jail

Ear to the Ground: Mubarak Will Not Step Down (Video)

Reports: Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks

Ear to the Ground: CIA Launches W.T.F.

Reports: Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’

Ear to the Ground: Sweden Says No Political Pressure Spurred Assange Arrest

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Outs U.S. Diplomats’ Saucy Secrets

Ear to the Ground: No Punishment Over Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes

Reports: The High Price of Patriotism

Reports: Cuba by the Numbers

Reports: Hillary Clinton Celebrates Kissinger While White House Repeats His Mistakes

Cartoons: Ahmadinejad at U.N.

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Arts and Culture: Pentagon to Make Secrets Book an Instant Best-Seller

Ear to the Ground: Court Dismisses Torture Flights Case

Reports: Sept. 11: A Day Without War

Reports: Why Gen. Petraeus’ Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All

Reports: Illegal Immigration Isn’t the Only Thing Infuriating Arizona Residents

Ear to the Ground: Others, Besides Iranians, Aren’t Crazy About Sanctions

Cartoons: Spy Agencies Out of Control

Reports: Our Secret Leviathan

Reports: Obama’s Intel Nominee Doesn’t Get It

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Delves Into ‘Top Secret America’

Reports: Calling All Future-Eaters

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Russia Set to Swap Spies

Ear to the Ground: CIA Director Is a Downer When He Makes Sense

Reports: Why We Can’t Just ‘Look Forward’

Reports: Newest National Security Strategy Is an Elaboration of the Old

Ear to the Ground: Secret U.S. Plans for Clandestine Mideast Military Activity Brought to Light

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Blair Out as Intelligence Director

Ear to the Ground: Cloak and Dagger Inc.

Reports: One Marine’s ‘Liberty Walk’ for the Rest of Us

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Targets American Imam al-Awlaki

Ear to the Ground: Spies Gone Wild: Afghanistan

Reports: Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: CIA, Pakistan Spying in Tandem

Reports: The GOP’s Double Standard on Terror Trials

Reports: America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Mrs. Robinson Edition

Reports: Al-Qaida Uses U.S., U.S. Plays Along

Ear to the Ground: Obama Slams Intel Agencies for Christmas Day Attack Attempt

Ear to the Ground: CIA Bomber Was a Double Agent, Report Says

Ear to the Ground: Bomber in Attack on CIA Reportedly Courted as Informant

Ear to the Ground: Eight CIA Agents Reportedly Killed in Afghanistan

Reports: Iran, Yemen Posing Challenges to American Intelligence

Reports: We Got Lucky on Christmas

Reports: One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

Ear to the Ground: The Other Wars on Terror

Ear to the Ground: CIA Working With Palestinian Security

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Nobel Speech; Blackwater + CIA; Bank Bonuses

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater’s CIA Connection

Reports: The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Ear to the Ground: Italy Convicts CIA Agents for Rendition

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: A War of Absurdity

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t Buckle Under on Torture Inquiry

Ear to the Ground: Ex-CIA Heads Ask Obama to Drop Interrogation Investigation

Ear to the Ground: Legal Troubles Might Lie in Wait for Ashcroft

Reports: Obama’s Meaningless War

Cartoons: Redacted

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Chimes In on Interrogation

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama Might Replace CIA Chief

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims to Improve America’s Interrogation Record

Ear to the Ground: AG to Appoint Torture Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: Robert Novak Dies at 78

Reports: War Without Purpose

Ear to the Ground: House Committee to Launch CIA Probe

Cartoons: Darth Cheney [A Cartoon From Germany]

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Ear to the Ground: CIA Program Too Good to Be True?

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Wiretaps Now Even More Warrantless

Ear to the Ground: CIA ‘Lied’ to Congress

A/V Booth: Classic Coups, Cloaks and Daggers

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

A/V Booth: No Big Surprise: Torture Yields Bogus Info

Ear to the Ground: CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Ear to the Ground: Nominee Pulls Out Before Being Questioned About Torture

Ear to the Ground: Elderly Couple Arrested as Spies

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

A/V Booth: Was Bob Graham Briefed About Torture?

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Finds Some Backing

Arts and Culture: Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Mike Huckabee

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Marine Unit Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians

Ear to the Ground: The Pelosi Puzzle

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nancy, It’s Leon. We Have to Talk.’

Ear to the Ground: Newt vs. Nancy

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Denied by the CIA

Ear to the Ground: House Speaker Speaks Up

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sticks By Her Waterboarding Denial

Ear to the Ground: What Did Pelosi Know?

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Reports: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam With 9/11

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: When Slapped, Slap Back

Reports: Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head

Ear to the Ground: The 183rd Time’s the Charm

Ear to the Ground: A Decision Not to Prosecute

Ear to the Ground: DoJ Releases Bush-Era Torture Memos

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Truthdig Podcast: Documenting 8 Years of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Sex Scandal Calls CIA’s Self-Policing Into Question

Ear to the Ground: Bush Left Scooter ‘Hanging in the Wind,’ Says Cheney

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: CIA Torture Coverup Was Worse Than We Knew

Arts and Culture: Penn May Take On Plame ‘Game’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks Top Spies

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: Torture Proponents Have No Serious Argument

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: Dangerous ‘Far-Left Loons’ Nixed Torture

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Hegemony on the Outs

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions

Ear to the Ground: Bush Memos OK’d CIA Torture

Ear to the Ground: ‘¡Adios, Ambassador!’ Say Chavez and Morales

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Arts and Culture: James Blight on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Reports: “Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?”

A/V Booth: Ron Suskind on Bush’s ‘Great Lies’

Ear to the Ground: White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges

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