Staff / TruthdigFeb 11, 2006
The former CIA official who coordinated America's intelligence in the Middle East accused the Bush administration of misusing prewar intelligence to hype the Iraq threat. | storyThis is a big deal: it's the same unnerving story we heard firsthand from Richard Clarke when he left the White House. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 10, 2006
America's former top spy for the Middle East accuses the White House of "cherry-picking information" to justify a decision it had already made to go to war. | storyWho wants to bet on how long it will take the CIA to start swift-boating this guy? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigFeb 8, 2006
Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) breaks with the White House and calls for a full congressional inquiry into Bush's spy program. | storyThe dam hasn't just cracked--it's gushing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 6, 2006
Newly released documents from the Ford administration show that it, too, tried to eavesdrop without warrants. | storyAnd in an "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" moment, then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush "complained that some major communications companies were unwilling to install government wiretaps without a judge's approval," according to the article. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 4, 2006
Walter Pincus, one of the best-informed national security reporters in the country, offers a video critique of the Senate appearance of the nation's new spy chief. | video Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 28, 2006
In at least two instances, American forces have seized wives of insurgents as a means of "leverage." | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Jon Wiener / TruthdigJan 11, 2006
Bush rolled out an old canard about Bin Laden and the media rolled over. An inside look at the sticking power of a falsehood. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 10, 2006
For over two decades, the couple allegedly passed on secrets about U.S. officials, FBI agents and anti-Castro groups. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 14, 2005
The more we learn of the Bush administration's pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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