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Steve Lee is a veteran of the US Army, the Central Intelligence Agency, and intelligence contractors. Based in the Washington suburbs, Steve blogs and cartoons under the pseudonym Frank Naif at www.nationalsecuritydrone.com.

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CIA's computers stumble over security obsession

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The last time I turned on a CIA computer, which was about ten years ago, it took a half hour or so for it to boot up, prompt me for a bunch of...
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US Consulate in Dubai: key intelligence post

Former AP correspondent Jim Krane notes in his new book, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, that the...
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CIA's economic analysis: not this fad again?

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The Central Intelligence Agency wants National Public Radio listeners to know that it is doing its bit to respond to the global economic crisis. The...
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Yoo's bad lawyering, not investigations, threatens CIA

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Bush administration lawyer John Yoo's latest screed in the Philadelphia Inquirer relies on false arguments and...
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Secrecy claim stops CIA-DEA bugging case, again

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Now an update on earlier posts on the case of a former Drug Enforcement Agency officer who accused a Central...
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CIA Director Panetta to meet Arab-American leaders

The Detroit Free Press reports that CIA Director Leon Panetta and a delegation of senior CIA managers will meet...
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Ex-CIA chief Hayden to declassification post: skeptics

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Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden has been appointed to the Public Interest Declassification Board,...
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Lithuania brushes off secret CIA prison report

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Citing lack of evidence, the security and foreign affairs committees in Lithuania's parliament moved Thursday to reject an official inquiry into...
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Legal help for US employee accused in Italy rendition

Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein reported last week that the Department of Justice reversed course and will now pay for the legal defense of...
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GOP cherrypicks new CIA leak probe

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The Central Intelligence Agency has requested a Department of Justice investigation into improper disclosure of information on its secret program to...
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