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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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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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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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The discreet charms of CIA morale

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Opponents of accountability for intelligence excesses, such as former officials and media commentators speaking out...
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CIA IG Report, Plus One Week

Nearly a week after the release of the oft-delayed and much anticipated 2004 Central Intelligence Agency inspector...
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Old CIA problems dog new interrogation group

The announcement that a new interagency intelligence unit, the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, will take charge of terrorist...
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Holder names special prosecutor familiar with CIA

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will appoint John Durham, who is currently investigating the Central...
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Embattled Panetta announces IG Report release to CIA

From Spencer Ackerman at the Washington Independent comes word that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon...
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Previewing the CIA inspector general torture report

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While the nation has focused on the health care debate and sideshows over death panels and know-nothing comparisons to Naziism, the release of a...
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Former CIA chief: gains from torture ‘modest’

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Former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Director General Michael Hayden said today that an internal CIA report expected to be...
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