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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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DNI Blair releases strategy document, talks budget

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Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair released the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy this week, and dropped the overall national...
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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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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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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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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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Panetta: CIA to pay legal defense costs

The Central Intelligence Agency will cover the legal costs of employees who come under investigative scrutiny as a...
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