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How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? The CIA used to use ground agents to make these judgements, but now like everyone else they use Twitter.
Taking down the U.S. Government. For the lulz. As of this posting, the CIA website is only intermittently up, but for how long? The group known as LulzSec is claiming credit. They also attempted to attack the official website of the U.S. Senate.
Tech Buzz Minox, the makers of the 1940s CIA spy camera used by James Bond, have created a 5.3 megapixel digital replica of the Leica M3 that even takes video. Want or need? That is the question. (Source: Photojojo)
Politics Buzz After seizing 2.7 terabytes of data from the compound of Osama Bin Laden, the CIA has discovered the former Al Qaeda leader's plot to assassinate President Barack Obama before the 2012 election. So far, six of the madman's key strategies have been uncovered.
Recently unearthed footage of the World Trade Center in flames on September 11th, 2001, shot from a NYPD helicopter and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The narration from the helicopter crew is riveting and heartbreaking. “Our people are down there.”
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Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history, a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole two decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the lives of their two pilots.
There's a cute kitten, low production value, and a 25 million dollar blunder that involved tampering with a cat's sexuality. Count me in! (Via Flavorwire.)
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Apparently, dosing a French village wasn't enough for them.
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The three detainees who endured the harshest interrogation did yield a trove of information, including details of some schemes to attack U.S. targets.
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Contractors were hired as part of a secret program to assassinate top Al Qaeda operatives, officials said.
Politics Buzz Dick Cheney had a secret C.I.A. club that planned to assassinate suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists abroad. While it never came to fruition (one source told the Times it “sounds great in the movies, but when you try to do it, it’s not that easy”), people are beginning to ponder the legal implications of such a program, which itself was assassinated by C.I.A. director Leon E. Panetta just last month. Others are speculating that this is just the tip of an iceberg…
The CIA ran this ad in Black Enterprise magazine looking to expand their ranks… racially. Talk about your Black-Ops…
We track the battle between left-wing and right-wing sites on important news topics. At 12:33pm on March 02, 2009. we detected breaking news about “Tale of the Terror Tapes”. This page shows the headlines about “Tale of the Terror Tapes” from both sides.
Politics Buzz Breaking News at 08:01AM on January 06, 2009. Story developing. Here are some alerts from top news sources.
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The Washington Post is reporting that the CIA has been giving Viagra to Afghan warlords and chieftains as part of a series of “novel incentives” to cooperate. Apparently, the advantage is that giving the pills is less conspicuous than cash and not as dangerous as guns.
Food Buzz Before she became the French Chef, she was a spy for the proto-CIA. Her mission: To come up with a recipe for shark repellent that would keep the beasties away from underwater explosives. She was also an operative in Southeast Asia, and made a mean soufflé.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
Bunny bathtime is the new hot thing. All the bunnies are doing it…
