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  • September 6, 2010

CIA

Detainees accused of possessing popular Casio F91W watches

May 10, 2010
By Jules Siegel

Due to its claimed use in ter­ror­ism, pos­ses­sion of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Com­bat­ant Sta­tus Review Tri­bunal reports and other gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments as a rea­son for these detainees’ con­tin­ued deten­tion. The watch was pop­u­lar all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert fea­tures. Among those listed: Abdul­lah Kamel...
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Law professor: Assassinating US citizens raises ‘troubling’ issues

February 6, 2010
By Jules Siegel

The admis­sion by Direc­tor of National Intel­li­gence Den­nis Blair that the United States intel­li­gence com­mu­nity is autho­rized to assas­si­nate Amer­i­cans work­ing with ter­ror­ists over­seas has raised seri­ous ques­tions of constitutionality. “It’s trou­bling, Keith, because it’s not on the books,” con­sti­tu­tional law pro­fes­sor Jonathan Tur­ley told MSNBC’s Keith Olber­mann on Thursday. via Law pro­fes­sor: Assas­si­nat­ing...
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CIA man retracts claim that torture worked fast — or at all

January 27, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Jeff Stein (FP) Now comes John Kiri­akou, again, with a wholly dif­fer­ent story. On the next-​​to-​​last page of a new mem­oir, The Reluc­tant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Ter­ror (writ­ten with Michael Ruby), Kiri­akou now rather off hand­edly admits that he basi­cally made it all up. “What I told Brian...
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Antidotes

Petraeus condemns Florida church’s plan to burn Korans

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosen­berg (WSJ) KABUL—The top U.S. com­man­der in Afghanistan said the planned burn­ing of Qurans on Sept. 11 by...
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New study shows immigrants boost wages and productivity

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Andrea Christina Nill (LAPro­gres­sive) Tues­day, the Fed­eral Reserve Bank of San Fran­cisco released a report essen­tially debunk­ing the right wing myth that immi­grants...
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From Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel

Posted by Jules Siegel

(Jalop­nik) Craig Hen­der­son drove from Blaine, Wash­ing­ton to the Mex­i­can bor­der — a dis­tance of 1,478 miles — with­out stop­ping to refuel. He burned...
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The fallacy of ‘Zombie’ Japan — the U. S. should have it so good

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Steven Hill (LA Pro­gres­sive) Dur­ing and before the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, few coun­tries have been vil­i­fied as an eco­nomic bas­ket case so much...
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