Lithuania blocking the truth about CIA Secret Prisons. Reporting From Outside Party Lines. Gunfire heard at 'CIA office' in Kabul. 26 September 2011Last updated at 10:10 An Afghan employee has killed one US citizen and wounded another before being shot dead at a compound believed to house a CIA station, officials say.
The incident in Kabul took place on Sunday night at the facility, previously known as the Ariana hotel. It comes two weeks after militants attacked the US embassy and government buildings in Kabul, leaving 25 dead. The motives for the shooting are as yet unclear. Afghan CIA employees usually undergo rigorous security screening. The BBC's Paul Wood in Kabul says that it is unclear if the gunman was a Taliban recruit or if the shooting happened as a result of a personal dispute which escalated into serious bloodshed because of the presence of weapons.
According to one source, when the gunman opened fire he was shooting in all directions, our correspondent reports. CIA pulls advertising from local Arab-American newspaper. CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is ‘Classified’ Two years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency announced it was creating a center to analyze the geopolitical ramifications of “phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources.”
But whatever work the Center on Climate Change and National Security has done remains secret. In response to National Security Archive scholar Jeffrey Richelson‘s Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA said all of its work is “classified.” “We completed a thorough search for records responsive to your request and located material that we determined is currently and properly classified and must be denied in its entirety,” (.pdf) Susan Viscuso, the agency’s information and privacy coordinator, wrote Richelson.
Richelson, in a Thursday telephone interview from Los Angeles, said the CIA has not released anything about its climate change research, other than its initial press release announcing the center’s founding. Chief of CIA's 'Global Jihad Unit' Revealed Online. Letter to President Obama: Clarify Alleged CIA Role in Detention and Interrogation in Somalia. September 6, 2011 Dear Mr.
President: We write to express serious concern about allegations made in recent articles published in The Nation magazine and The New York Times that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is involved in detention, interrogation, and transfer operations in Somalia that may violate domestic and international law.[1] We seek clarification from you about the accuracy of these articles as well as reassurance that all detention and interrogation operations are and will be conducted in compliance with the letter and spirit of Executive Order 13491 and other applicable domestic and international law, including the Convention Against Torture.[2] Allegations TheNation article further alleges that detainees held at the Somali prison are subjected to questionable and potentially unlawful treatment.
Potential Violations Need for Disclosure The precise nature of U.S. involvement in detention, interrogation, or transfer operations relating to the Somali prison. Sincerely, Page 2: AP IMPACT: NYPD Ethnic Tracking Included Citizens. CIA seeks to resume ads in Arab-American paper. What Obama Is Up Against. By Russ Baker on Mar 10, 2010 We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command.
Like an orchestra conductor or perhaps a football coach, he can inspire or bludgeon and get what he wants. But that’s not how things work at the top, especially where “national security” is concerned. The Pentagon and CIA are powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. They are full of lifers, who see an elected president largely as an annoyance, and have ways of dealing with those who won’t come to heel.
Compound that with the Bush-Cheney administration’s aggressive seeding of its staunch loyalists throughout the bureaucracy, and you have a pretty tough situation. The internal battles between American presidents and their national security establishments are not much reported. Those who do not kowtow to the spies and generals have had a bumpy ride. Petraeus’s New ‘Killing Machine’ The CIA is now “one hell of a killing machine,” said one CIA insider, as lethal drones hunt down “bad guys” selected for death by a ramped-up force of CIA target analysts.
This shift in emphasis has transformed the spy agency that new director, retired Gen. David Petraeus, inherits, writes Gareth Porter. By Gareth Porter When David Petraeus settles into his new office at the Central Intelligence Agency, he will be taking over an organization whose chief mission has changed in recent years from gathering and analyzing intelligence to waging military campaigns through drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as in Yemen and Somalia. But the transformation of the CIA did not simply follow the expansion of the drone war in Pakistan to its present level. The reason Hayden pushed for a much bigger drone war, it now appears, is that it had already created a whole bureaucracy in the anticipation of such a war. The George W. That’s when Hayden began lobbying President George W.