The not-so-top-secret CIA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

Report is still not available but the Washington post has more of the scoop. But it appears that no matter how harsh the report is on the CIA, they are gonna just rationalize their behavior with this below slant:

The report’s release also could resurrect a long-standing feud between the CIA and the FBI, where many officials were dismayed by the agency’s use of methods that Obama and others later labeled torture.

CIA veterans have expressed concern that the report reflects FBI biases. One of its principal authors is a former FBI analyst, and the panel relied in part on bureau documents as well as notes from former FBI agent Ali Soufan. Soufan was the first to interrogate Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, the suspected al-Qaeda operative better known as Abu Zubaida, after his capture in Pakistan in 2002 and has condemned the CIA for water­boarding a prisoner he considered cooperative.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_04/senate_intel_committees_findin049861.php

Report leaked. CIA and torture supporters will just continue to claim the report is slanted and biased and wrong.

White House will continue to say it is looking forward and not backwards, and that the CIA and its Director have their full support.

looking forward to Feinstein's waffling.

Picking through their latest documents dump!

Michael Morell, later acting head of the CIA, provides a minute-by-minute account of standing at George W. Bush’s side during the 9/11 attacks. He notes that he and Bush strategist Karl Rove often joked about the president’s daily briefing, for which Morell was then responsible. “You don’t have anything in that briefcase that CNN doesn’t have,” Rove once said to him....

In another article, undated, a CIA man in Havana recounts his time “trying to counter Castro” from 1958 until the 1970s. He had some troubles with an informant…

https://prod01-cdn03.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-18-at-12.09.02-PM2.png

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/18/cia-secret-journal/

@mehdirhasan
US should kill Russians "covertly, so you don’t tell the world about it" says ex-CIA chief. In public. Not covertly!

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/09/ex-cia-chief-who-endorsed-clinton-calls-for-killing-iranians-and-russians-in-syria/

old school proxy warfare, making a comeback!

Come on, give the guy a break. You get used to talking shop candidly with your colleagues, then you retire and forget who your audience is, find yourself garotting random strangers in the supermarket, etc. You know how it is.

maybe it's a double-bluff so when russians start getting publically assassinated the cia can claim it's not their style

He's fabulously unhinged. It's not even particularly strategic - we must smite the perfidious Shia as payback for '04!

gouge away

About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online.
The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.

The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA.

The full archive is made up of almost 800,000 files.

They had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland.

The trove includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38663522

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

Russian jokes, too (really).

the search isn't working for me :/

finally, the truth about obama's youthful journeys to mars can be told