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Why the Post Story Terrifies the Intel Community

(July 19) -- The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for a Washington Post story published today. The story, largely reported by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Priest, details the billions of dollars of intelligence contracts fielded out to private companies. Both the State Department and the Office of Director of National...

Report: Haitian Judge to Release US Missionaries

(Feb. 10) – The 10 American missionaries jailed in Port-au-Prince on charges of trying to kidnap 33 Haitian children may soon be released. Reuters is reporting that while no final decision has been made, the investigating judge in the matter, Bernard Sainvil, is close to deciding to free the Baptist group as soon...

Failure to Connect Dots Recalls 9/11 Shortfalls

WASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- The headlines were sickeningly familiar. "Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror," concluded The New York Times. "U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab," CBS News reported on the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "What the CIA Did and Didn't Know About Alleged Underpants...