Tag: CIA
Trump’s pick for CIA Director ran black site torture program
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, nominated to lead the agency, is responsible for running a secret CIA black site prison in Thailand and overseeing the torture of at least two terror suspects.
Former CIA officer arrested after caught spying for China
Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested this week and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information.
Trump administration suppresses CIA torture report
“No senator, chairman or not, has the authority to erase history.”
GOP proves it’s not the party of ‘security’ as intelligence allies...
All of us will pay the price for Republicans' pusillanimity and shortsightedness.
WikiLeaks exposes CIA hacking tools that can be used to spy...
The CIA has been hiding technological vulnerabilities.
Through the looking glass
How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump?
Danger ahead: Trump, Pompeo, the Kochs and the end of diplomacy
Trump says he will rely on his advisors. He has to as he knows nothing about policy, the world, the working class he always goes on about, or government in general.
New CIA Deputy Director assisted in destroying nearly 100 torture videotapes
Haspel ran a CIA black site in Thailand codenamed “Cat’s Eye” while supervising the harsh interrogations.
Russia and Putin stand accused: Trump strongly objects, acts as their...
The future of Trump’s presidency largely hinges on what happens next.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.