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US Senate Confirms Gina Haspel As First Woman CIA Director
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female CIA director, despite deep reservations among some lawmakers that her past involvement in the harsh interrogation of terror suspects was a red flag.
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Hafiz Saeed Has 'Blood On His Hands': Former CIA Deputy Director
Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has "blood on his hands", and wants to bring extremism into the mainstream politics of Pakistan, a former top American spymaster said today.
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WikiLeaks Disclosures Help US Adversaries: CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington's fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.
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National Security Picks Stoke Muslim Fears Of An Anti-Islamic White House
News of President-elect Donald Trump's national security picks set off fresh tremors across the Islamic world on Friday as Middle Eastern allies and Muslim American groups prepared to face advisers and potential Cabinet members noted for harshly anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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Pak Was Almost Placed On Formal List Of State Sponsored Terror: Ex-CIA Official
A former CIA official has said that Pakistan was "nearly placed" on the list of state sponsored terrorism during 1993 to 1994.
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Psychologists Behind CIA Interrogation Tactics Deny Torture
The acknowledgement by two former Air Force psychologists that they used waterboarding and other harsh tactics against detainees in the war on terror is a striking development, according to a human rights lawyer.
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ISIS A Formidable Adversary, To Intensify Global Attacks: CIA Chief
Describing the ISIS as a formidable adversary, CIA chief on Thursday made a candid admission that the US efforts to contain the dreaded terror group have not reduced its terrorism capability and global reach.
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Declassified US Document Suggests Pak ISI Link To Attack On CIA Agents
A Pakistani intelligence officer paid $200,000 to an extremist network to facilitate a deadly suicide bomb attack on CIA operatives at a base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to a declassified US government document obtained by an independent research group.
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Paris Attacks A Failure Of Intelligence, ISIS May Attack United States: CIA Director
The Paris terror attacks in November that killed 130 people were an intelligence failure, America's top spymaster has said, warning that the ISIS is planning an attack on the US.
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He Claimed to be Ex-CIA and Was Quoted as an Expert on Fox News. Prosecutors Say it Was a Lie.
Wayne Simmons claimed to be something of an American James Bond, and if you watched TV or ran his name through Google, you'd have no reason to doubt him. In his public speaking engagements and frequent appearances on Fox News, the purported former CIA operative spoke authoritatively about terrorism and clandestine intelligence operations, which he ...
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CIA Created Osama bin Laden Board Game Up For Auction
A snakes and ladders 'terror' board game featuring al-Qaeda top brass, including Osama bin Laden, and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that was created by CIA to deter children from getting influenced by such leaders has been put on sale.
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Amnesty Calls on European Countries to Admit CIA Cooperation
Rights group Amnesty International urged European countries today to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice.
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Former CIA Chief Calls Paris Attack 'High End' of Terrorism
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says the deadly attack on a French satirical newspaper demonstrates "the increased sophistication" of groups bent on terrorism.
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Half of America Believe CIA Interrogation Methods Justified: Poll
About half of Americans believe that the CIA was justified in its harsh interrogation methods of "war on terror" detainees, a poll found Monday, days after a damning US report revealed harrowing details of torture.
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Author of Interrogation Memo Says CIA Maybe Went Too Far
As former Vice President Dick Cheney argued on Sunday that the CIA's aggressive interrogation of terrorism suspects did not amount to torture, the man who provided the legal rationale for the programme said that in some cases it had perhaps gone too far.
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US Senate Confirms Gina Haspel As First Woman CIA Director
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female CIA director, despite deep reservations among some lawmakers that her past involvement in the harsh interrogation of terror suspects was a red flag.
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Hafiz Saeed Has 'Blood On His Hands': Former CIA Deputy Director
Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has "blood on his hands", and wants to bring extremism into the mainstream politics of Pakistan, a former top American spymaster said today.
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WikiLeaks Disclosures Help US Adversaries: CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington's fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.
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National Security Picks Stoke Muslim Fears Of An Anti-Islamic White House
News of President-elect Donald Trump's national security picks set off fresh tremors across the Islamic world on Friday as Middle Eastern allies and Muslim American groups prepared to face advisers and potential Cabinet members noted for harshly anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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Pak Was Almost Placed On Formal List Of State Sponsored Terror: Ex-CIA Official
A former CIA official has said that Pakistan was "nearly placed" on the list of state sponsored terrorism during 1993 to 1994.
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Psychologists Behind CIA Interrogation Tactics Deny Torture
The acknowledgement by two former Air Force psychologists that they used waterboarding and other harsh tactics against detainees in the war on terror is a striking development, according to a human rights lawyer.
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ISIS A Formidable Adversary, To Intensify Global Attacks: CIA Chief
Describing the ISIS as a formidable adversary, CIA chief on Thursday made a candid admission that the US efforts to contain the dreaded terror group have not reduced its terrorism capability and global reach.
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Declassified US Document Suggests Pak ISI Link To Attack On CIA Agents
A Pakistani intelligence officer paid $200,000 to an extremist network to facilitate a deadly suicide bomb attack on CIA operatives at a base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to a declassified US government document obtained by an independent research group.
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Paris Attacks A Failure Of Intelligence, ISIS May Attack United States: CIA Director
The Paris terror attacks in November that killed 130 people were an intelligence failure, America's top spymaster has said, warning that the ISIS is planning an attack on the US.
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He Claimed to be Ex-CIA and Was Quoted as an Expert on Fox News. Prosecutors Say it Was a Lie.
Wayne Simmons claimed to be something of an American James Bond, and if you watched TV or ran his name through Google, you'd have no reason to doubt him. In his public speaking engagements and frequent appearances on Fox News, the purported former CIA operative spoke authoritatively about terrorism and clandestine intelligence operations, which he ...
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CIA Created Osama bin Laden Board Game Up For Auction
A snakes and ladders 'terror' board game featuring al-Qaeda top brass, including Osama bin Laden, and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that was created by CIA to deter children from getting influenced by such leaders has been put on sale.
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Amnesty Calls on European Countries to Admit CIA Cooperation
Rights group Amnesty International urged European countries today to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice.
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Former CIA Chief Calls Paris Attack 'High End' of Terrorism
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says the deadly attack on a French satirical newspaper demonstrates "the increased sophistication" of groups bent on terrorism.
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Half of America Believe CIA Interrogation Methods Justified: Poll
About half of Americans believe that the CIA was justified in its harsh interrogation methods of "war on terror" detainees, a poll found Monday, days after a damning US report revealed harrowing details of torture.
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Author of Interrogation Memo Says CIA Maybe Went Too Far
As former Vice President Dick Cheney argued on Sunday that the CIA's aggressive interrogation of terrorism suspects did not amount to torture, the man who provided the legal rationale for the programme said that in some cases it had perhaps gone too far.
