Subject: Central Intelligence Agency

• Requiescat in Pace, IVth Amendment

  FOURTH AMENDMENT: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." If you're surprised in any way that once a month our government downloads so-called secure banking records to monitor the financial transfers of Am

  June 23, 2006

• Wanted (sort of)

  Remember President Bush's steely determination to get Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive? Turns out he meant we'll get him, if we happen to bump into him. The New York Times reports this morning that "The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants". The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decisio

  July 4, 2006

• Numbers (Five Years Later)

  From a list compiled by the UK newspaper, The Independent: 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001 0 Hours of intelligence training

  September 11, 2006

• The Tortuous Path

  George Bush has fundamentally reshaped the "conventional wisdom" of American political life in a way that most presidents can only dream of. Ronald Reagan elicited only agreement, at least rhetorically, that "the era of big government is over." George Bush has elicited agreement that "those claiming to have been tortured by the United States have no rights that the United States is bound to respect" in any ordinary legal sense, as by having to show up in court. America will be paying for that re

  September 22, 2006

• Spook-Hunting

  Are you tired of the police always busting up your drug-running operation? Would you like to be provided with top-notch military equipment? Ever feel like the people fighting America's enemies in South America could use a bit more heavy weaponry? Then the CIA is definitely for you. Here at the CIA we're not afraid to get our hands dirty - provided we're wearing scary black gloves so as to leave no prints, of course! When you're not running guns and drugs to various exotic locales, intimidating

  October 18, 2006

• Winged Monkeys!

  October 18, 2001

• Oh, Death!

  January 3, 2002

• Waterbored

  It’s not torture, but Mideast thriller Rendition is as conventional as they come

  October 18, 2007

• Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

  February 7, 2002

• Our Man in San Salvador

  August 29, 2002

• A Star is Bourne (Again)

  Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

  August 2, 2007

• Mission: Implausible

  The CIA has disavowed any knowledge of the alleged plot against Laos by Vang Pao and others. At least one defense attorney doesnt buy it

  July 19, 2007

• Letters

  '[Vang Pao] was tough in a tough country. He deserves to die in peace'

  July 12, 2007

• The General's Last Stand

  Vang Pao devoted his life to fighting communism in Laos—until his onetime ally, the U.S. government, arrested him

  July 5, 2007

• Letters

  'Stupid-ass crackers talk about gangs like they know something'

  June 21, 2007

• Hero or Heroin?

  Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

  June 14, 2007

• Svengalis

  May 10, 2007

• Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

  January 15, 2004

• Trust No One

  De Niros somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

  December 21, 2006

• Now Playing

  January 25, 2007

• Men in Suits

  Weekly story brings past to life for ex-CIA pilot

  October 5, 2006

• Live Free Now

  March 16, 2006

• Global Currency

  December 8, 2005

• Global Currency

  December 8, 2005

• The Spy Who Loved Me

  July 21, 2005

• Dr. Death Revisited

  April 28, 2005

• Ink-Stained Wretchedness

  April 21, 2005

• Dead End

  February 17, 2005

• Kill the Messenger

  December 16, 2004

• Tom Cruise Is Straight and Other Hollywood Conspiracies

  November 4, 2004

• Can Chris Cox rescue the CIA?

  July 22, 2004

• Eddie Allen, RIP-off

  A Newport Beach con man dies. We think

  March 11, 2004

• Secret War Hero

  March 4, 2004

• Our Man In Baghdad

  April 24, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• It's the Economy, Stupid

  August 8, 2002

• Lie Spy

  June 27, 2002

• Ashcroft to Mueller to Anybody Else

  June 13, 2002

• War! Huh?

  May 30, 2002

• Crack Cop

  May 2, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 21, 2002

• Patriot Games

  November 1, 2001

• Crack Cop

  July 19, 2001

• True Lies?

  July 5, 2001

• A Gray Area

  June 3, 1999

• The Crack-UP

  November 12, 1998

• Orange County's Scariest People!

  November 5, 1998

• Take Me Online to the Ballgame

  October 15, 1998

• John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

  Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr

  April 21, 2009

• What the Bellhop Saw

  June 18, 2009