Interview w/ Kristjan Thorsteinson of @FlightPathBook

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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Conspiracy Bait

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Corbett Report: Episode 224 - R2P or: How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Wars of Imperial Aggression

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from corbett report: If the last three years have taught us anything, it is that the so-called anti-war liberal left can be made to become cheerleaders for the same war agenda that they pretended to deride during the Bush Administration. How was this accomplished? A developing doctrine of international law called “Responsibility to Protect.” Join us this week as we expose the liberal “war is peace” agenda and ponder how best to disarm it.


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Corbett Report: Episode222 - Lessons in Resistance: Open Source

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from corbett report: Can we imagine a world without intellectual property? With the various enemies of freedom finding ever more elaborate ways to control the internet, we may have to find an answer to that question sooner than we think. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we go in search of the freedom of the open source universe.


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econocrash updates: the audacity of austerity

audacity of 'austerity,' word of the year*
unhappy birthday for the federal reserve*
ultra-thin circuits in banknotes could give electronic security to paper currency*
as wikileaks prepares for bank exposure, federal regulators cringe*
overstock adds rico allegations to ongoing lawsuit vs goldman & merrill*
flashback: interview w/ overstock's ceo*
dutch consider outlawing call for bank run*
halliburton pays nigeria $250m to drop charges against cheney*
cia secretly agreed to pay $5m to shield mitchell & jessen, architects of waterboarding program*
27yr-old citigroup banker allegedly jumped to her death from trump palace in nyc*

cablegate: wikileaks unveils secret state dept cables

cablegate: secret US diplomatic cables released by wikileaks
from washington post: A vast treasure trove of secret State Department cables obtained by the Web site WikiLeaks has exposed the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy, as well as bluntly candid assessments by American diplomats, according to news organizations granted advance access to the more than 250,000 confidential documents. The documents suggest U.S. diplomats were ordered to engage in low-level spying by obtaining foreign diplomats' personal information, such as frequent-flier and credit card numbers, presumably to better track their movements. The cables also expose the sensitive diplomacy involved in winning sanctions against Iran; U.S. officials' attempts to remove highly enriched uranium from Pakistan; and new information on how North Korea is believed to have aided Tehran's weaponry program, giving it advanced missiles that could allow it to strike Moscow and major Western European cities.

related wikileaks updates:
wikileaks 'cablegate' site hit by powerful cyberattack*
fmr pakistani general: cia, mossad behind wikileaks reports*
assange says hillary clinton 'should resign'*
amazon to stop hosting wikileaks*
interpol puts 'red notice' on assange, calls for his arrest*
police close in on assange*
lieberman introduces anti-wikileaks legislation*
next wikileak to target major US financial institutions*

related geopolitikal updates:
nuclear scientist killed in tehran was iran's top stuxnet expert*
nigeria to charge dick cheney in pipeline bribery case*
video: south admits firing first shells in row with north korea*

bush admin warned 9/11 commission about 'line' it 'should not cross'

from raw story: Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet [1.9mb PDF]. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission's request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

"In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation," the letter read. "There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross - the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks." ...

The letter can be found on page 26 of the ACLU's set of unveiled documents.

9/11 updates:
washington post publishes yukihisa fujita's rebuttal letter*
rahm emanuel helped gop sink 9/11 trial*
summer 2001: faa participates in exercise based around hijacking of boeing 767*
they could have stopped 9/11: coleen rowley on the moussaoui case
audio: coleen rowley on antiwar radio*
holder: osama never to be caught alive*
april gallop's case on 9/11-pentagon thrown out*
the 9/11 cat's out of the bag*
full el al flight took off on 9/11 from jfk to tel aviv?*
war games, blackwater, ksm - updates to the 9/11 timeline as of mar16*

obamessiah updates: the more things change

gadhafi: obama fears israel will assassinate him like it did jfk*
video: james traficant says aipac & 'the lobby' run US foreign policy*
senate votes to extend patriot act*
ron paul for president, says conservative political action conference poll*
obama tops bush at ducking reporters*
cheney unleashed from hospital after another 'heart' attack*

video: rev manning claims obama worked for cia*

9/11 updates: gop, dems, the media & the peace movement

debra medina's 9/11 remark pushes campaign off track*
letter to rachel maddow on debra medina*
media response to the growing influence of 9/11 truth*
peace movement vs 9/11 truth*
gop rep chaffetz agrees with concerns of 9/11 truthers: there's still a lot to learn*
yet another congressman questions 9/11*
1992 flashback: small knives used in hijackings, faa memo warns*

video: govt doesn't want 9/11 public trial*
olbermann blames bush, cheney for 9/11 attacks*
spanish inquiry of alleged bush-era war crimes begins*
taliban pressed bin laden on anti-US terror*
did the taliban try to stop bin laden terror attacks?*
1991 flashback: terrorists plan to crash planes into buildings in madrid*
kerik, disgraced 9/11 'hero' & ex-nypd head, gets 4yrs in prison*

ron paul slams dick cheney

from raw replay: Rep. Ron Paul told CNN’s Larry King that former Vice President Dick Cheney doesn’t have the standing to criticize President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorist threats. “I think he had his eight years, and he’s caused a lot of trouble for our country and perpetuated a war in Iraq unnecessary and wrong-headed,” said Paul. “I would say it would be best he not be so critical right now.” This video is from CNN’s Larry King Live, broadcast Jan. 4, 2010.

obamessiah & the apostles of war: year one, change zero

out w/the old & in w/ the old, the left/right charade goes on -
on obama's election anniversary, repugs claim victory*
gop victories in 1st election test for obama*
voters repudiate dems because dems sold out on financial reform*
obama invites native american leaders to white house*
gay leaders blame tv ads & obama for loss in maine*
planet obama: the 1st year*
obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job*
top obama fundraisers get posts*
govt booklet addresses obamacare as if it's a done deal*
11 uncovered videos show more school kids worshipping obamessiah*
bush tv propaganda program continues under obama*
obama continues bush policy regarding posse comitatus*
change: obama administration says toss wiretap lawsuit*
new movie to seek prosecution of george w bush*
cheney could not recall key events about plamegate*

obamessiah updates: polls, plans, games & the grid

obama already ties bush on golf games played while in office*
white house issues obama family photo, taken by annie leibovitz*
obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50yrs*
1st daughters not vaccinated against h1n1*
obama every bit as bad as bush/cheney on patriot act*
why is dick cheney helping obama?*
video: olbermann & maddow defend meeting with obama*

dems waking up w/ 'obama hangover' in state, local elections*
democrats return fire on black panthers case*
obama's new world order*
'public option' likely to be managed by private insurance company*
obama set to unveil 'too big to fail' plans*
obama to detail stimulus spending on 'smart grid'*

10/29 updates:
coming in december: world government*
obama signs 'hate crimes' bill*
obama signs law extending hate crimes to sexual orientation, gender*
obama signs law giving dod authority to exempt photos from foia*
...meanwhile, speculation mounts over ron paul 2012 bid*

warwhores: sloganeering, psyops, satellites & suicides

sailors take aim at new recruiting slogan: 'a global force for good'*
US army cancels plan to send another brigade to iraq*
US to make blackwater-style entry into somalia*
US after new military ventures in africa*
US largesse keeps african militaries rolling*
photos of military deaths in afghanistan banned*
$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in afghanistan*
video: posner says taliban trying to addict US soldiers to heroin
(when they roll this guy out, you know they're shovelin' it...)*
al-qaeda big wig killed. again.*
america's phoney war in afghanistan*
white house rejects cheney's afghanistan criticism*
pentagon opposed measure to help rape victims*
unfriendly fire: a close look at pat tillman*
US fighter-jets collide off south carolina*
iron eagle: john elway's awesomely bad anti-terror vid*
administration fights to protect secret propaganda budget*
pentagon used psyops on US public, docs show*
olympia antiwar group succeeds despite infiltration*
saic awarded $95m contract to support natl guard bureau*
admiral: i can empty guantánamo camps in 10 days*
nro pledges on-budget spy sats*
ex-gi sentenced for child-sex videos*
US soldier commits suicide in indiana theater during 'zombieland'*

obamessiah: change you can indefinitely detain! + the pimpolympics

obama reaffirms power of indefinite detention*
dems cave to fbi in 'patriot act' debate*
shocker!: gitmo won't be closed by jan as planned*
obama makes victoria espinel new copyright czar or 'intellectual property enforcement coordinator'*
uk globe says obama has an enemies list*
secret service probing facebook poll*
ss probes fbook murder poll*
cnn calls for creator of obama 'death poll' to be arrested & prosecuted*
juvenile behind obama assassination poll won't face charges*
obama may head to copenhagen, after all - to pimp for chicago olympics*
obama chases olympic bauble while US burns*
judge rules fbi can't bury the interview that obama's cousin cheney gave on plamegate*
newsmax: coup to resolve the 'obama problem' is not 'unrealistic'*
obama sworn in as 'world president'*

obamessiah updates: cfr, acorn, rhetoric & racewar

obama calls on young adults to back health-care reform*
washpost ignores own poll finding:
54% say more they learn of obamacare, less they like it*
race creeps into US healthcare debate*
who took the picture of joe wilson? and how?*
in the race from race, democrats rebut jimmy carter saying wilson racist*
taking count of obama's czars, lawmakers rise up*
obama names another globalist with tax problems to administration;
imf's charles collyns to treasury*
house votes to end federal funding for acorn*
house joins senate in cutting acorn funding after massive scandals*
US seeking 3rd delay on guantánamo cases*
capt. connie rhodes asks for judge clay land to reconsider*

orly taitz & the birthers falling down into the rabbit hole*
video: aipac's #1 target gets out of jail;
james traficant's 1st post-jail interview*
cfr says: bush, obama foreign policy only differs in rhetoric*
agriculture secretary bullish on rural america:
or, the council on foreign relations & the geo-engineering agenda*
fmr interior sec gale norton is focus of corruption probe*
obama's cousin cheney undergoing spinal surgery*

a day late & a dollar short: another 'new message' from 'osama'

'osama' reportedly calls obama 'powerless' as cia-linked 'intel center' releases another highly suspicious bin laden tape
from ap: In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays.

Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He typically addresses the United States in a message around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

Bin Laden argued against the claims that the war is necessary for U.S. security, saying current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interests of big companies."

When Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration's military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden said.

"If you end the war, so to it," bin Laden said. "But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes."

flashbacks: suspicious s.i.t.e. to release another 'bin laden' tape &
digital forensics expert on osama video: definite fake

7/23 newspurge: mystery, media, mayhem, obama, police state +

history/mystery:
was twa 800 shot down by a military missile?*
300 nazis still go free in america*
cia's past haunts us*
watergate hotel to be auctioned next week*
watergate sold for $25m to german-owned firm*
ukranian former official admits to murdering journalist in 2000*
audio: virgina tech gunman's health records found*







media/memes:
billboards tell america to cheer up*
mkultra guinea pig wrote lyrics for dylan's latest album*
cia/mafia media shill gerald posner claims jackson 'accidently killed himself'*
investigators want more info from mj doc*
jackson was guilty of pedophilia
- those who defend him have been misled*

review of discovery's postapocalyptic reality show 'the colony'*
some ebooks are more equal than others:
kindle kills orwell's 1984 & animal farm*

murder/mayhem:
uk cleaner has head cut off in giant meat blending machine*
4 seasons hotel in los angeles evacuated after fire alarm sounds*
2 light-rail trains collide in san francisco*
eu criticizes death penalty in the US after 1,000th execution*
former US presidential candidate gene amondson dies following stroke*
land mine left in colorado goodwill donation box*
4 boys accused in rape of 8-year-old girl*
drive-by shooting at texas southern wounds 6*
37yr hunt for killer over?*
journalist deaths rise in media 'bloodbath'*
65yr-old woman arrested over the death of two mexican wrestlers*
update: 4 dead as helicopter crashes onto maryland highway*

obamessiah & the apostles of war:
video: obama says take the blue pill & stay asleep*
obama: “blogs are best at debunking myths that can slip through a lot of the traditional media outlets"*
cindy sheehan says 'obama more polished than the last puppet'*
obama to attend north american union meeting, aug9-10*
obama approval rating falls below 60%*
obama ratings fall as polls show honeymoon may be over*

obama popularity drops amid health care clash, poor economy*
obama goes prime-time to pitch healthcare, again*
obama declines to disclose visits by health industry executives*
obama declines united nations requests for gitmo visits & data on cia prisons*
does the abuse & humiliation continue?:
freed gitmo detainees claim post-obama mistreatment*
US weighs special team of terrorism interrogators*
your taxpayer dollars were used to torture children*
group plans lawsuit to unveil the cia’s pentagon papers*
did cheney's assassination squad operate on US soil?*
video: homeless get paid to stand in line for dc lobbyists*
texas congressman calls obama a 'fascist dictator'*
executive order 13489 & the birth certificate debate*
video: gop lawmaker shoots down 'birther' claim*
video: chris matthews takes on gop's birther bill*
video: liz cheney speaks out in defense of birthers movt*
obama lawyers shield cheney on leak*
cheney's secret service protection extended*
was uk weapons expert dr. kelly a victim of cheney's hitsquad? *
robert hormats, goldman sachs vice chairman & cfr member, picked for state dept post*
rockefeller sidesteps questions on the cfr & bilderberg*
video: jay rockefeller can’t deny his connection to modern eugenics*
sotomayor wouldn't concede a right to self-defense*
video: bilderberger sebelius takes fire on healthcare at townhall*
german man who protested obama deemed insane*
larouche calls for obama’s impeachment*

police state int'l:
cable tv workers trained to spy on citizens*
ny man forcibly sedated for cavity search gets $125k settlement*
norad military exercise over chicago tested response to threats to city's air space*
uk police given powers to enter homes and tear down anti-olympics posters during games*
the school with 100 spy cameras:
'big brother' system watches uk pupils*
uk children traumatised by 'war of worlds' abduction of teacher*
conservative kiosk not allowed at north carolina mall*
maryland transit authority considers installing audio surveillance on trains, buses*
senate rejects concealed weapons measure*
senate narrowly rejects 'radical' concealed weapon measure*
charge dropped against harvard scholar; henry louis gates arrested at home*
dhs launches youtube channel*
emergency drill sent helicopters into denver's sky*
local law enforcement surveillance plane circling over portland*

warwhores:
gates says US army to expand by 22,000 troops*
US to expand army*
5 reasons why half of uk wants troops out of afghanistan*
did US forces watch afghan massacre?*
russia to draft 320,000 conscripts in fall 2009*
senate votes down funds for f22's*
john yoo, author of torture memos, pranked in classroom*
double shooting at ft lewis, washington*


and finally, 1 note of wv worry:
train derailment in mingo county, west virginia;
is this part of larger derailment meme?*

9/11 updates: rowley, ryan & a new investigation

ex-fbi agent: why i support a new 9/11 investigation
from coleen rowley: In the absence of my being there in New York City to stand with the 9/11 families, first responders and survivors, I offer the following statement in support of your goal of a new investigation into the attacks of September 11th and the NYC CAN campaign to place it on the ballot for November. At the time of 9/11, I had been an FBI agent for over 20 years... The official dissembling and excuse-making about the true causes and prior mistakes that gave rise to and allowed the terrorist attacks to happen, almost immediately ushered in the Bush-Cheney Administration’s egregious and lawless, post 9/11 “war on terror” agenda which bore no connection to the original causes and no connection to the goal of reducing terrorism and making the world safer. When I got a chance, about 8½ months after 9/11 to tell what I knew, I did so and my disclosures led to further investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General and figured in the 9/11 Commission Report. But it was way too late for this emerging bit of truth that has continued to leak out in dribs and drabs to have any impact... Therefore, I fully support the 9/11 families, first responders, survivors and over 60,000 other New Yorkers who have endorsed a new 9/11 investigation in New York City as advanced by ballot referendum this coming November election.

gop ties to 3 9/11 hijackers

ex-underwriter's lab manager: demolition access to the wtc towers
from kevin ryan: On occasion, the public has been asked by George W. Bush to refrain from considering certain conspiracy theories. Bush has made such requests when people were looking into crimes in which he might be culpable. For example, when in 1994 Bush’s former company Harken Energy was linked to the fraudulent Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) through several investors, Bush’s spokeswoman, Karen Hughes, shut down the inquiry by telling the Associated Press - “We have no response to silly conspiracy theories.” On another occasion, Bush said in a televised speech - “Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th.” But paradoxically, we have also been asked to believe Bush’s own outrageous conspiracy theory about 9/11, one that has proven to be false in many ways. One important way to see the false nature of Bush’s conspiracy theory is to note the fact that the World Trade Center buildings could only have fallen as they did through the use of explosives. A number of independent scientific studies have pointed out this fact ^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}, but it was Bush’s own scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through their inability to provide a convincing defense of the official line, who ultimately proved that explosives were necessary.^{[2, 5, 6, 7]} This leads us to ask the obvious question - Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center towers?

flashback: gao easily smuggled bomb materials into govt buildings

post-9/11 surveillance went beyond wiretapping
from ap: The Bush administration authorized secret surveillance activities that still have not been made public, according to a new government report that questions the legal basis for the unprecedented anti-terrorism program. It's unclear how much valuable intelligence was yielded by the surveillance program started after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the unclassified summary of reports by five inspectors general. The reports mandated by Congress last year were delivered to lawmakers Friday [jul10].

download the the 'presidents surveillance program' [2.7mb PDF]

video: jeff steinberg on new 9/11 developments - 9/11 cover is blown

fbi claims to review hypothesis for exclusive gps guided autopilot control of 9/11 aircraft

video: 9/11 truth still in a cloud of smoke?


worker injured in fall at world trade center site

judge denies bid by airlines to question fbi in 9/11 case
from wsj: A U.S. judge has denied a motion by a group of airlines to depose several Federal Bureau of Investigation agents regarding the government's probes into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. In an order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan denied a motion by the airlines to question six current and former FBI agents, a potential setback for their defense. The judge indicated the airline defendants hoped to show at trial that the government's failure to apprehend the terrorists and stop the attacks was so considerable that it mitigates and excuses any alleged faults of the airlines and the terrorists likely would have succeeded even if the defendants had exercised due care. "The government's failures to detect and abort the terrorists' plots would not affect the aviation defendants' potential liability," the judge wrote. "Moreover, efforts to prove these propositions would cause confusion and prejudice, and burden court and jury with long delays and unduly lengthy trial proceedings." The rulings relate to three wrongful death cases and 19 property-damage cases. The defendants include units of UAL Corp. (UAUA), US Airways Group Inc. (LCC), Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI). A lawyer for the airlines didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday. The judge did allow some of the testimony of two of the FBI agents from the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence - namely what they learned in their investigations. "Testimony as to what their superiors did or did not do is not relevant, and is not admissible," the judge said. The judge also denied a motion to admit the 9/11 Commission report as a whole as evidence in the case, instead only admitting the chronology provided in the report.

9/11 lawsuit turns into show trial

new arguments in 9/11 case
from nytimes: A federal appeals court in Richmond ordered new arguments in the case of a Sept. 11 conspirator, Zacharias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in an American court for the terrorist attacks. A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard arguments in the case in January, but one of the judges retired last week after receiving a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Moussaoui is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to helping plan the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. He has changed his story and has asked for a new trial.

5 9/11 detainees boycott guantanamo hearing

relative of 9/11 victim frustrated by obama efforts to close gitmo
from foxnews: President Obama's executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January and halt military trials of terrorism suspects there has revived painful memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for some relatives of the victims. Obama has promised relatives of the victims that they would be part of the process of closing the prison. In February, he met with roughly 40 family members of the victims and said he wanted what they do: justice for their loved ones. But some relatives have been frustrated by the administration's effort. "I didn't go in there prepared for how frustrated I'd be afterward," said Melissa Long, referring to a meeting last month with Obama officials. "They listened, only one of them took notes and the rest of them took flak. They took a lot of heat. There was a lot of questions unanswered."

flashback: just 7 days before her death, beverly eckert & other 9/11 victims family members met the obamessiah

obama reluctant as holder considers probe into torture

cia played a leading role in warrantless surveillance
from dpa: US Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to probe allegations of the use of brutal torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), according to a media report published Sunday. Holder is to decide whether he will appoint a prosecutor to look into the nature of the torture of terrorist suspects since the September 11 terrorists attacks on the US, the Washington Post reported. Pushing ahead with a criminal investigation would bring Holder into conflict with President Barack Obama. Obama has appeared reluctant to probe the alleged use of torture and brutal interrogation methods by the government of his predecessor, George W Bush.

the cia's rogue operation



cia's history of lying to congress
from lisa pease: On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question? The Agency has a long history of manipulating Congress and others to support its programs. That this was posed as an actual question reveals the media’s historical illiteracy in this matter.

video: eshoo won’t deny cia program was cheney assassination ring

updates from 7/15:
origins of the cia’s assassination program:
who proposed it, what its code name was*
yes, the US did carry out foreign assassinations*
jeremy scahill on the dems' selective amnesia on assassination:
clinton did it & obama does it, too*
new reports of massive spying, criminality by US government*
cia didn't tell congress about program to kill al-qaeda leaders*
cia assassination program revealed: nothing new under the sun*
'unit was so secret that even the former cia director george tenet did not control its activities'*
cia contemplated human hit squads, turned to killer drones*
the secret program can't be foreign assassinations, because congress was briefed on that in '01 & nytimes wrote about it in '02*
cia assassin program was nearing new phase*
video: ex-cia agent suggests cia & military assassins cooperated*