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Why An Oil Crash Is Exactly What Obama Needs

The historic drop in crude-oil prices is poised to give a clear boost to President Barack Obama both in the US and abroad."Even President Barack Obama likely would agree that 2014 has been a tough year...

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A 3-Star General Explains Why America Lost The Global War On Terror

In this excerpt from Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, retired 3-star Army Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger, who led NATO training mission in Afghanistan from...

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Putin Is Infiltrating European Politics With Shocking Effectiveness

Putin has become shockingly effective at influencing European politics through a host of far-right parties. The following chart from the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence (CESI) shows Russia's...

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The CIA Torture Details Are Appalling

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on Tuesday that details harsh CIA interrogation techniques that were employed during counterterrorism efforts during the administration of President...

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CIA Responds To Horrifying Torture Report

The director of the CIA has issued a statement in response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's release of the CIA Torture Report early Tuesday. In a statement posted on the CIA's website, Director...

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The CIA Paid 2 Men $80 Million To Come Up With Ways To Torture People

The CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” weren’t all old intelligence-community techniques dusted off for the post-9/11 world.Two contract psychologists developed some of them for the CIA in the...

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John McCain: The Brutal CIA Interrogations 'Stained Our National Honor'

Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) spoke about the newly released CIA Torture Report on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, decrying the use of harsh interrogation methods against detainees.In light of...

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George Bush Didn't Know About The CIA's Torture Methods For 4 Years

The CIA failed to give George W. Bush a full briefing of the agency's detention and interrogation program for the first four years of its existence, according to a report released by the Senate...

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This Paragraph Shows How CIA Lawyers Knew The Criminality Of Torture Techniques

CIA officials knew that the brutal interrogation techniques being used on detainees could open the agency up to criminal liability, according to a new "torture report" that was released on Tuesday.In...

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In 2003 The CIA's Chief Of Interrogations Described 'A Train Wreck Waiting...

The CIA's chief of interrogations in January 2003 threatened to quit out of ethical considerations surrounding the agency's methods. "This is a train [wreck] waiting to happen and I intend to get the...

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The CIA Lied To Everybody About Its Torture Techniques

An appalling Senate report on George W. Bush-era interrogation techniques asserts that the CIA lied repeatedly about the harshness and effectiveness of its methods.Those methods were used as part of a...

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The CIA May Have Waterboarded More People Than Admitted

According to the Senate Intelligence Committee's 500-plus-page executive summary, the CIA employed brutal torture methods ranging from waterboarding to rectal hydration on terrorism suspects.The report...

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US Commander In Afghanistan: I Don't Know If I'm Optimistic About The Country

US and NATO combat missions ceremonially ended in Afghanistan on Dec. 8 after a grueling thirteen years of conflict. However, the end of combat missions does not mean that the Taliban and al Qaeda have...

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The CIA Interrogation Program Was A Foreign Policy Nightmare

The White House, Congress, and the CIA Inspector General's office are just a few of the entities that were kept in the dark about the CIA's detainee and enhanced interrogation program, according to a...

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The US Military Is The Largest Buyer Of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel

According to Jack Daniel's Master Distiller Jeff Arnett, the US military buys the most of the brand's premium Single Barrel whiskey in the world.The price tag for an entire barrel of this whiskey,...

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This Mind-Boggling Profile Of Osama Bin Laden Came Out 21 Years Ago

This article from Dec. 6, 1993, by Robert Fisk of The Independent, titled, "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace," is stunning to consider 20 years later.Osama bin Laden, fresh off...

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Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower Describes Prison Life In Remarkable Detail

John Kiriakou, the former CIA officersentenced to two and a half years in prison for leaking the name of a secret agent in charge of the CIA's Bush-era torture program, has written a letter detailing...

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The Ebola Fighters Are Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year

TIME has announced its Person of the Year for 2014.The magazine awarded the coveted title to people fighting the deadly Ebola virus.From the cover story:2014 is the year an outbreak turned into an...

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Gaza Is Almost Totally Cut Off From The World, And It's Getting Ugly

Gaza is one of the most populous cities between the Jordan River Valley and the Mediterranean sea, but there are no passable roads connecting it with Ashkelon, the tranquil Israeli beach town less than...

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'I Was An Interrogator At Abu Ghraib. I Tortured.'

A former interrogator-turned-creative writing professor opened up in a New York Times op-ed about his experience torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib in 2004. Eric Fair's memories of Abu Ghraib continue...

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