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In strike aviation, especially in the old days, before smart weapons made the task of identifying and destroying hard targets easier, a principal risk to the striker was a phenomenon known as “target fixation.” This typically involved a low altitude attack which took advantage of direct and indirect terrain masking to approach a target, [...]  In the years prior to 9/11, the CIA was credited will all manner of wetwork in foreign streets, but in truth the agency’s bloody reputation far exceeded the cool, analytic reality. In the decade since however, the Company has made a rapid transition from intelligence to operations, according to this WaPo report: (Those) directly [...] An AP report on the man who hunted Osama bin Laden through eight years and three CIA directors: (The) agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn’t like to keep its people in [...] Pakistan is allowing CIA operatives free access to the bin Laden “villa”: U.S. officials said that a CIA team is expected to arrive at the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, within days and that the objective is to scrub the site for items that were not recovered by American commandos during the raid early this [...] There may not be boots on the ground in Libya – yet – but the New York Times is convinced that CIA operatives are in place, and have been for weeks: The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered [...] Eight CIA agents were killed yesterday at a Forward Operating Base in Khowst: A bomber slipped into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday and detonated a suicide vest, killing eight CIA officers in one of the deadliest days in the agency’s history, current and former U.S. officials said. The attack took place [...] Former CIA insider Reuel Marc Gerecht dishes on the impact of moving the agency out of the forefront in the war on terror: American counterterrorism has now enthusiastically shifted from the “gloves coming off” to a post-post-9/11 determination to return American virtue to what it supposedly once was. Unless Langley now piles on cash [...] CIA is refusing to back down in face of Speaker Pelosi’s carefully worded denials that she had been fully briefed on expanded interrogation techniques that some have chosen to label torture – an emotionally loaded but practically ambiguous term that apparently no longer means what it used to: Intelligence officials released documents this evening [...] The abu Ghraib fiasco critically damaged the war effort in Iraq, setting back prospects for peace and security for months if not years, and doubtlessly leading to the loss of many more lives on all sides. The actions of a few boneheaded guardsmen caused so much damage because they were perceived by an already [...] It takes time – or ought to, anyway – to amass the policy gravitas and political chops required to function effectively at the cabinet level. It’s not typically a young man’s job. It helps to have moved up the political ladder in previous administrations. Which might have been a challenge for the Obama transition [...] |
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