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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Crime, Law and Justice, Yemen, John O. Brennan, Politics
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TV review: Fly the flag for FX's 'The Americans'
RedEyeIf you've been around long enough to remember the 1980s, you know it wasn't just about Madonna, parachute pants and big hair. In 1981, just after Ronald Reagan became president and called the Soviet Union the "evil empire," tensions between the two...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Kidnapping, Police Investigations, Caviar, Politics
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Two women who brought down a traitor
Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes could be George Smiley's people. They were recruited on their college campuses by the Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. Jeanne wanted travel and adventure. Sandy didn't know much about...
Tags: Police Investigations, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency
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Jessica Chastain gets her character in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
As the overstressed beating heart of "Zero Dark Thirty," a CIA analyst named Maya who relentlessly chases after the hated phantom that was Osama bin Laden, Jessica Chastain is at times steely, at times shattered, potty-mouthed but somehow girlish,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Jennifer Ehle, Politics
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'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 9 recap
Who is Dar Adal? Just as Abu Nazir has begun shift from specter to physical character, "Homeland" has brought in a new, mysterious overlord to lurk in the shadows. This time it's in the form of a powerful intelligence official revealed to be secretly...
Tags: Police Investigations, Homeland (tv program), Politics, Central Intelligence Agency
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: National Security, Wars and Interventions, Politics, John Cornyn, Hamid Karzai
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Obama chooses Hagel for defense secretary, Brennan to head CIA
Associated PressDespite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him “the leader our troops deserve.” He also chose White House counterterrorism...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Republican Party, Democratic Party, John Brennan
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Politics, Republican Party
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Homeland Season 2, Episode 11 recap
With one episode remaining in the second season of “Homeland,” several plotlines reached their conclusions, while others blew wide open. Episode 11 killed off two of the series’ most obviously troublesome characters: Abu Nazir and the...
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Police Investigations, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, Morena Baccarin
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Afghan intelligence chief wounded in attack
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency was wounded Thursday afternoon in an attack at a spy agency guest house in the capital, government officials said. Asadullah Khalid, director of the National Directorate of...Tags: Suicide, Bombings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Hamid Karzai
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Better spies, not more
The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert "collectors" — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Defense Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Iraq
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'Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars' recap: Who's 'Bad'?
Welcome to the “Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars” semi-finals, ballroom fans! This was the last chance for stars and their pros to dance to the finals before the double elimination on Tuesday night, so we got outlandish costumes. Saw what...
Tags: Speedos, Entertainment Events, Justice System, Ice Cream, Politics
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