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Why the Post Story Terrifies the Intel Community
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for a Washington Post story published today. The story, largely reported by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Priest, details the billions of dollars of intelligence contracts fielded out to private companies. Both the State Department and the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees all intelligence agencies, have sent out internal memos regarding the story. Here's what we know about the story, what we know about private intelligence contracting, and how intelligence agencies are responding. Likely Conclusions of the ...
Report: Haitian Judge to Release US Missionaries
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 10) – The 10 American missionaries jailed in Port-au-Prince on charges of trying to kidnap 33 Haitian children may soon be released. Reuters is reporting that while no final decision has been made, the investigating judge in the matter, Bernard Sainvil, is close to deciding to free the Baptist group as soon as Thursday. "The order will be to release them," a source told Reuters. "One thing an investigating judge seeks in a criminal investigation is criminal intentions on the part of the people involved, and there is nothing that shows that criminal intention on the part of the ...
Failure to Connect Dots Recalls 9/11 Shortfalls
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- The headlines were sickeningly familiar. "Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror," concluded The New York Times. "U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab," CBS News reported on the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "What the CIA Did and Didn't Know About Alleged Underpants Bomber" was the post on Newsweek's Declassified blog. President Barack Obama received a report today on the intelligence failures that let the alleged underpants bomber board a U.S.-bound airplane on Christmas Day. But details have already emerged about tantalizing clues that ...
Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
Emily's Post: From Gossip Fodder to Gossip Columnist
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyHaving been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end. Everybody knows Washington politics is not for the meek or thin-skinned. And I've lived, worked and loved D.C. politics and media since I was 18 years old. In the years since, I've toiled on the Hill, at the State Department, in the Bush 43 administration, and for the Washington bureaus of two TV network news divisions. I've also counted chads in the Florida recount, run for my life from the Capitol on ...
U.S. Extends Iraq Contract with Blackwater Firm
By David Sessions - Politics DailyState Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the firm formerly known as Blackwater USA, which was banned from working in Iraq in 2007. Presidential Airways, the air wing of what is now called Xe Services, will continue providing air support for U.S. diplomats in Iraq. The government's contract with Xe was set to expire Sept. 3, but the replacement firm is not yet ready to take over. The State Department said the transition was "complex" and that moving more slowly would benefit all parties involved. ...
Guard Behavior at U.S. Embassy in Kabul Resembles 'Lord of the Flies'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyState Department contractors guarding the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan are working in a "Lord of the Flies environment," the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday. The group cited complaints from a number of the contractors, who described scenes of revelry involving alcohol, urination and public nudity among some guards and their supervisors. Several of the complaints, which were released to reporters, included photographs that seem to corroborate the claims. In a letter to Clinton, POGO said the situation in Kabul constitutes "a ...
Expert Packing Tips for Labor Day Weekend
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyLabor Day weekend means a lot of people are hitting the road and the skies for a last-ditch summer getaway. Unfortunately, a tiny little trip always comes with a great big chore: Packing. All modesty aside, I'm a world champion packer. Below, some tips I've learned to ease the burden. I acquired my Olympic-level packing skills over several years of working for the U.S. Secretary of State, which included overseas travel every other week.Often, these trips would literally take us around the world -- i.e., we'd head west from Andrews Air Force Base and return across the Atlantic. ...
Bill Richardson Hosting North Korean Diplomats
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn yet another potential sign of warming relations between the United States and North Korea, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will host two of Kim Jong Il's top diplomats in Santa Fe on Wednesday. The meeting with Richardson -- who served as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and who visited North Korea several times during the Clinton presidency -- comes at the request of the diplomats, the State Department confirmed. According to sources, Richardson will be all ears, but won't be authorized to negotiate. The meeting follows Bill Clinton's successful visit to Pyongyang, during which ...
Cankles Make Hillary Clinton One of the Girls
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyWhen it comes to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's fashion choices, women often talk about her trademark pantsuits and speculate that she wears them to hide her "cankles" -- slang for chubby ankles. The takeaway from years of public comments about her ankles is that Clinton's leg coverage has made American women fixated on their own cankles and that they're resorting to plastic surgery and new workout regimens to get narrower ankles. The battle to get rid of cankles was a front page headline in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, which prompted this stream of pre-coffee emails from my ...
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