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Obama Sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Obama's changes, expected to be announced at the White House on Thursday, also will include a new ambassador and war commander in Afghanistan. However, they don't signal any major adjustment in the president's Afghan strategy or the fight against violent extremism. The moves ...
CIA Sends Teams to Libya; US Considers Rebel Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya and helped rescue a crew member of a U.S. fighter jet that crashed, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing "all types of assistance" for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi's troops. Battlefield setbacks are hardening the U.S. view that the poorly equipped opposition probably is incapable of prevailing without decisive Western intervention, a senior U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press. Lawmakers, in private briefings with top Obama administration officials, asked tough questions about the cost of ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
CIA Chief: Mubarak Likely on His Way Out
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- CIA Director Peon Panetta says U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out. Panetta tells Congress that his information indicates the U.S.-backed strongman could be out by Thursday night. He says there is a "high likelihood" of that. Panetta did not say exactly how the CIA reached that conclusion. He says Mubarak's exit would be "significant" in moving Egypt to an "orderly transition" of power. Egypt's military announced on national television that it has stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that Mubarak will meet ...
CIA Officers Made Grave Mistakes, Then Got Promoted
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan. But he was the wrong guy. A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations by an internal review, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she has risen to one of the premier jobs in the CIA's ...
Nidal Hasan a 'Ticking Time Bomb': 4 Key Conclusions from the Senate Inquiry
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsMaj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of going on a shooting spree at Fort Hood in 2009, was known as a "ticking time bomb" who could have been stopped by the military or the FBI. That's the conclusion of a Senate inquiry led by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. In an 89-page report released today, Lieberman and Collins criticized the Army, the FBI and the Department of Defense for failing to act on worrisome information about Hasan. Thirty-two people were wounded and 13 were killed during the Fort Hood massacre. Although previous investigations have ...
Swiss Official Wants 3 Charged With Nuke Smuggling
By not in system - AOL NewsBERN, Switzerland -- A Swiss magistrate says smuggling charges should be brought against three Swiss engineers suspected of giving nuclear weapons technology to a rogue network in Pakistan - a case that has CIA ties, shredded documents and national security implications. The investigating magistrate, Andreas Mueller, said his recommendation is based on an exhaustive, difficult probe into an alleged nuclear smuggling ring. He has submitted his report to federal prosecutors, who will decide whether to bring charges on violating Swiss nonproliferation laws. The six-year federal probe against ...
Wait, WTF? CIA Forms WikiLeaks Task Force (Get It?)
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsOMG, LOL! The Central Intelligence Agency has launched a task force to investigate the impact of WikiLeaks and its massive release of U.S. diplomatic cables. Officially, the unit is called the WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF, which, um, also happens to be the abbreviated slang for the phrase "What the f***." Who knew spies had such a sense of humor? "The irreverence is perhaps understandable for an agency that has been relatively unscathed by WikiLeaks," explains The Washington Posts' Greg Miller. "Only a handful of CIA files have surfaced on the WikiLeaks website, and records from other ...
US Created 'Safe Haven' for Nazis, Report Says
By Lisa Holewa - AOL News
(Nov. 14) -- The United States created a safe haven for some Nazis after World Ward II, granting them entry even though government officials knew of their pasts, according to a U.S. Justice Department report detailed in today's New York Times. "America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became -- in some small measure -- a safe haven for persecutors as well," the report says, describing what it calls "the government's collaboration with persecutors." The Justice Department cited "numerous factual errors and omissions" in the report, according to the Times, but ...
CIA Won't Be Charged for Destroying Videotapes
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- No one at the Central Intelligence Agency will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes that showed suspected terrorists being waterboarded, the Justice Department announced today. After an "exhaustive" investigation spanning nearly three years, federal prosecutor John Durham has decided not to bring charges in the case, Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said today in a statement. Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's former head of clandestine operations, ordered the 2005 destruction of more than 90 tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd ...
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