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Jeremy Scahill: “no such thing as a clean war”

From On April 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Jasmin Ramsey

Yesterday a Senate hearing was held on the Obama administration’s “targeted killing” program, which you can watch here. It resulted in headlines like this. To date, discussions about President Obama’s use of “kill lists” and assassinations of those deemed as threats to US national security have mostly ranged [...]

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Filling the Empty Battlefield

From On April 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter

by Tom Engelhardt

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Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies [...]

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Petraeus’ Failed Legacy of Nation-Building in Afghanistan

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Further to Jeremy Scahill’s reporting on General David Petraeus’s impact on the CIA is a post at the Afghanistan Study Group by Mary Kaszynski on the costs and feasiblity of nation-building in the war-torn country:

Bing West, assistant Secretary of Defense for President Reagan, had this to say about [...]

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David Petraeus and the Militarization of the CIA

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill injects some badly needed context into the media frenzy over David Petraeus’s CIA resignation by examining the four-star General’s legacy against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized intelligence agency:

As head of US Central Command in 2009, Petraeus issued execute orders that significantly broadened the ability [...]

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Jeremy Scahill: U.S. drone strikes in Yemen threatens U.S. security

From On May 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This week Al Jazeera English (AJE) aired a program that speaks to an article we published on Monday by Dr. Emile Nakhleh, a former top Central Intelligence Agency officer and Mideast expert. Nakhleh argues that by continuously repressing reform movements within their country, the autocratic rulers of Bahrain, Syria and [...]

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