Tag Archives: CIA

“Compliments of Uncle Sam”

08-12-26 – 06:28:pm

WashPost: The CIA is pushing Viagra on Afghan warlords.
“Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people—whether it’s building a school or handing out Viagra,” said one longtime agency operative and veteran of several Afghanistan tours. Like other field officers interviewed for this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity when describing tactics and [...]

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Markets in everything

08-11-02 – 10:04:pm

Including fake markets for fake nukes:
I [“A-”-list blogger] immediately turned to the chapter [of Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?] on black markets, where [Brian] Jenkins [Wikipedia] quite sensibly argues that we should flood the zone with fake purveyors of nuclear weapons, materials, and technology to make it harder for terrorists to connect with actual merchants of [...]

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What comes before prior restraint?

08-07-31 – 11:48:pm

Lederman at Balkinization pulls this quote from US District Judge John Bates’s 93-page opinion in what he calls the “Miers/Bolton contempt case”:
There are powerful reasons supporting the rejection of absolute immunity as asserted by the Executive here. If the Court held otherwise, the presumptive presidential privilege could be transformed into an absolute privilege and Congress’s [...]

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