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    1. Valerie Plame + CIA + Hillary Clinton

      Wilson and Plame Star in New Clinton Ad

      LOUD3R Score: 423 - May 10, 2008

      • Quality: 369
      • Community: 5
      • Buzz: 49

      Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, star in a new ad for Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Strongest... Full Article At Washington Post - Channel '08

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    2. Poll + Washington + CIA

      Red Alert - While you were counting polls...

      LOUD3R Score: 153 - May 10, 2008

      • Quality: 0
      • Community: 3
      • Buzz: 150

      My good friend and former CIA spook Phil Giraldi has some disturbing news in the American Conservative : "There is considerable speculation and buzz in Washington today suggesting that the ... Full Article At at-Largely

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    3. Valerie Plame + CIA + Republican Party

      Whose history is it? Who wants to know? - The Republican

      LOUD3R Score: 109 - May 10, 2008

      • Quality: 0
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      • Buzz: 109

      Whose history is it? Who wants to know? The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 59 minutes ago And it was when undercover CIA agent ... Full Article At Google News

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    4. Democratic + CIA

      The Dark Side

      LOUD3R Score: 325 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 169
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 156

      Top Democratic senators want the inspectors general for the Pentagon and CIA to investigate reports that enemy combatant detainees were drugged by U.S. interrogators.... Full Article At Talking Points Memo

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    5. Senate + CIA + Republican Party

      Senator: Ban torture but give CIA interrogation leeway (AP)

      LOUD3R Score: 319 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 113
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 206

      AP - Seeking to referee a stalemate over how the CIA can interrogate prisoners, a top Senate Republican says Congress should ban waterboarding and... Full Article At Yahoo! News - Politics

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    6. Senate + CIA + Republican Party

      Senator says ban torture but give CIA interrogation leeway

      LOUD3R Score: 265 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 3
      • Buzz: 206

      Seeking to referee a stalemate over how the CIA can interrogate prisoners, a top Senate Republican says Congress should ban waterboarding and seven... Full Article At Seattle Times

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    7. Senate + CIA + Republican Party

      GOP Senator Floats Compromise Torture Measure

      LOUD3R Score: 262 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 206

      Senate Dems are still pushing a measure that would limit CIA interrogators to methods approved in the Army Field Manual -- this would effectively ban waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques... Full Article At TPM Muckraker

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    8. Karl Rove + Valerie Plame + CIA

      The White House Has Got Mail — Um, It Had Mail

      LOUD3R Score: 64 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 0
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 64

      The White House Has Got Mail — Um, It Had Mail New York Times Blogs, NY - 13 minutes ago the former CIA operative ... Full Article At Google News

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    9. CIA

      Senators Call for Investigation of Alleged Drugging of Detainees

      LOUD3R Score: 62 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 6

      As The Washington Post reported late last month , a host of former detainees have come forward to say that they were drugged by CIA and military interrogators. Put that together with the fact that John... Full Article At TPM Muckraker

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    10. Vice President + Dick Cheney + CIA + John Ashcroft + George Tenet

      President's advisers knew torture against rules

      LOUD3R Score: 46 - May 8, 2008

      • Quality: 0
      • Community: 5
      • Buzz: 41

      President's advisers knew torture against rules Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - 8 hours ago Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney... Full Article At Google News

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    11. Terrorism + CIA

      Italian PM may be drawn into CIA abduction case

      LOUD3R Score: 274 - May 13, 2008

      • Quality: 256
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 18

      MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge could decide on Wednesday to make Silvio Berlusconi the first head of a government to testify in criminal proceedings over secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects.... Full Article At Reuters - Politics

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    12. Oregon + Valerie Plame + CIA

      Valerie Plame Unmasked As Clinton Supporter

      LOUD3R Score: 112 - May 13, 2008

      • Quality: 93
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 19

      PRESS TV Valerie Plame Unmasked As Clinton Supporter National Journal, DC - 5 hours ago In a new spot (subscription) released Friday in ... Full Article At Google News

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    13. CIA + FBI

      Ex-fed agent fined for fake marriage, data search

      LOUD3R Score: 78 - May 13, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 22

      A former FBI and CIA agent was fined Tuesday but won't be sent to prison or her native Lebanon for faking a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship and improperly searching an ... Full Article At Seattle Times

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    14. CIA + FBI

      KEN SILVERSTEIN—Was U.S. Private Security Firm Spying for Kazakh Government?

      LOUD3R Score: 130 - Today

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 74

      That's the question raised by this terrific Wall Street Journal story. The firm in question is GlobalOptions, an extremely well-connected company run by, among others, former FBI and CIA officials. The Kazakh... Full Article At Harper's

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    15. CIA + Islam

      Just So You Know What You Are Dealing With. We Have This From Alalam News.

      LOUD3R Score: 118 - Today

      • Quality: 0
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 118

      There is not good place to start in refuting this. The lunacy speaks for itself. West 'In a Slough Ignorance of Islam' Once again the CIA and MI6 are publishing dire warnings of the vitality of Al-Qaeda. Once... Full Article At Townhall.com - User Blogs

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    16. Libertarian + Convention + Libertarian National Convention + CIA + Denver

      Barr Announces

      LOUD3R Score: 108 - May 12, 2008

      • Quality: 0
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 108

      Item: Ex CIA officer/US Attorney/Rep. Bob Barr (L-GA) Announces Good timing: the Libertarian National Convention begins in two weeks in ... Full Article At Marc Ambinder

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    17. CIA

      Italian judge: PM to testify in CIA kidnap case

      LOUD3R Score: 81 - Yesterday

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 25

      An Italian judge has decided that Premier Silvio Berlusconi will be called to testify in the trial of several Americans and Italians charged with kidnapping a terror suspect during a CIA operation.... Full Article At Seattle Times

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    18. Valerie Plame + CIA

      Plame Renews Suit against Rove, Cheney, and Libby

      LOUD3R Score: 66 - May 9, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 3
      • Buzz: 7

      From the AP : Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity. A federal judge dismissed Plame's... Full Article At TPM Muckraker

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    19. CIA

      Federal judge orders CIA to turn over 2002 torture memo for review.

      LOUD3R Score: 63 - May 9, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 7

      In an “unusual” move, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of New York yesterday ordered the CIA “to submit to the court a 2002 memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used... Full Article At Think Progress

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    20. CIA

      Film Exposes the Seduction of Secrecy

      LOUD3R Score: 63 - May 9, 2008

      • Quality: 56
      • Community: 0
      • Buzz: 7

      In a riveting new documentary called “Secrecy,” former CIA operative Melissa Boyle Mahle tells the damnedest story about how a spy agency can outfox itself by over-classifying its files.... Full Article At CQ Politics

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. Its primary function is collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers.

Prior to December 2004, the CIA was literally the central intelligence organization for the US government. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 created the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who took over some of the government and intelligence community (IC)-wide function that had previously been under the CIA. The DNI manages the United States Intelligence Community and in so doing it manages the intelligence cycle. Among the functions that moved to the DNI were the preparation of estimates reflecting the consolidated opinion of the 16 IC agencies, and preparation of briefings for the President.

When discussing the CIA, it is critical to understand...More CIA @ wikipedia


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