SpyTalk: February 13, 2011 - February 19, 2011

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By Jeff Stein  | February 18, 2011; 1:34 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
 
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Ex-CIA analyst Patrick Eddington accuses agency of ‘sitting on’ Gulf War illness documents

A former CIA intelligence analyst says in a new book that the agency is “sitting on” 1.5 million documents that could shed new light on the mysterious maladies that have afflicted veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. 
“Twenty years...

By Jeff Stein  | February 17, 2011; 12:00 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (5)
Categories:  Foreign policy, Intelligence, Media, Military  
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Ivins case’s inconvenient issue: his polygraph

The FBI and the National Academy of Science today jousted over the quality of science applied to solve the 2001 anthrax attacks, but another inconvenient piece of the puzzle seems to have been artfully swept under the rug: the fact...

By Jeff Stein  | February 15, 2011; 6:03 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (8)
Categories:  Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts  
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Intelligence panels ignored CIA officer's pleas

Reform of the state secrets privilege, which allows the CIA and similar agencies to seek the dismissal of lawsuits by claiming they would harm national security, can't come come soon enough for ex-CIA officer Kevin Shipp. Last week Shipp went...

By Jeff Stein  | February 14, 2011; 5:50 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
Categories:  Congress, Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts  | Tags:  Kevin Shipp; Rep. Frank R. Wolf; Mark Zaid  
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