SpyTalk Archive: Lawandcourts
Kissinger: Release Israeli spy Pollard
Saying he found the arguments of other top former U.S. national security officials “compelling,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Monday called for President Obama to commute the remainder of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s life sentence. "At first I...
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Jeff Stein
| March 7, 2011; 2:50 PM ET |
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Rumsfeld complained of 'low level' GTMO prisoners, memo reveals
A newly found 2003 memo by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appears to directly contradict claims that Guantanamo held only the “worst of the worst” suspected terrorists. “We need to stop populating Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) with low-level enemy combatants,” Rumsfeld...
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Jeff Stein
| March 3, 2011; 7:30 PM ET |
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Foreign policy, Intelligence, Lawandcourts, Military
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Musa Kusa, Libya's ‘envoy of death,’ escapes UN sanctions list
Musa Kusa, the Libyan foreign minister who became known as “the envoy of death,” is not on the United Nations sanctions list, a notable omission that has lit up the exile tweetersphere. Kusa earned the grisly moniker years ago for...
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Jeff Stein
| February 28, 2011; 8:39 AM ET |
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Foreign policy, Intelligence, Lawandcourts
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Musa Kusa; Moammar Gaddafi; President Obama
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AIPAC wins court battle with former top official Rosen
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a $20 million defamation suit brought by a leading pro-Israel activist against his former employer, in a high-profile battle that involved charges of espionage and pornography. In 2009, Steven J. Rosen brought...
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Jeff Stein
| February 23, 2011; 8:00 PM ET |
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Financial/business, Intelligence, Lawandcourts
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Ray Davis rescue? 'Mission Impossible,' CIA vet says
Reported fears that Raymond Davis may not make it out of Pakistan alive may have the White House pondering rescue scenarios. The betting is that President Obama will somehow figure out a way to spring Davis, a CIA operative whose...
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Jeff Stein
| February 22, 2011; 9:00 PM ET |
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Foreign policy, Intelligence, Lawandcourts, Military
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Raymond David; Barack Obama; Jimmy Carter; Bruce Willis; Last Action Hero
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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...
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Jeff Stein
| February 15, 2011; 6:03 PM ET |
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Intelligence, Justice/FBI, Lawandcourts
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