http://www.armytimes.com/…
By Matt Kelley
USA Today
Friday 14 December 2007
The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.

http://thinkprogress.org/…
from Think Progress by Matt
Last week, the CIA revealed that it had destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two al Qaeda detainees, including logistics chief Abu Zubaydah. Newsweek reports today that methods used in the interrogation of Zubaydah “sparked an internal battle within the U.S. intelligence community” to such an extent that one FBI agent “threatened [...]

http://www.atlargely.com/…
Posted by Jeff Huber
It seems as if the fat lady will sing herself hoarse before the Bush administration drops its fabulist’s narrative on Iran. Its echo chamberlains continue to condemn Iranian complicity in the deaths of American G.I.s in Iraq even though, as historian and journalist Gareth Porter phrases it, “The administration has not come [...]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…
from Crooks and Liars by Logan Murphy

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http://www.salon.com/…
The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.
By Greg Grandin
Dec. 14, 2007 | The world is made up, as Captain Segura in Graham Greene’s 1958 novel “Our Man in Havana” put it, of two classes: the torturable and the untorturable. “There are people,” Segura explained, [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
CIA Chief: Hill Should Have Been Told More
Probe of Videotapes May Be Drawn Out
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 13, 2007; A02
Congress was not fully informed about the videotaping of harsh interrogation methods used on two al-Qaeda terrorism suspects in 2002 or the destruction of those tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. [...]

http://www.alternet.org/…
????By April Howard
????AlterNet
????Thursday 13 December 2007
When the US Air Force Southern Command’s 10-year usage rights for Ecuador’s Manta air base expire in 2009, it can expect to be evicted.
????An earlier version of this article appeared on UpsideDownWorld.

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JULIAN ASSANGE (investigative editor, julian@wikileaks.org)
2007-12-12 (Wednesday)
Guantanamo Bay deletes detainee ID numbers, labels Fidel Castro “an admitted transexual” and more.
WASHINGTON–The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet…..
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http://www.fas.org/…
from Secrecy News by Steven Aftergood
A federal appeals court last week overturned (pdf) a lower court ruling that the CIA had won in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit involving JFK assassination records, and ordered CIA to continue processing the request.