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Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran?

Posted by Haaretz on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Media Freedom, Journalism, CIA

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By Yossi Melman, Haaretz
The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs.

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CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence

Posted by InformationWeek on 08 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media, YouTube, CIA

By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube.

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Daniel Ellsberg: Covering Up the Coverage - The American Media’s Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case

Posted by BradBlog on 22 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Pentagon, FBI, War Watch, Media Freedom, Journalism, U.S. Military, US Congress, CIA, Whistleblower

By Daniel Ellsberg, Brad Blog
In an Exclusive BRAD BLOG Op-Ed, the Legendary ‘Pentagon Papers’ Whistleblower Calls on the Media to Perform Their First Amendment Obligations, on Congressional Leaders to Perform Their Oversight Duty, and for Insider Sources to Come Forward to the American Public…

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2008’s News Before It Happens

Posted by Truth Dig on 16 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Humor, Rupert Murdoch, 08 Election, U.S. Military, Wall Street Journal, Business, Pop Culture, CIA

By Andy Borowitz, Truth Dig
Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor gives us a glimpse of what’s to come…

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NY Times Changes CIA Headline For White House

Posted by Politico on 20 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Politics, New York Times, Media Freedom, Journalism, Newspapers, CIA

By Michael Calderone, Politico
The New York Times has changed the subheadline in Wednesday’s front-page story on the CIA’s destruction of secret interrogation tapes, following a formal request by the White House.

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Bush To Name Journalist As New US Image-Maker

Posted by Agence France Press on 12 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Politics, Journalism, Policy, CIA, Human Rights

By AFP
US President Bush will nominate conservative journalist James Glassman as the senior diplomat in charge of improving America’s battered image abroad.

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TPMtv: Let’s (Not) Go to the Videotape!

Posted by MediaChannel on 11 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: USGOP, Bush, VIDEO, Pentagon, War Watch, Cheney, U.S. Military, CIA

We don’t know what was on them, who knew about them, or why they were destroyed, but the outrage over the CIA torture tapes was nearly universal on the Sunday talk shows.

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Who Watches the Intelligence Services?

Posted by MediaChannel on 07 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Pentagon, Journalism, U.S. Military, CIA

Andrew Mitrovica critiques North American media coverage of Maher Arar case. Arar is a software engineer who was deported to Syria and tortured, in an alleged example of the United States policy of rendition.

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Plame Book Criticizes Bush, Journalists

Posted by AP on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, USGOP, Bush, Libby, Cheney, CIA

By Matt Apuzzo , AP
Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House leak scandal.

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The Martyring of Che Guevara

Posted by Truth Dig on 10 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Commentary, CIA

The 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara elicited considerable media attention, mostly about his iconic image captured on T-shirts throughout the world. There were the standard snarky asides that many young people wearing those T-shirts have scant notion of who Che was, but the journalists reporting the story seemed equally ignorant.

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Joseph Wilson: Novak ‘Going To Hell For His Lies’

Posted by The Raw Story on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Journalism, CIA, Books

By Nick Juliano, Raw Story
To Wilson, Novak’s “I’m a victim” defense is little more than a last resort aimed more at upping his book sales than setting the record straight.

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Fox News Has A Beef…

Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, Middle East, Iraq War, CIA, Terror

By Liz Cox Barrett, CJR
Like Frankenstein, Fox News disclaimed a monster of its own making.

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CIA and FBI Computers Used for Wikipedia Edits

Posted by PC Magazine on 17 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, Ethics, FBI, War Watch, Policy, CIA, Wikipedia

By Randall Mikkelsen, PC Magazine
People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

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German Journalists, Parliamentarians Under Investigation For Leaking Classified Documents

Posted by International Herald Tribune on 06 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, World Press, CIA, Alternative Press

By International Herald Tribune
Seventeen German journalists and several members of parliament are under investigation in the alleged leak of classified documents related to a parliamentary inquiry into possible German government complicity in CIA prisoner flights and the detention of two men.

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Mining Of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying

Posted by NY Times on 30 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, USGOP, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, Cheney, Policy, Security, Right v. Left, CIA

By Scott Shane and David Johnston, NY Times
A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases.

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