Some leadership lessons for new CIA chief Ratcliffe to ponder
The stakes for our nation could not be higher as former Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe takes the helm as the 25th director of the ...
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Was the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban behind the CIA suicide attack?
Yesterday, Qari Hussain Mehsud, the notorious mastermind of suicide attacks in Pakistan, took credit for the suicide attack that hit the CIA base in Khost province, Afghanistan. Today, ABC News ...
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Former CIA analyst David McCloskey: ‘Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have left us no safer’
David McCloskey, a 39-year-old CIA analyst-turned-author ... do not think that we are safer for how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were prosecuted, and the political outcomes – or lack ...
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Intelligence: Witness Protection On The Afghan Border
For example, the CIA first began recruiting informants during the 1980s, in support of the operations in Afghanistan against the Russians. This network was allowed to lie fallow in the early 1990s, ...
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A Taliban fires at a UN compound in Kabul and is later found dead
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says a Taliban fighter opened fire at the U.N. compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a ...
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CIA Chief lauds Pakistan's role in promoting peace in Afghanistan
Director Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), USA, William Joseph Burns called on Chief of ... Thursday and discussed regional security situation including the situation in Afghanistan. It was ...
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CIA officer rates 9 counterterrorism scenes in movies
The former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou ... which landed in Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan — then a stronghold of the Taliban — in "IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack ...