Michael Hayden

Obama's Intelligence Transition Team: the Bush Third Term of Human Rights Violations

From DemocracyNow.org on Nov 17th 2008 Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama’s Intelligence Transition Team John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under...

U.S. officials spread fears over advance of Somali Islamists

WASHINGTON, Nov 18, 2008 (Sudan Tribune - Senator Russ Feingold, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, released a statement saying he is "deeply concerned" by insurgent militias gaining more...

Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little?

As Senate Democrats this morning prepare to reward Joe Lieberman with the powerful Chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee, the most commonly recited claim -- both with regard to the Lieberman issue and Washington more...

Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country's internationally...

When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?

In a talk to the Atlantic Council this week CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. But bin Laden's strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin...

Africa: War on terror's hidden front

U.S. military quietly trying to wage peace in Africa By Paul Salopek | Tribune correspondent The desert is a war. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cynthia Ramirez roared through it in an unmarked Land Cruiser, projecting the awesome might...

Terrorism next door

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Ahmed Quraishi While America's media is busy in demonizing Pakistan, and the CIA focuses on pushing already beleaguered US soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq into a new war with Pakistan, India...

Lonely President-Elect Ignores CIA Director

The L.A. Times reports on Barack Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes: President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he was assembling his national security team as quickly as possible because there...

Hezbollah, an Imminent Danger

CIA Director Michael Hayden said last week that al-Qaida was still the largest threat to the United States. He added, "If there is a major strike on this country, it will bear the fingerprints of al-Qaida." But some analysts...

How the Al Qaeda Terrorism Threat is Mutating (U.S. News & World Report)

U.S. News & World Report - Terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden is thought to be hiding in one of the world's most remote areas--the tribal territories between Pakistan and Afghanistan--but tracking him down remains a priority...

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