So, the DCI says that "I would not support, obviously, an investigation or a prosecution of those individuals" involved in the interrogation program...They did their job, they did it pursuant to the... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

Republican Senator Arlen Spector is opposed to investigating any alleged Bush administration abuses and crimes and I am not surprised. Maybe Spector is reluctant to investigate because he cannot... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

We Know President Obama ran on The End the War Platform , so why is this war growing ? even his allies are speaking out against this war. Mr. Obama don’t think we are ignoring your actions in regard to Afghanistan. we will not surrender our sons, daughters, husbands and wives to this war game ...

It's official - Chas Freeman will be in charge of filtering and evaluating the intel that President Obama sees. He'll be using the same kind of analytic nuance that led him to once declare that "Israel excels at war... it has shown no talent for peace." And in case you didn't know - that little piec...

even if it's true...? it's stunning to me how the u.s. can make sweeping pronouncements about other countries but won't bother to look in the mirror... from al jazeera... The Argentinian government has angrily criticised Leon Panetta, the new director of the CIA, for warning of a potential economic ...

If you're interested in how the vaunted foreign policy community is circling its wagons around professional Israel hater Chas Freeman, you can check out this endorsement in the guise of an article by pro-Freeman partisan Laura Rozen: A source close to Freeman said that among the critics taking shots...

take a look at this... real news editor paul jay talks with former cia analyst ray mcgovern about the u.s. machinations that led up to the mess that characterizes our current involvement in afghanistan... it seems that we - the u.s. - have this annoying proclivity for repeatedly shooting ourselves i...

Here’s a melding of celebrity and politics that might just be a natural: Academy Awardâ„¢-winning actor and sometime international political analyst Sean Penn is in talks to play former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, in director Doug Liman’s dramatic ...

Written by Bashmilah at Huffington Post is this harrowing account of our war "on terror" or as has become obvious, our war "of terror:" "From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world. On May ...

Dicking around: The officials said Tuesday that Mr. Cheney’s lobbying campaign on behalf of Mr. Libby was far more intense than previously known, with the vice president bringing it up in countless one-on-one conversations with the president. They said Mr. Bush was unyielding to the end, already f...