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How CIA Money, Drug Money and Taliban Money Mix in the Same Pot

By | 10.28.09 | 4:26 pm

As I’ve been writing since last night, the tale of the CIA’s payments to Ahmed Wali Karzai seems less like a story about corruption than it does a story about the insurgency. Gretchen Peters, author of a recent book about the drug trade in Afghanistan and its effects on More…

Meta-Post: No One Wants to Talk About CIA Briefings on Karzai’s Brother

By | 10.28.09 | 2:56 pm

It seems like only yesterday that members of Congress bitterly determined that the CIA didn’t sufficiently or accurately brief them about various important secret activities. That’s because it was! But today is a new day, and no one on the Hill wants to talk about whether they’ve More…