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You thought Phil Mudd was done? Months ago, Mudd, the chief of the FBI’s national security branch and a respected longtime CIA official, was forced to withdraw his name as Janet Napolitano’s nominee for intelligence chief of the Department of Homeland Security. Mudd bowed out in June after some Congressional staffers muttered to the press [...]

The New America Foundation’s Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann have a new report out tallying how many civilians have died in the Pakistani tribal areas thanks to the CIA’s drone strikes. Their conclusion: the strikes have killed, since 2006, between 750 and 1000 people; 20 of them have been “leaders of al Qaeda, the Taliban, [...]

Via Adam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new report out addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claim about Guantanamo detainees “returning” to the battlefield after the Bush administration released them.
Contrary to recent assertions that one in seven, or 14 percent, of the former prisoners had “returned to the battlefield,” our analysis of Pentagon [...]

Strategically positioned by the coffee, yet astrategically positioned near the recycling bin, my perch here in room 325 of the Russell Senate Office Building captures the crossroads that America faces in the war on terrorism.
Luckily, the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, has an all-day program set up to discuss the way forward against [...]