the guardian

The Guardian, fleshing out Siobhan Gorman’s Wall Street Journal piece today on the secret CIA “significant actions” that Director Leon Panetta cancelled last month, reports that the program was geared to assassinate members of al-Qaeda in friendly countries. Here’s what one former intel official told the Guardian’s Chris McGreal:
“One of the most sensitive areas has [...]

In another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency, former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal fight to prevent photos he claims prove he was tortured from being destroyed. Mohamed, who was seized in Pakistan in 2002 and later transferred to Morocco and Guantanamo Bay, was released in February and returned [...]

But The Guardian’s Iran election page is auto-refreshing every minute to bring live updates. That’s definitely something I’m keeping open all day.
Also, the Twitter hashtag for election updates is #iranelections. Some recent tweets are speculating that the reported high turnout figures are a ruse by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make Moussavi voters feel like they [...]