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by Jim Kouri

During an interview on ABC television's Sunday news show "This Week," Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta explained a $100-million contract with the controversial firm formerly named Blackwater Worldwide to provide security services in Afghanistan. When the contract was first announced, several lawmakers voiced outrage by the Obama government's dealings with.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kouri/jim119.htm

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Why this gigantic “intelligence” apparatus? Follow the money

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

07/20/10

According to retired admiral Dennis C. Blair, formerly the director of national intelligence, after 9/11 ‘the attitude was, if it’s worth doing, it’s probably worth overdoing.’ I submit that this explanation does not cut to the heart of the matter. As it stands, it suggests a sort of mindless desire to pile mountains of money, technology, and personnel on top of an already enormous mountain of money, technology, and personnel for no reason other than the vague notion that more must be better. In my view, national politics does not work in that way...

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=7089


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA admits faking Osama bin Laden 9/11 confession video
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/869.html



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