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Argo – A Movie Review

October 28, 2012November 30, 2012 B. John 222 Views 0 Comments Action/Adventure, Adaptation, Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, CIA, Comedy, Drama, Hostages, Iran, John Goodman

The true story of the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis–the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However, six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. This is definitely a film worth seeing. I give it an eight.

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CIA Interrogation Tape-False Flag Alert!

December 11, 2007 B. John 295 Views 1 Comment ABC News, CIA, Enhanced Interrogation, False Flag, torture, Waterboarding

I sincerely hope that no one is falling for this “false flag” (I believe it’s called in intelligence parlance) of the CIA Agent suddenly coming forward to condemn waterboarding as torture, but then saying it saved thousand of lives when used to interrogate Abu Zubaydah. It is just too convenient that this “former” agent, John Kiriakou, suddenly gets permission to come forward and openly discuss this operation on the national news circuit. Does anyone still fall for this shit from this Administration? Kiriakou says he thinks there should be a national debate about torture. BULLSHIT. There should be no discussion about torture. What has become of the values of this Republic and we as a people when we have to have a debate about torture?

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A Mighty Heart

October 31, 2007 B. John 207 Views 0 Comments CIA, Drama, Thriller, Time

The film is based on Mariane Pearl’s account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl’s life and death.

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Waterboard Rumsfeld?

November 10, 2006 B. John 262 Views 0 Comments Abu Ghraib, Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Guantanamo Bay, rendition, SecDef, Secretary of Defense, torture, War crimes, Waterboarding

Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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So Long To The Constitution

September 11, 2006 B. John 213 Views CIA, Guantanamo, Interrogations, Toture

What Bush is doing in the run-up to the midterm elections is a disgrace equal to any other scandal of his nasty, incipiently despotic, regime. Using the hallowed anniversary of 9/11, he has demanded Congress pass a law that enables the major terrorist suspects, until now held in CIA secret prisons all over the world, to be transferred and tried at Guantanamo.

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U.S. Uses Children for Leverage in War On Terror

June 21, 2006 B. John 161 Views Children, CIA, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Unforunately, reports such as this no longer come as a surprise to me. Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.

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Syriana

December 12, 2005 B. John 266 Views Christopher Plummer, CIA, Drama, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Stephen Caghan, Syriana, Thriller

A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.

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White House Still Pushing Torture

December 5, 2005 B. John 255 Views attrocity, Bush, cheney, CIA, Congress, gulag, mccain, rendition, secret, senate, torture, white house

Reuters has a story saying that the White House has been meeting with Sen. John McCain in an effort to obtain an exemption so that the CIA can torture people. I continue to find it abhorrent that we are even discussing how this country might use torture. It’s proven to be ineffective, so to what end is Dick Cheney so interested in keeping this option open.