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• 19 Feb 2009

  New CIA chief, new torture policies?

  WASHINGTON DC, USA – In a couple of hours the new CIA director will be sworn in – the heavy-jowled Leon Panetta who used to be Bill Clinton’s chief of staff. His appointment was meant to send the message loud and clear that the CIA and America had radically changed since Obama himself was sworn in.…

• 18 Feb 2009

  Jon Snow

  Stellar insight from our former MI5 chief: pt 2

  When I was a cub reporter in 1974, even when the IRA was on the loose, bombing Britain’s streets, the number of cases held “in camera” in mainland Britain numbered one or two – in the main, they were spy cases. Very occasionally specific elements of a case – the name of an agent or…