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		<title>Secret CIA operations in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/25/cia-seeks-to-take-over-intel-programs-from-u-s-troops-leaving-iraq.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/25/cia-seeks-to-take-over-intel-programs-from-u-s-troops-leaving-iraq.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US president Barack Obama announced that the US military will leave Iraq by December 31 this year. But the CIA has a number of covert programs and counter-terrorism operations in Iraq that will continue, writes <b>Eli Lake</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The Wired chatlogs: a cry for help from a confused, lonely man</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/14/the-wired-chatlogs-a-cry-for-help-from-a-confused-lonely-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/14/the-wired-chatlogs-a-cry-for-help-from-a-confused-lonely-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adrian Lamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Manning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new <em>Wired</em> chatlogs alleged to be by Bradley Manning reveal a lonely, deeply unwell LGBT man at the centre of the US military's secrets.]]></description>
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		<title>They did it for the lulz</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/crikey-says-they-did-it-for-the-lulz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/crikey-says-they-did-it-for-the-lulz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lulzsec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=231546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So farewell to Lulzsec, who burnt brightly but, it turns out, briefly in the firmament of cyber security with a rapid-fire series of cracks and thefts ...]]></description>
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		<title>CIA launches WikiLeaks Task Force, aka WTF</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122104599.html?hpid=topnews</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122104599.html?hpid=topnews#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA, which have remained largely unaffected by the WikiLeaks controversies, have launched a special WikiLeaks Task Force to measure the impact of Julian Assange's whistle-blowing website. The acronym, WTF, is all too apt, reports <b>Greg Miller</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nazi war criminals given a CIA-sponsored safe haven</title>
		<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/8132550/Secret-papers-reveal-Nazis-given-safe-haven-in-US.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/8132550/Secret-papers-reveal-Nazis-given-safe-haven-in-US.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=186003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New evidence has emerged from a 600 page report written in 2006 that the CIA collaborated with Nazi war criminals and granted them a safe haven in America, writes <b>Toby Harnden</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeping away Bush&#8217;s crimes is tarnishing Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/08/legacy</link>
		<comments>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/08/legacy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=145120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The revelations that the CIA under George Bush was engaged in <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bush-administration-experimented-detainees-phr-report">human experimentation</a> on detainees is not something that the Obama administration can just ignore, says <b>Glenn Greenwald</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>CIA used detainees as human guinea pigs</title>
		<link>http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bush-administration-experimented-detainees-phr-report</link>
		<comments>http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bush-administration-experimented-detainees-phr-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=144525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's attempts to prove that "enhanced" interrogation techniques did not constitute torture actually involved the CIA using human experimentation on detainees.]]></description>
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		<title>The CIA plot to depict Saddam and bin Laden as pedophiles</title>
		<link>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/cia_group_had_wacky_ideas_to_d.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/cia_group_had_wacky_ideas_to_d.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=141237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The CIA created a fake video showing Osama bin Laden and his crew sitting around a campfire drinking and bragging about their "conquests with boys" -- and had plans to "flood Iraq" with fake videos of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy, the <em>Washington Post</em> reveals.]]></description>
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		<title>US military running private spy ring in AfPak</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/16contractors.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/16contractors.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=138960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <em>NYT</em> reveals the US is still is running a potentially illegal "rogue operation" of private spies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, employing former CIA agents and Special-Ops soldiers to gather information.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the CIA&#8217;s &#8220;dark prison&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100328/ap_on_go_ot/us_cia_salt_pit</link>
		<comments>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100328/ap_on_go_ot/us_cia_salt_pit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <em>AP</em> has compiled a chilling expose into the sketchy death of a suspected Afghan militant in the CIA's secret "salt pit" prison in Kabul in 2002.]]></description>
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		<title>Why the CIA baked a birthday cake for a suicide bomber</title>
		<link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i40SJffBByDXmDJMez_FlCn66YhwD9ELGNN81</link>
		<comments>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i40SJffBByDXmDJMez_FlCn66YhwD9ELGNN81#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CIA officers in Afghanistan threw a big birthday bash for a spy they thought could help them crack al-Qaeda -- but he missed the party, because he was busy blowing himself and seven CIA officers up.]]></description>
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		<title>How the CIA tried to turn a &#8220;gay terrorist&#8221; spy against Al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/gay-terrorist?page=0</link>
		<comments>http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/gay-terrorist?page=0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahmad Hikmat Shakir]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=124150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <em>NY Observer</em> has the bizarre inside scoop on how the CIA's failed attempt to recruit a "fat", "gay" terrorist as a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda, and how the whole saga may have prevented the FBI from foiling 9/11.]]></description>
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		<title>US running off-the-record private spies in AfPak</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html?hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html?hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=123477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A US Defence Dept official has been running an "off-the-books" spy operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the <em>NYT</em> reveals, paying former CIA and Special Forces soldiers to track down and kill militants.]]></description>
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		<title>Gruesome new details of CIA torture</title>
		<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/03/09/waterboarding_for_dummies/index.html?source=rss&#038;aim=/news/feature</link>
		<comments>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/03/09/waterboarding_for_dummies/index.html?source=rss&#038;aim=/news/feature#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Newly released internal CIA documents reveal lays bare the brutal details of the CIA's waterboarding practices -- the precise methods, techniques and specially designed equipment used to maximise the agony.]]></description>
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		<title>Blackwater is still working for the US</title>
		<link>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-names/story?id=9634372&#038;page=1</link>
		<comments>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-names/story?id=9634372&#038;page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=113449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon and CIA are still employing controversial military contractor <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topic/blackwater/">Blackwater</a> in Afghanistan (albeit under a new name), despite allegations of involvement in murder, gun-running, child prostitution and more, <em>ABC News</em> reveals.]]></description>
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		<title>CIA agents are moonlighting on Wall St</title>
		<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=113420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The CIA is allowing its agents to earn some extra cash by working for private companies on the side, with many offering their special skills as "human lie detectors" to help financial firms and hedge funds get an edge on the stock market.]]></description>
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		<title>CIA chief: We&#8217;re proud to be getting blown up in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803588.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803588.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA director Leon Panetta pens an op-ed for the <em>Washington Post</em> in the wake of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000201.html">news</a> that eight of his employees were killed by an Afghan suicide bomber: that's the price of war.]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s secret war in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/21/us-forces-secret-pakistan-raids</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/21/us-forces-secret-pakistan-raids#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=107560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Elite helicopter-borne US forces have been conducting clandestine raids into Pakistan at night as part of an ongoing secret war near the country's Afghanistan border, according to a former Nato officer.]]></description>
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		<title>Great unsolved mysteries in the War on Terror</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/12/unsolved-mysteries-in-the-war-on-terror.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/12/unsolved-mysteries-in-the-war-on-terror.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a year since Bush left the White House, yet so much about his "War on Terror" is still unknown: what did Cheney really know? Where have all the CIA's prisoners gone? Who forged the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027fa_fact">Yellowcake</a> documents?]]></description>
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		<title>The US hasn&#8217;t had any good bin Laden intel in years</title>
		<link>http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/12/where-is-bin-laden-secretary-gates-says-no-intel-in-years.html</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/12/where-is-bin-laden-secretary-gates-says-no-intel-in-years.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=103521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the government hasn't had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden "in years". So where the bloody hell is he?]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the CIA&#8217;s dirty work: former Blackwater chief reveals all</title>
		<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/01/blackwater-201001</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/01/blackwater-201001#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former head of controversial US military contractor Blackwater, Erik Prince, tells all to <em>Vanity Fair</em> about the company's assassination and espionage work for the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq]]></description>
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		<title>Two sides can blackmail</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/two-sides-can-blackmail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/two-sides-can-blackmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott, Nick Minchin et al are threatening their colleagues with the virtual destruction of the Liberal Party unless they get their own way, but will it work?]]></description>
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		<title>CIA outsources its dirty work in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/scahill</link>
		<comments>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/scahill#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US is paying <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html">controversial</a> private military contractor Blackwater to plan targeted drone-strike assassinations and run "snatch and grab" operations on key Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, according to an investigation by <em>The Nation</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside a secret CIA &#8220;torture&#8221; prison</title>
		<link>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&#038;page=1</link>
		<comments>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&#038;page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>ABC News</em> has uncovered the site of one of the CIA's secret European prisons: inside a fancy-pants horse riding school in Vilnius, Lithuania.]]></description>
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		<title>Why is America funding Pakistan&#8217;s spies?</title>
		<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia-pakistan15-2009nov15,0,4066853.story</link>
		<comments>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia-pakistan15-2009nov15,0,4066853.story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Pakistan's intelligence service, according to former officials, even though it's widely suspected the agency is helping Taliban extremists. ]]></description>
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