Oct 14 How a Reno casino con man duped the CIA and pulled one of the ‘most dangerous hoaxes’ in American history By Travis Daub In the winter of 2003, the CIA came into possession of a specific and disturbing bit of information. Al Qaeda, the intelligence said, was planning to strike the U.S. by hijacking a specific list of incoming international flights from France… Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch Spoils of kidnapping are financing al-Qaida, reveals New York Times By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch What’s holding up the closure of Guantanamo Bay? By PBS News Hour The exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has raised larger questions about prisoners being transferred from Guantanamo Bay. In all, 149 detainees from 19 countries still remain at the prison camp. For debate on what’s preventing the… Continue watching
May 27 Watch How realistic is Obama’s new Afghanistan timeline? By PBS News Hour President Obama declared 2014 a pivotal year in pulling nearly all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016. To examine the timetable laid out by the president, Gwen Ifill gets views from former Defense Department official Michèle… Continue watching
Mar 24 Report on Bush-era war on terror may further divide Congress, CIA By Bradley Klapper & Stephen Braun, Associated Press If senators vote this week to release key sections of a voluminous report on terrorist interrogations, an already strained relationship between lawmakers and the CIA could become even more rancorous, and President Barack Obama might have to step into the… Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch Revealing the origin of a secret CIA black op prison in Poland By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch Freed from Guantánamo, but stuck in limbo By PBS News Hour After 9/11, six ethnic Chinese men known as Uighurs were rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They spent eight years in prison before being cleared of any wrongdoing by U.S. courts, and now find themselves stranded in a legal and… Continue watching
May 23 Watch Obama Addresses Drones, Gitmo in Speech on Refocusing Strategy on Terrorism Obama Addresses Drones, Gitmo in Speech on Refocusing Strategy on Terrorism… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch The Doubleheader: Killing al-Awlaki, Occupy Wall Street and Red Sox Failure Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch Was U.S.-Backed Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki Legal? Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-level U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaida, was killed in Yemen Friday by a U.S. airstrike targeting his convoy. Ray Suarez discusses the implications and legality of his killing with Brian Fishman of The New America Foundation and… Continue watching