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Blackwater reportedly OK’d Iraq bribes after killings

August 22, 2021 at 9:04 a.m.

Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007...

Bush approved raids in Pakistan

August 22, 2021 at 1:05 a.m.

President George W. Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval...

Turf battles delay hunt for Al Qaeda

August 22, 2021 at 3:17 a.m.

Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch...

Officials: U.S. let N. Korea sell arms

August 21, 2021 at 8:37 p.m.

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the UN to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete...

Military peers into civilians’ financial files

August 21, 2021 at 8:33 p.m.

The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part...

CIA chief warned Rice, records show

August 21, 2021 at 4:19 a.m.

A review of White House records has determined that George Tenet, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001,...

Employees: U.S. guided pay-for-play

August 22, 2021 at 11:35 a.m.

U.S. military officials in Iraq were fully aware that a Pentagon contractor regularly paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories about the war and made clear that none of the...

U.S. military paying Iraqi editors to publish propaganda

August 22, 2021 at 5:14 p.m.

As part of an information offensive inside Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspaper editors to publish stories written by U.S. troops in an effort to burnish the...

Airmen now part of force on the ground

August 22, 2021 at 6:18 p.m.

Straining to find ground troops to maintain its force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has begun deploying thousands of Air Force personnel to combat zones in new jobs...

Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Pentagon finds top officials have no direct blame for detainee abuse

March 29, 2019 at 9:50 a.m.

WASHINGTON - The latest Pentagon review of military detainee mistreatment criticizes U.S. officials for failing to set clear interrogation guidelines but concludes that Pentagon officials and senior commanders were not...

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