Author: Patrick Lang

DIA Called al-Libi a Fraud Pre-War

by Patrick Lang (bio below) DITSUM No. 044-02, February 2002. This would be “Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary No. 044-02.” This document from the agency I worked for (DIA) threw cold water on the information...

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“CRS – SS!” 1968 – 2005?

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Cross-posted at EuroTrib.com.With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday, it was the worst one-day toll since unrest broke out … Five hundred cars were burned a night earlier. In a...

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Old Habits Die Hard at “Al-Hurra”

By Patrick Lang (bio below) “The Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal agency, has asked the state department’s inspector general to investigate, a spokesman for Karen Hughes, under-secretary for public...

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George Orwell would Recognize This

by Patrick LangThe FBI now issues more than 30,000 national security letters a year, according to government sources, a hundredfold increase over historic norms. The letters — one of which can be used to sweep up the...

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Tomlinson Resigns at CPB

by Patrick Lang(Longtime PBS Newshour analyst; full bio below) “Tomlinson, a Republican, quit shortly before CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz was to publish a report after investigating his activities, including paying...

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