We are mostly defending ourselves. Today, democracy now exclusive come the first time u. S. Tv radio broadcaster goes inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in london for sitdown interview with wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange. He just entered his third year in the embassy where he has political asylum while he faces investigations in both sweden and the United States. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel has carried out deadly strikes on the gaza strip amidst continued violence following the killings of a palestinian teenager and three teenage israeli settlers. At least nine hamas members were killed sunday when the Israeli Military bombed two parts of the gaza. It was israels deadliest strike on gaza since an eightday assault in late 2012. Hamas has called the strikes a grave escalation and has threatened to retaliate. Palestinian rocket attacks have continued on southern parts of israel, with 25
We are mostly defending ourselves. Today, democracy now exclusive come the first time u. S. Tv radio broadcaster goes inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in london for sitdown interview with wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange. He just entered his third year in the embassy where he has political asylum while he faces investigations in both sweden and the United States. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel has carried out deadly strikes on the gaza strip amidst continued violence following the killings of a palestinian teenager and three teenage israeli settlers. At least nine hamas members were killed sunday when the Israeli Military bombed two parts of the gaza. It was israels deadliest strike on gaza since an eightday assault in late 2012. Hamas has called the strikes a grave escalation and has threatened to retaliate. Palestinian rocket attacks have continued on southern parts of israel, with 25
Jeffrey Scudder shares his story about how his career unraveled. (Theresa Poulson/The Washington Post)
In response to a hard-fought FOIA lawsuit brought by former agency employee and IT specialist, Jeffrey Scudder, the CIA has posted a collection of 249 unclassified and declassified
Studies in Intelligence articles to its website.
Scudder, then a project manager for the CIA’s Historical Collections Division, filed a FOIA request in 2o07 for 419
Studies in Intelligence articles after discovering “a stack of articles, hundreds of histories of long-dormant conflicts and operations that he concluded were still being stored in secret years after they should have been shared with the public.” During the process of filing the request, Scudder was “confronted by supervisors and accused of mishandling classified information while assembling his FOIA request. His house was raided by the FBI and his family’s computers seized. Stripped of his job and his security clearanc