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The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has pulled its top spy out of Pakistan after terrorists threatened to kill him, current and former U.S. officials said, an unusual move for the U.S. and a complication on the front lines of the fight against al-Qaida. (more)

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall? (more)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10: Kicking off a spectacular week of sensitivity toward women’s issues, tonight Olbermann giddily crowed over the fact that two BBC reporters mispronounced “Secretary of Culture Hunt.” Then he told a story about the time that he himself made a pronunciation error in reporting on air about a “quail hunt.” GET IT? He repeated it several times in case you didn’t, almost bouncing out of his chair with excitement over the cleverness and hilarity of it all. (more)

NEW YORK — A key al-Qaida figure wanted by the FBI for the murder of 17 U.S. sailors aboard the USS Cole reportedly has resurfaced in Yemen despite reports two months ago that he had been killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan. (more)

“Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?” – Julian Assange, 2010 (more)

This is the underground lair where WikiLeaks’ own Doctor Evil stores the 250,000 secret cables that are wrecking US diplomacy. (more)

Is one of the Swedish women who accused Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of rape motivated by connections to the CIA? (more)

The Internet Age has given us much to celebrate: finding old friends and making new ones; communicating in seconds what previously might have taken hours or even days, and having breaking news at our fingertips, to name only a few . (more)

The first civilian trial of a Guatanamo detainee has come to its rip-roaring conclusion: a federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of one count of conspiracy in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa — and acquitted him on more than 280 other counts. (more)

NEW YORK — The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of most charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 – an opening salvo in al-Qaida’s campaign to kill Americans. (more)

Fair Game will be responsible for more theater evacuations than a fire alarm. Expanding to theaters nationwide on Friday, director Doug Liman’s ode to former CIA agent Valerie Plame, who claimed in 2003 that Bush administration officials had leaked her name and undercover status to the press in response to her husband Joe Wilson’s debunking part of their case for the Iraq War, is more interested in rewriting than in retelling history. (more)

Interview with “Fair Game” director Doug Liman (more)

It is an equation that is as certain as two plus two equals four: Sean Penn + Iraq War + Hollywood movie = something less than the truth. (more)

No one will face criminal charges for the destruction of CIA videotapes depicting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration, the Justice Department said Tuesday. (more)

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Do yourself a favor and don’t even bother going to the movies this November. Read more about why pretty much every movie coming out this month will suck below. (more)

Drama. Starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Directed by Doug Liman. (PG-13. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) (more)

Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture. (more)

Two shootings that targeted U.S. military buildings in Northern Virginia have been conclusively linked to the same weapon, and law enforcement officials think a third attack on a Marine Corps recruiting office this week could be part of the same unexplained spree. (more)