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James Risen
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James Risen's Biography

James Risen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times who worked previously for the Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion.

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  • News Source: Truthout | 7 days ago
    Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t Report With recent news reports centering on Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that some Guantanamo detainees would be prosecuted in federal court and revamped, albeit flawed military commissions, important
  • News Source: HNN | 11 days ago
    Drugs, Corruption, and Justice in Vietnam and Afghanistan ... A Cautionary Tale Source: Washington Decoded (website run by Max Holland) (11-9-09) [Merle L. Pribbenow, the author of �Limits to Interrogation: The Man in the Snow White Cell,�
  • News Source: War In Context | about 1 month ago
    The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home. The financial ties and close

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  • Blog Source: emptywheel.firedoglake.com | 6 days ago
    There's a real continuity between this two-year impotent attempt to refute James Risen and his bluster from the last week. At their core, both appear to be attempts to manipulate asymmetric information to grasp powers for NSA that ...
  • Blog Source: www.truthout.org | 6 days ago
    The Qala-i-Janghi uprising came only days before a mass prisoner exchange took place with CIA-supported warlord Dostum, which, as New York Times writer James Risen noted recently, resulted in the killing of perhaps as many 2000 Taliban ...
  • Blog Source: network.nationalpost.com | 6 days ago
    “gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency [C.I.A.], and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials”, Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen report at The New York ...

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