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Walter Pincus, a reporter for the Washington Post, is "one of several journalists who testified in the Valerie Plame case."

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Fine Print: The two sides of Hamid Karzai

In his address, Karzai took some sharply different positions than he had voiced during the Nov. 9 interview with Margaret Warner on the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." Take, for example, Karzai's description on "NewsHour" of why he thinks the United States ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Jim Lehrer,  United Nations,  Taliban,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Kuwait-based military contractor wins court delay

A Kuwaiti-owned company indicted in Atlanta this week for alleged fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and other products to coalition troops in Iraq , Kuwait and Jordan won a court delay Friday, indicating that it may ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jones Day,  Sultan,  Claire McCaskill,  U.S. Senate

Kuwait-based military contractor accused of inflating food prices

A major Kuwait-based military contractor was indicted Monday for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government by submitting inflated bills and false claims under contracts through which it has supplied $8.5 billion in food and other products to the ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sultan,  U.S. Department of Justice

Afghan roadside bombs now a priority for U.S.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is creating a department-wide task force to focus on ways to counter the roadside bombs that have caused 80 percent of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan . The challenges are different from those in Iraq , Gates told ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Gates,  The Pentagon,  US Department of Defense,  Government Accountability Office,  Taliban

White House confirms primacy of CIA station chiefs, ending turf war

National security adviser James L. Jones has decided that CIA chiefs of station in countries across the world will continue also to represent the office of the director of national intelligence, ending a brief turf battle between the heads of the two ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  White House,  General James L Jones,  Dennis C Blair,  Michael V. Hayden

Fine Print: Increasingly sophisticated weapons featured in Defense Dept's special projects

Take Bluegrass and Stiletto, two projects from the Defense Department's Quick Reaction Special Projects Program, which next year will divide $108 million among three of its research and development offices "that provide rapid funding to expedite new ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US Department of Defense,  The Pentagon,  National Research Council,  Boeing,  Central Intelligence Agency

GOP senators want to query attorney general on reporter-shield legislation

On Wednesday, Holder sent a letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee's chairman, outlining his views of the new version of the legislation. The proposed bill worked out with Senate sponsors, would provide varying levels of protection for ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Patrick Leahy,  Jeff Sessions,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Charles E. Schumer

Fine Print: Cheney had his own reading of 'classified'

According to the FBI report on the May 8, 2004, session, released last week, the vice president was asked about testimony by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his chief of staff. Libby had said Cheney authorized him on July 8, 2003, to disclose classified ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  Scooter Libby,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Central Intelligence Agency,  New York Times Company

1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Russell D. Feingold,  U.S. Department of Justice

FBI says 400,000 people are on watch list

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the ...

From WALTER PINCUS, The Washington Post,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Russell D. Feingold,  U.S. Department of Justice

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