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New York Times
April 27, 2018
“If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn't do better than Cliff Huxtable.” ... The Senate easily confirmed Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, as the nation's 70th secretary of state, making a foreign policy hawk the top U.S. diplomat. In the House, ScottÃâà...
The Guardian
April 25, 2018
Amazon is huge Рworth $740bn (̣̉530bn) at Monday night's share price Рbut it moves fast and is a lethal predator. ... the web infrastructure on which thousands of other huge businesses and vital organisations are built Рwith customers ranging from Netflix to the CIA to the UK's Department of Justice.
Newsweek
April 25, 2018
The first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compound where Taliban leader Mullah Omar and his senior commanders were gathered. But rather than decapitating the TalibanÃâà...
News965 (blog)
April 18, 2018
Confirming press reports about a secret trip by CIA Director Mike Pompeo to North Korea, President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had gone “very smoothly and a good relationship was formed.” In the middle of his own summit with the JapaneseÃâà...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (blog)
April 16, 2018
The CIA and its Afghan militia allies were pretty sure they knew where he was, training would-be suicide bombers in his Afghan hideout. Whenever they did get a read on his location, albeit briefly, it was thanks to the CIA's small fleet of surveillance Predator drones. They could fly high and for more than 12Ãâà...
Dread Central
April 13, 2018
Predator (1987) synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain (Jesse Ventura) and CIA agent George (Carl Weathers), land inÃâà...
Dread Central
April 11, 2018
Predator (1987) synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain (Jesse Ventura) and CIA agent George (Carl Weathers), land inÃâà...
The Durango Herald
April 5, 2018
The Russian technology market is not only weak, the story added, but “corruption in the judicial system ... makes it difficult to defend your case in court when a predator takes over a successful startup.” For all his shirtless bravado, and despite all the recent talk about how Putin is proving to be a successfulÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
The Russian technology market is not only weak, the story added, but “corruption in the judicial system … makes it difficult to defend your case in court when a predator takes over a successful startup.” For all his shirtless bravado, and despite all the recent talk about how Putin is proving to be a successfulÃâà...
Inside Unmanned Systems
April 2, 2018
For more than a decade, the RQ-1 Predator was the primary remotely piloted aircraft used for offensive operations by the United States Air Force and the CIA in Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal areas, and the General Atomics' MQ-1 Predator also been deployed elsewhere. But the USAF's long-servingÃâà...
Dread Central
March 31, 2018
Predator (1987) synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain (Jesse Ventura) and CIA agent George (Carl Weathers), land inÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 10, 2018
Created by Joe Weisberg, a former C.I.A. officer, The Americans could have easily been played for dark irony, an inversion of family values. Philip and ... What makes The Americans the most contemporary of spy dramas, despite its Reagan-era setting, is its centering of the female body as predator target and battle zone.
Breaking Defense
March 10, 2018
Its operators discovered they could also guide manned strike aircraft to targets, provide overwatch for ground troops, even use the Predator's two 105-lb. Hellfire missiles to provide close air support. Those capabilities, not just the ones that led the CIA to use it in targeted killings, were what made theÃâà...
Observer
March 9, 2018
The encyclopedic plot, culled from one of three novels by former C.I.A. operative Jason Matthews, is so demented that trying to figure it out is hardly worth ... Dominika has to find another way to support her invalid mother (a wasted Joely Richardson), so she turns to her Uncle Ivan, a sleazy sexual predatorÃâà...
Broadway World
March 9, 2018
Olivia Munn (The Predator, X-Men: Apocalypse, "The Newsroom") reports in for duty and makes her "SIX" debut as the smart, ruthless CIA operative "Gina Cline." From A+E Studios, the ten-episode second season of "SIX" follows Navy SEAL TEAM Six in a mission to destroy the terrorist network responsibleÃâà...
BBC News
March 8, 2018
One expert said the relatively cheap cost of operating drones such as the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper had led to a glut of video material. ... "The vast quantities of data produced by the US Air Force and CIA - as well as allies like the UK who operate these [drones] in conflict zones like Iraq andÃâà...
Bloomberg Government (blog)
March 7, 2018
He later learned that the CIA had used a modified Predator in the strike. Though the attack failed, it heralded the dawn of a new age of drone warfare. “It was something like the launch of the first supersonic aircraft or some other aviation milestone,” Wald said in an interview. “It was seminal.” The PredatorÃâà...
OntheBox (blog)
March 3, 2018
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the gruff mercenary, Dutch, in John McTiernan's iconic 80s sci-fi thriller; Predator. Alongside him in the cast, Jesse Ventura features as weapons expert Blaine while Carl Weathers plays CIA agent George. Hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group ofÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
March 2, 2018
Shortly after being found guilty of murdering his wife Doris Andrews, Mark Andrews' past came back to haunt him. One by one Thursday morning, during the sentencing phase of his trial, prosecutors called to the stand those who had known Mark Andrews throughout his life. First his brother, Jason Andrews,Ãâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 18, 2018
Inexperienced and lacking access to the Pentagon's resources, the CIA reached out to Lebanon's G-2 intelligence agency to recruit local operatives to .... Despite Clarke's spring timeline, a range of factors prevented the deployment of an armed Predator drone over Afghanistan prior to the September 11Ãâà...
AlterNet
February 11, 2018
And the CIA had these Predator drones that were always circling over it. On the night of October 7th, when the war began, they sent a Predator with missiles to try to strike Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the book describes this kind of Keystone Kops evening, where they lost track of him. They argued aboutÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 8, 2018
And the CIA had these Predator drones that were always circling over it. On the night of October 7th, when the war began, they sent a Predator with missiles to try to strike Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the book describes this kind of Keystone Kops evening, where they lost track of him. They argued aboutÃâà...
The Intercept
February 7, 2018
Jeremy blasts the use of former CIA and NSA officials as news analysts and the hypocrisy surrounding the FISA debate. In 1953, CIA scientist Frank ...... They used a CIA-operated Predator drone that killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, an alleged al Qaeda member tied to the USS Cole attack. That drone strike alsoÃâà...
The Forecaster
December 31, 1999
“The Summit Project's Honor Case,” 6 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland, honors Maine veterans who died since 9/11. Features engraved stones of fallen service members, through March 24. “Maine Birds: Watercolors by Michele Clamp,” Gilsland Farm Gallery, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth,Ãâà...
Kenosha News
December 31, 1999
Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright, the 10-episode miniseries follows efforts by the CIA and FBI in the late 1990s to counter the ... Tower” quickly sets up the CIA-FBI rivalry as a clash of cultures. ... A mistrial frees a predator on ”Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (8 p.m., NBC) .
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