Articles by Greg Miller – The Washington Post
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How a Modest Contract for ‘Applied Research’ Morphed into the CIA’s Brutal Interrogation Program
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
18 Jul 2016
In fact, the CIA already had a specific consultant in mind, and the agreement to pay $1,000 a day to psychologist James E. Mitchell subsequently expanded into an $81 million arrangement to oversee the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harrowing techniques against al-Qaeda suspects in secret agency prisons overseas.
→ read full articleU.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden, Hoping He Would Take a Wrong Step. He Didn’t.
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
30 Jun 2014
For weeks, senior officials from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and other agencies assembled nearly every day in a desperate search for a way to apprehend the former intelligence contractor who had exposed the inner workings of American espionage then fled to Hong Kong before ending up in Moscow.
→ read full articleU.S. Weapons Reaching Syrian Rebels
Ernesto Londoño and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2013
12 Sep 2013 – The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleDIA Sending Hundreds More Spies Overseas
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
3 Dec 2012
The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a spy service focused on emerging threats and more closely aligned with the CIA and elite military commando units.
→ read full articleU.S. Assembling Secret Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Officials Say
Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
26 Sep 2011
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.
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