The pressure to perform is enormous. The CIA works with national intelligence agencies across the Middle East to get the job done. It devotes virtually all of its available resources to the task. Working with national government agencies throughout the region, the agency takes its eye off of what is happening in those countries.
As a result, the CIA misses the roiling popular uprising brewing across North Africa and in the Middle East. And everyone asks: How could it have missed such an important development? How did we not know?
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نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
To Whom It May Concern ...
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:58 PM PST"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." - Charles de Gaulle
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop." - Charles de Gaulle