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The War on Terror: Rorschach and Awe
The story revealed, for the first time, two psychologists who were "the architects and teachers of the coercive interrogation methods first used at the CIA's black sites, which then spread to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.â€
Tags: war on terror; Abu Ghraib; CIA; abuse; interrogations; psychologists;
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11
Suskind identifies the doctrine, formulated by Vice President Cheney,as one that "separates analysis from action and embraces suspicion as a threshold for the use of American power." Suskind says Cheney was "the primary architect of U.S. foreign policy" during the period the book profiles, from immediately following 9/11/2001 until 2004. Suskind says in his IRE contest questionnaire that he was able to reassure several sources that he was willing to go to jail for an indefinite period of time to avoid nasming sources; and gave an example of his unwillingness "to reveal sources within ther government to quash the disinformation from ther FBI. Suskind says "The incident is, tereby, instructive in regard to new rules of engagement: the government will release information to cloud an independent report if they are convinced the reporter will be unable, or unwilling to reveal his sources."
Tags: FBI; CIA; NSA; NSC; Iraq; Pentagon; bin Laden; Zawahiri; White House; war on terror; al Qaeda; disinformation; Weapons of Mass Destruction; WMD; Chemical weapons; human sources; humint; sigint; George Tenet; Condoleeza Rice; Zubaydah; DCI
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The Mastermind
Close on the heels of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad's capture in Pakistan, CBS investigate's his larger role in world terrorism, particularly against USA. Specifically, CBS traces how Mohammad had directed his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, in the first WTC bombing in 1993. Further, Mohammad was not only the cheif architect of the failed American Airlines hijacking attempt in Phillipines, but also blending these two plans to make a blue print for the 9/11 attacks. The article also focuses on a raw copy of the audiotape with the voice of Ramzi bin al Shibh, who was Mohammad Atta's roommate in Hamburg, Germany.
Tags: Al-Jazeera; World Trade Center; Yosri Fouda; Karachi; Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden
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With friends like these...A proliferation of powerful outside groups that raise money for city agencies are secretly privatizing public policy.
According to the article, "On April 29, 1997, a group of well-heeled developers, land-use lawyers, architects, and lobbyists gathered at the New Asia Restaurant in Chinatown. They had coughed up as much as $2,500 a table, which is about the going rate for a major political fundraiser. But this time the influential crowd had not come to support a candidate for mayor or to rub elbows with a powerful politician. The object of everyone's attention was a group of low-profile bureaucrats: the staff of the city Planning Department."
Tags: city agencies; money; fundraising; fundraisers; Planning department; Planning and Zoning; politics; lobbyists; finances
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Menial Labor: North of the Border, Doctors and Lawyers Are Picking Broccoli
The Journal reports that "Mexico churns out degrees, but not enough jobs." The story reveals that college education is so prestigious in Mexico that "even the unemployed carry business cards proclaiming themselves licenciados." Eventually, many Mexican dentists, lawyers and architects end up working in the fields of the U.S.
Tags: professionals; illegal immigration; California; higher education
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Luxury by Design, Quality by Chance
Some of the big builders of luxury homes have cut corners in their rush to earn profits during the construction boom of the 1990s. New owners and building inspectors note walls that are unsecured to foundations, fake stucco, water-soaked wood that warped upon drying, sloping floors, uncompacted ground, and other kinds of building mistakes. Homeowners also charge Toll Brothers, one of the nation's most successful building corporations, with misrepresentation, sloppy siting, and building floor models that were far better built than the homes they later purchased. Further, the "major builders will not sell homes to buyers unless they sign away in advance their right to bring lawsuits."
Tags: home building; construction; developments; real estate; Toll Brothers; Pulte Corp.; semi-custom homes; architect; safety; energy efficiency; building plans; Anderson windows; water heaters; building codes; oversight; baby boomers
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City Whistleblower
This story focuses on the city of Dallas' senior architect, who blew the whistle on a selection committee by alerting the public that city officials were playing favorites in taking bids from architectural firms for the city's cultural arts buildings.
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT Bob Troy; architecture bid proposal process favoritism cronyism
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Scott Ritter's Private War
Saddam Hussein charged that the aggressive U.N. inspector Scott Ritter was a spy. C.I.A. polygraph experts had their own doubts about Ritter. How did one marine, operating by his own rules, make himself the architect and enforcer of the effort to uncover Saddam's secret weapons?
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Plain Dealer (Cleveland) investigates excessive cost increases and construction delays at The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's tropical rainforest exhibit; finds project's architect paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for work never performed, January - May 1990.
Tags: OH Long Thoma
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"Sleeping Watchdog: How Regulatory Error Led to the Disaster at Lincoln Savings'
This report looks at Charles Keating Jr., architect of the Lincoln Savings Loan scandal, who profited from a systematic breakdown of government supervision, including an often timid regulatory bureaucracy preoccupied with petty turf wars, and a White House and Congress that looked the other way while taxpayers lost nearly $3 billion.
Tags: Jackson; Greenspan; Wall; Cranston; DeConcini; McCain; Glenn; Riegle; banks