Category: Politics

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Geoffrey Ingersoll Zero Dark Thirty Top CIA officials have weighed in on Zero Dark Thirty. Their conclusion: Kathryn Bigelow simply did not correctly portray the Agency’s torture box — the real torture box is much more comfortable.  Yes, three top spooks — Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, John Rizzo, former deputy counsel of the CIA, and Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Brett LoGiurato The poll found that 60 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the President, while only 37 percent view him unfavorably. He has an especially strong image among his base of Democrats (92 percent) and among Independents (also 60 percent). The amount of people who view Obama “strongly” favorably (39 percent) also outpaces the amount that view him “strongly” negatively (28 percent) for the first time in two…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Agence France Presse AP Photo/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi The United States has nothing left to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programme except for war, and if it chooses conflict Iran could close a key energy chokepoint, its envoy to Baghdad told AFP on Thursday.  Ambassador Hassan Danaie-Far insisted in an interview that Tehran retained the right to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of the world’s traded oil…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers AP Images Gene Rosen became emotional when describing the massacre. Conspiracy theories have flooded the Internet since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first graders in Newtown, Conn. last month.  The Sandy Hook elementary “truthers” have even begun harassing a man who was lauded as a hero after the shooting, Salon reported Tuesday. Gene Rosen found six children at the end of his driveway on Dec. 14 and sheltered them inside his home…

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