New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
In 2008, I published SPIES FOR HIRE, the first and only book on the privatization of US intelligence. I began my reporting on the nexus of national security and capitalism five years earlier, when I was thunderstruck to discover that the Pentagon had hired private contractors to “interrogate” Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The best of my reporting on privatization, much of it from The Nation, is displayed here.
My take on retired Air Force General James Clapper, who’s been appointed by President Obama to be Director of National Intelligence, from Foreign Policy in Focus. Clapper doesn’t lean toward either the Bush or Obama foreign policy agendas, nor does…
