Jezebel: Cia

CIA Steps Up Levels Of Female Executives

LatoyaPeterson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST

The British Intelligence Service, MI-5, smashed their glass ceiling by appointing Stella Rimington to Director General. Today, the Director of the CIA named Stephanie O'Sullivan to become third in command, in hopes of closing the US gender gap. [Atlantic] More »

Iran Accuses CIA Of Killing Neda Soltan

Anna North — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:20:00 EDT

Yesterday, Iranian ambassador Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the bullet that killed young Neda Agha Soltan was not Iranian, and thus her killers were CIA operatives or terrorists. More »

Obama Girls Are Over The Dog; Souter To Step Down From Supreme Court

Anna Holmes — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:00 EDT

In news that will resonate with parents everywhere, Sasha and Malia Obama are apparently shirking their doggie duties at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Says mom: "I'm still up at 5:15 a.m. taking my dog out." [People]

Hank Williams Jr. Pains Our Ears, And Our Brains

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:30:00 EST

Hank Williams Jr., who we started studiously ignoring after he murdered our national anthem during a Palin rally, has decided that he's not quite done with being part of a losing campaign and will challenge Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander in the primary for the 2010 race. [Politico]
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman today threw out Florida's 31-year-old law prohibiting LGBT Floridians from adopting children, noting that there was no scientific evidence to support the ban and Florida allows LGBT people to foster children. The state plans to appeal. [Wall Street Journal]
Barack Obama is adopting, too, and not just a puppy — he's adopting current Defense Secretary Robert Gates for his own Administration. [ABC News]

John McCain's Staff Tells One Reporter To Stay Off The Bus

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:00:48 EDT

Stephen Price is the senior writer for the Tallahassee Democrat (no relation to the Party) and tends to stick out just a touch when in a scrum of mostly-white political reporters. Last week at a McCain rally, he stuck out so much that a McCain staffer asked him and his legitimate press credential to leave. McCain's staff says it's because he was a state reporter, since, you know, McCain doesn't care that much about his local and state press coverage. [HuffPo, HuffPo]
By the way, the Swift Boat guys are back and now they've got books! And mass e-mails! And virtually no credibility! [Washington Post]
Speaking of lacking in credibility, House Republicans are claiming that their protest against House Speaker Pelosi's decision not to bring a drilling bill to the floor is lowering gas prices! [HuffPo]

Vanity Fair And The New Yorker Expose The Clandestine Operations That Sabotaged Iran, Hillary's Wardrobe

Moe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT

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Hola, patriots! We have a treat for you today at Crappy Hour: we read two really long stories for you, Gail Sheehy's first rough draft of the demise of Hillaryland in Vanity Fair and Seymour Hersh's investig-planation of what exactly your tax dollars are doing in Iran. And oh my goodness, the stuff we knew that we tried to forget knowing that, no no no, really just happened! Like how Hillary and Bill tried to pressure Obama into making her his running mate. Or how Admiral William Silver Fox Fallon quit because he was sick of hearing about the CIA funding a bunch of druggies and Al Qaeda surrogates just because they support "regime change" in Iran. Or how Hillary stopped paying Patti Solis Doyle. But anyway, we dug through and found some juicy revelations. Like the identity of the undermining aide behind Hillary's terrible chunky jewelry and ill-fitting pantsuits! (Although not that of the hot guy standing behind her in all the pictures. Yet!) Anyway, that, Al Qaeda in Algeria, a few memory lane changes with Gang Of Four and Time's Man of the Year 1951, and the poor Chinese guys locked up at Gitmo, parsed by me and Megan after the jump. More »

Paris Alive, Primping. We Can't Fucking Wait For Midweek Madness

Moe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:30:22 EDT

Two hotly-anticipated releases took place yesterday: A top-secret cache of CIA documents, and Paris fucking Hilton. Both involve mysterious drug use, breaking the law. Which got more media attention? Which yielded more interesting tidbits? Wait, don't answer that! But do vote in our poll of most loathsome moments in Paris after the jump!

Among Cold War Spies, "Swallow" Had A Whole Other Sexual Connotation

Moe — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:35:27 EDT

If you, like us, are fond of arming yourselves with intellectual-sounding anecdotes about world history with which to disguise the fact that all you ever actually talk about is sex, you will enjoy this piece on the Harper's blog that is very loosely related to a book coming out on corrupt congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham about sex and espionage: More »