The Afternoon Round-Up

Spy vs. Spy
The country’s top spy, director of national intelligence Michael McConnell, says his agencies continue to engage in domestic surveillance by using all kinds of neat tricks and technology.

New CIA files reveal Henry Kissinger’s role in pushing for Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The former Secretary of State was President Bush’s first choice to lead a blue-ribbon investigation into the 9/11 attacks. But he was removed shortly after a private meeting with members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee who asked him point-blank if he had any clients named Bin Laden. Kissinger’s response to the query: stuttering and mumbling.

Here’s the rest of the CIA’s long-awaited “Family Jewels.”

Scandal Sheet
Jack Abramoff gets off … in a civil suit filed by thirteen former employees of the now-defunct Jewish Eshkol Academy. The convicted lobbyist and his wife contributed plenty of money and helped set up the school; last week, a judge dismissed the case.

Iraq War
The U.S. has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Alliant Techsystems Inc. of delivering defective illumination flares used in critical search and rescue and combat operations to the American military, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced yesterday.

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