Sentences with phrase «cia covert operations»
(CNN)- Former CIA covert operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose identity was revealed during a 2003 scandal regarding intelligence - gathering prior to the Iraq war, took a swipe Wednesday at a group backing GOP Senate candidate Liz Cheney.
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As Kessler correctly points out, the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was basically a covert CIA operation — a fact that Congressional investigators have had to dance around as they proceed with their Benghazi witch - hunt.
While former CIA Director William Colby was publicly taking the line that the President has constitutional power to conduct covert operations, Colby himself had approved an internal CIA study which found that, prior to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act, there were no legal or constitutional grounds for covert action without the advance approval of Congress.
• Military activities against Nicaragua have included covert operations carried out through groups such as the National Security Council, the CIA, and other «secret teams» of mercenaries, arms merchants, and drug - runners.
I believe CIA imported cocaine into the US to pay for covert operations in South America, as that is a well known fact.
The latest underwear bomb found through the covert CIA operation is thought to be the work of Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, who designed the original device.
«Drones are evidently becoming important to CIA covert paramilitary operations,» says John Pike, at the US military think - tank Global Security.
Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.
Mention was made of Senator John Waltzer (D, North Carolina), the chair of the Armed Services Committee hearings, who was against the CIA's shadow organizations (he considered them «irrelevant at best or unconstitutional at worst») and covert intelligence operations.
Seal finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the US, one that spawned the birth of the Medellin cartel and eventually almost brought down the Reagan White House through the Iran Contra scandal.
The Losers, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name, was an all out action movie about a special - forces unit consisting of Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) who reluctantly join forces with a mysterious woman named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to stop a rogue CIA agent named Max (Jason Patric) who burned Clay's team during a covert military operation in Bolivia.
Adapted from the book of the same name, this limited series will chart the rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al - Qaeda in the 1990s, as well as the rivalry between the CIA and FBI which plighted America's covert operations.
Apparently, it was through his funding of a covert CIA operation in response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan that the mujahedeen managed to defend themselves successfully while simultaneously bankrupting the U.S.S.R..
The climax takes place on the grounds of a rundown play - land inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm (where the truth of her origin is revealed), and her primary hunter is a CIA agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who serves as both the wicked stepmother (There's little doubt that had things gone her way, Hanna would be working alongside her in covert operations) and the big, bad wolf (She appears, at one key moment, out of the maw of her archetypical inspiration).
This tense and frequently amusing reenactment of a covert 1979 CIA operation to smuggle assailed American political operatives out of Iran amid revolutionary chaos by disguising them as a film crew takes the material seriously while still having fun with it.
Follow American Made Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMade2017/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ammademovie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanmade/ — In Universal Pictures» American Made, Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), in this international escapade based on the outrageous (and real) exploits of a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history.
In his third time in the director's chair, Ben Affleck cements the fact he has made his mark as one of Hollywoods finest directors with Argo, based on a true covert CIA operation.
Macer is thrown to the wolves by her boss (Victor Garber) when she is recruited by a covert and vague CIA operation headed by Matt (Josh Brolin with a Kevlar smile and flip - flops) and the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio del Toro), who is some sort of private contractor.
On a previous mission you and your men were attacked by a covert operations wing of the CIA known as XOF and left for dead only to be found by them again 9 years later in a hospital recovering from your injuries including the loss of your left arm.