The CIA's Secret War with Dana Priest

Dana Priest returns to UC Santa Cruz to receive the first annual Social Sciences Division "Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award" and deliver a lecture on the secret CIA-run prisons for terror suspects she exposed as the national security correspondent for the Washington Post. [3/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11488]

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Education

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• CIA
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• terror
• national
• security
• politics

[irish89055]

@VoidOnTuesday how's that comment workin out for ya??

[emotionalinvalid]

Indeed the war on terror and killing so many civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to more terror. What everyone seems to forget is that 911 was itself an inevitable terrorist reaction--"blowback as cia itself called it-- due to decades of the Fortune 500/military complex's bloody covert and overt actions, propping up dictators(like Saddam Hussein), etc in the middle east. The west and post ww2 US gov "started it". And its the innocents, there prior to 911, here on 911, and on&on it goes.

[emotionalinvalid]

@christvbible content is what is important. resolution or production quality are not of any consequence. I have never heard anyone who promotes alternative media complain about resolution. Analogy: I would rather listen to an old scratchy lp record of lets say a set of Scriaban's piano etudes than to hear and watch an HD dvd by Lady Gaga. Anyway these type of videos are for listening. I listen to alternative media as low as 16 kpbs and I tolerate it because it is better content

[christvbible]

I'd not heard of Dana til she was mentioned by Phil Shiner a Lawyer representing prisoners abused by private security forces in Iraq. Her position on the causes of the war on Iraq is conditioned by the PR machine of the CIA which we all know has limitless funding to create news wire networks that feed into mainstream media. They setup a network of media outlets around the world during US offensive in Vietnam employing such people as Dana. Her ambiguity is troubling

[christvbible]

Why post a video with a low resolution. This prevents useful dissemination of critical information vital to the growth of alternative news in the public domain

[lmollot]

academics are the reason gov cia police attack the masses and tortures- to get massaes to serve academics "distinguished" and pay their excess salaries-which noone voted for- the slaves and forests of the world cannot support the academic corporations anymore- we are tortured and dying-but still knowing this-academics dont stop

[tessler6868]

it appears the previous 10 comments were made during class break at open enrollment community college....

[hornetobiker]

Shame. another 911 collaborator.

[VoidOnTuesday]

@Elbert51 she doesn't mean that Iraq is a training ground for terrorism. The US;s involvement and successive failure in Iraq has lead to a more hostile and radically Islamic environment for us to contend with.

[VoidOnTuesday]

@blaktalez keep in mind this was recorded 5 years ago...