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Spy Agencies Hid True Number of Employees

By Jeff Stein | July 22, 2009 9:55 PM | | Comments (0)

It took only a couple months and about 100 CIA operatives and Special Forces troops, supported by U.S. air power, to chase the Taliban out of Kabul in 2001.

In contrast, the only thing the four-year-old Directorate of National Intelligence seems to be accomplishing is hiring more Washington bureaucrats.

Meanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee has found that at least some of the spy agencies under DNI's purview have not been reporting their true numbers of employees.

Tags: budgets, bureaucrats, CIA, Directorate of National Intelligence, espionage, government_employees, ODNI, Rep._Mike_Rogers, spies

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'Dead Fish Lady' Resigns from DHS, Takes Legal Action to Clear Her Name

By Jeff Stein | May 1, 2009 2:18 PM | | Comments (0)

Saying she still has no idea who sent her a box of dead fish, former top homeland security bioweapons official Maureen McCarthy says she has resigned from the department and begun legal action to clear her name.

Occasionally breaking into tears during a 45-minute telephone interview, McCarthy called her resignation "involuntary" and said she had suffered severe financial distress since being suspended without pay in February over the incident.

Tags: Battelle, dead_fish_lady, DHS, FBI, government_employees, Maureen_MCarthy, personnel_issues, Science_and_Technology_Directorate

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