News you may have missed #414
August 18, 2010 Leave a comment
- Arab nations challenge US support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy. Ignoring a US warning, Arab nations are urging Washington and other Western powers to end support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy and to push for international inspections of Israel’s nuclear program.
- CIA, FBI ready to flee US embassy in Turkey. The American embassy in Ankara and its consulate in Istanbul are so small, creaky and dangerous, that several US agencies housed in them, including the CIA, the FBI and the Agency for International Development, are ready to flee, according to an inspection report released last week.
- Ex-CIA chief says WikiLeaks disclosure was ‘inevitable’. Former director of the CIA General Michael Hayden has told the BBC that the shift to sharing intelligence after the 11 September attacks made a leak of tens of thousands of secret US military documents “inevitable”, and that it could happen again.