News you may have missed #0071
August 19, 2009 Leave a comment
- CIA dismisses rumors Panetta is about to resign. The CIA is pushing back hard on insider rumors that Director Leon Panetta is frustrated and thinking about leaving at his one-year mark in February.
- Burma denies pursuing secret nuclear plans. The government of Myanmar has reportedly rebuffed claims that it is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.
- Is US war in Afghanistan turning into a counter-narcotics operation? Timely information about the Afghanistan Intelligence Fusion Center, an outsourced US operation based at the offices of the Afghan counternarcotics police in Kabul.