Antiwar.com Newsletter | October 19, 2012

Antiwar.com Newsletter | October 19, 2012IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisThis week’s top news: CIA Seeks White House Backing for More Drones: With an eye on launching more strikes in more nations, the CIA is pushing for White House approval to acquire yet...

Fusion Center, Boston Police Spied on Peace Activists

From the ACLU, a post-9/11 intelligence sharing and surveillance program spied on peace groups, including activists like Cindy Sheehan and the late Howard Zinn: We now have proof of what peace groups and activists have long suspected: Boston Police officers have...

Impressionable Malcontents, Jihadi Wannabes, and FBI Stings

Joshua Keating on the FBI sting that led a 21-year-old Bangladeshi to attempt to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The FBI report on the Federal Reserve plot is here.  Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis had been in touch with the FBI's undercover...