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James Risen (born April 27, 1955) is an American journalist for The Intercept.He previously worked for The New York Times and before that for Los Angeles Times.He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion.
Risen alleges that almost 12 billion dollars sent from the U.S. to Iraq "is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared". [2] The book also investigates the use of torture and the cooperative role of the American Psychological Association in the enhanced interrogation program , as well as the threat to the right to privacy posed by NSA ...
James Samuel Rosen (born September 2, 1968) is an American journalist, television correspondent, and author, who is a former Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Fox News Channel. In 2013, he gained wide spread public attention after Department of Justice labeled Rosen a possible criminal 'co-conspirator'" after being given classified ...
Risen also alleges that the Bush Administration is responsible for transformation of Afghanistan into a "narco-state", that provides a purported 80% of the world's heroin supply. Risen was subpoenaed twice to disclose his sources for the book, first by the George W. Bush administration and then by the Barack Obama administration.
Operation Merlin backfired when the CIA's Russian contact/messenger noticed flaws in the schematics and told the Iranian nuclear scientists. [5] Instead of crippling Iran's nuclear program, the book alleges, Operation Merlin may have accelerated it by providing useful information: once the flaws were identified, the plans could be compared with other sources, such as those presumed to have ...
On April 17, 2013, FBI agents detained a Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis impersonator, Paul "Kevin" Curtis, [3] on suspicion of mailing the ricin-laced letters. [5] [6] [11] Curtis had had disputes with letter recipients Roger Wicker and Judge Sadie Holland as well as Holland's son Steve Holland. [3]
The second series premiered on 14 September 2017 on ABC. Series two follows James and the Risen as they begin to unravel the mystery of how and why they are back, though their journey of reconciliation, romance, and revenge is soon disrupted by a new and even more lethal threat.
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act for revealing details about Operation Merlin (a covert operation to supply Iran with flawed nuclear warhead blueprints) to journalist James Risen.