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Lippman, Thomas W. "A Blueprint to Overturn Iraq." Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 10 Aug. 1998, 14.

"Directed by Congress to pursue more vigorous efforts to bring down Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Clinton administration has responded with a detailed ... plan to rebuild Iraq's shattered opposition and prepare a case for a possible war crimes indictment of Iraqi leaders."

[CA/Iraq]

Lippman, Thomas W. "For Safety's Sake, Should Some U.S. Embassies Close?" Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 18 Jan. 1999, 17.

This report focuses on the part of the report of the Crowe panel that suggests the most vulnerabable U.S. embassies may have to be closed in favor of regional offices in areas that can be better protected.

[Terrorism/EmbSec]

Lippman, Thomas W. "Two Governments Cloak Details of the Capture." Washington Post, 19 Jun. 1997, A10.

[CIA/97/Kansi]

Lippman, Thomas W. "Vulnerable Embassies Still a Problem for U.S." Washington Post, 4 Aug. 1999, A15.

A year after "the Clinton administration drew up plans to spend billions of dollars to protect U.S. personnel abroad ... the process of replacing vulnerable embassies has barely begun."

[Terrorism/EmbSec]

Lippman, Thomas W., and Barton Gellman. "U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM." Washington Post, 8 Jan. 1999, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

"The United States for nearly three years intermittently monitored the coded radio communications of President Saddam Hussein's innermost security forces using equipment secretly installed in Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors, according to U.S. and U.N. officials."

[GenPostwar/90s/UN-Iraq]

Lippman, Thomas W., and John M. Goshko. "'Spying' by UNSCOM Denied." Washington Post, 7 Jan. 1999, A18.[http://www.washingtonpost.com]

"Clinton administration officials acknowledged [on 6 January 1999] that the United States has received intelligence information about Iraq from United Nations weapons inspectors but described the flow of data as a byproduct of the inspectors' mission."

[GenCW/90s/UN-Iraq]

Liptak, Adam. "Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Abuse Suit." New York Times, 3 Mar. 2007. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 2 March 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent who alleges kidnapping and abuse by the CIA, "cannot seek redress in court because his lawsuit would expose state secrets." The opinion was written by Judge Robert B. King for the court's unanimous three-judge panel.

[CIA/00s/07; Overviews/Legal/Military]

Liptak, Adam. "Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act." New York Times, 7 Sep. 2007. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 6 September 2007, Judge Victor Marrero of the Federal District Court in Manhattan "struck down the parts of the recently revised USA Patriot Act that authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use informal secret demands called national security letters to compel companies to provide customer records." He "ruled that the measure violated the First Amendment and the separation of powers guarantee."

[FBI/00s/07; Overviews/Legal/Topics/PatriotAct]

Liptak, Adam, and Eric Lichtblau. "U.S. Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law." New York Times, 18 Aug. 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 17 August 2006, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that NSA's "program to wiretap the international communications of some Americans without a court warrant violated the Constitution, and she ordered it shut down.... Judge Taylor did give the government a minor victory, rejecting on national security grounds a challenge to a separate surveillance program involving data mining. That ruling is consistent with recent decisions of federal courts in San Francisco and Chicago."

[FBI/DomSec/00s; NSA/00s/06; Overviews/Legal/FISA; Terrorism/00s/06]

Lipton, Eric. "Administration Trying for Spy Satellites Again." New York Times, 18 Sep. 2008. [http://www.nytimes.com]

A "$1.7 billion project approved last week" seeks "to have two new satellites in orbit by 2012." The government's last spy satellite effort,the so-called Future Imagery Architecture, was canceled in 2005 before a single satellite was launched, at a cost of "at least $4 billion." There is already debate over whether the new program, the Broad Area Space-Based Imagery Collector, " should be building two new satellites of its own or acquiring images from private companies."

[Recon/Sats/Arts]

Lipton, Eric. "C.I.A. Veteran Races Time to Rescue Fledgling Agency." New York Times, 16 Feb. 2007. [http://www.nytimes.com]

Charles E. Allen, who heads the intelligence unit at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), "has taken on ... a job that virtually no one else wanted, to rescue a fledging intelligence operation that gets little respect and assumes a role doubters say is not even necessary." As he encounters opposition both outside and inside the DHS, "[s]ome of Mr. Allen’s friends believe his task is almost hopeless."

[Terrorism/DHS/07]

Lipton, Eric. "Homeland Security Chief Announces Overhaul." New York Times, 14 Jul. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]

Speaking to department employees on 13 July 2005, "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced ... he was reorganizing his sprawling department to better prevent -- or at least react to -- a terrorist attack.... [T]he secretary said ... he plans to appoint a new intelligence chief...and an assistant secretary for cyber and telecommunications security. Other steps ... will be the hiring of a chief medical officer to help plan for the thousands of casualties that might result from a biological, chemical or nuclear attack. An under secretary for policy will also be named, as will a director of operations coordination."

[Terrorism/DHS/05]

Lipton, Eric. "Report Sees Confusion Likely in a Sea Attack by Terrorists." New York Times, 4 Apr. 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com]

A report released on 3 April 2006 by the Department of Justice inspector general warned that "[p]otentially disastrous confusion could arise during a terrorist attack on a cruise ship or ferry because of a power struggle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Coast Guard over who would be in charge....

"After 2001, the Coast Guard, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, created 13 specialized teams based at major ports around the nation ... [and] trained to respond to a hostage situation or other maritime terrorism.... The F.B.I., a division of the Justice Department, has 14 of what it calls enhanced maritime SWAT teams and a separate hostage rescue team trained to respond to maritime terrorism....

"The government tried to clarify the roles through an October 2005 document called the Maritime Operational Threat Response. It says the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, including the Coast Guard, take the lead 'for the interdiction of maritime threats in waters where D.H.S. normally operates,' American ports and coastal waters. The document says the role of the Justice Department and the F.B.I. is to search for clues to prevent maritime terrorism and, if there is an attack, to investigate and prosecute. But the new report says the 2005 document has 'not eliminated the potential for conflict and confusion in the event of a terrorist incident at a seaport.'"

[FBI/06; MI/CG; Terrorism/00s/06 & DHS/06]

Lipton, Eric. "Spy Chiefs Say Cooperation Should Begin at the Bottom." New York Times, 14 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 13 October 2004, former DCI George J. Tenet, DIRNSA Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, and NGA Director Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. told a symposium sponsored by the United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation "that the way to defend the United States against terrorist attacks was not to reshuffle the top management but to improve cooperation among rank-and-file analysts, spies, investigators and military officers."

[Reform/00s/04/Debate]

Lisee, Jean-Francois. In the Eye of the Eagle. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1990.

Lister, David. " Britain's Top Spy Inside IRA Goes into Hiding." Times (London), 12 May 2003. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

"Britain's most important agent inside the IRA was in hiding last night after his identity and details of his 25-year career as a ruthless executioner was exposed by newspapers in Dublin and Belfast. The agent known as Stakeknife, whose intelligence was so significant that it was processed by a dedicated team and read at Cabinet level, was named [on 11 May 2003] as Alfredo 'Freddie' Scappaticci. Security officials said that he was in a secret safe house....

"The bricklayer son of an Italian immigrant who joined the Provisionals in the early 1970s, Mr Scappaticci rose through the IRA’s ranks to become a trusted friend of Gerry Adams and deputy head of the infamous 'Nutting Squad', which tortured and killed suspected informers."

[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]

Lister, David, and Ian Cobain. "IRA Mole: The Killer Who Became Britain's Finest Weapon." Times (London), 12 May 2003. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

"When Alfredo 'Freddie' Scappaticci wandered up to an Army base outside Belfast in 1978 and asked to speak to somebody important there was little to mark him out as the man who would become Britain's most important weapon against the IRA."

[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]

Liston, Robert A. The Dangerous World of Spies and Spying. New York: Platt & Munk, 1967. [Petersen]

[Overviews/Gen]

Liston, Robert A. The Pueblo Surrender: A Covert Action by the National Security Agency. New York: M. Evans, 1988.

Clark comment: Conspiracy theory runs wild in this book.

Kross, IJI&C 5.1, comments that the author's "provocative ... assumptions ... are not backed up by fact"; nevertheless, the book is "well written." [Clark comment: "Well-written" fiction is still fiction.]

[GenPostwar/60s/Pueblo]

 

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