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    The CIA Then and Now, and the Role of Dick Cheney

    Today, the CIA released 693 pages of reports about 25 years of illegal activities during the 1950's, 60's and 70's, a report nick-named " Family Jewels ." It tells of illegal wiretaps and domestic surveillance, assassination plots and human experimentation.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Today, the CIA released 693 pages of reports about 25 years of illegal activities during the 1950's, 60's and 70's, a report nick-named "Family Jewels." It tells of illegal wiretaps and domestic surveillance, assassination plots and human experimentation. CIA Director, General Michael Hayden, calls it, "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency." What are the differences -- and similarities -- between then and now, with Dick Cheney the President's "go-to guy" on intelligence?

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      senior advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice

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      Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive

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    Dick Cheney, the CIA and the 'Family Jewels'
    1. 1:39Immigration Bill Revived
    2. 7:32The CIA Then and Now, and the Role of Dick CheneyYou’re reading this
    3. 43:16New Orleans Gets a Citywide Recovery Plan...Finally
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