Government Agencies

Intel agencies seek help recruiting new immigrants (AP via Yahoo! News)

17 May 2008

The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence officials. The government's policies raise suspicions and fear in the immigrants' home countries and disturb potential recruits here who might otherwise want to help.

Spy agencies seeking ethnic recruits get an earful (Winston-Salem Journal)

17 May 2008

The United States is its own worst enemy when it comes to the important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence officials. The government's policies raise suspicions and fear in the immigrants' home countries and disturb potential recruits here who might otherwise want to help.

Burma junta hiding real death toll from aid agencies, says UN (Irish Examiner)

17 May 2008

BURMA’S military leaders were accused yesterday of deliberately keeping the full plight of suffering cyclone survivors from aid agencies.