America

The CIA sizes up New Zealand: ‘Racial Tensions’, ‘Communist Influence’ and more

by

The American foreign intelligence bureau yesterday posted online for the first time millions of pages of declassified documents. Toby Manhire scrolls through some of the intel published on New Zealand The Central Intelligence Agency is America’s foreign spook outfit, famous for interfering in other countries’ elections, complaining about other countries interfering in US elections and … Read more

Book of the Week: The murder of Osama bin Laden

by

Finlay Macdonald reviews The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Seymour Hersh  About the worst thing anyone will say of Seymour Hersh’s journalism is that he’s only “one of America’s greatest investigative reporters”. But that’s the New York Times for you, always hedging. Others don’t hold back so much: “The most feared investigative reporter in … Read more