Central Intelligence Agency

"The Double" Is Post-Cold War Spy Film, Grade-B Hokum

Osama bin Laden's Porn Collection

Watching intently.​We found bin Laden's porn!This news comes courtesy of Reuters. And though Reuters admits that the super-secret CIA leakers who gave them this information can't confirm that the porn definitely belonged to Osama bin Laden -- as opposed to, say, his wives or sons -- who cares? The ... More >>

Ann Coulter Misleads, Defends Torture

​Ann Coulter is either cynical or crazy. I'm hoping for the latter, because I'd hate to think my home state contains anyone willing to dissemble as freely and viciously as she does in her latest column -- a hot mess of half-assertions and quarter-truths too sloppy to illuminate anything even in th ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! (Dead Body PHOTO?)

​If you haven't yet heard, Osama bin Laden is dead!  President Obama just spoke and confirmed that his body

MSNBC: South Floridian Oil Man May Have Bribed Jordanian Officials

King Abdullah II​Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officia ... More >>

Alleged Terrorist Got Help From South Florida Exiles, Cuba Claims

Venezuelan police take Abarca to the airport before he's extradited to Cuba.​Francisco Chávez Abarca didn't make it far when he tried to get into Venezuela on July 1. Authorities detained the Salvadoran at the airport on charges that he allegedly planned bombings in Cuba.After Abarca's arrest, Ve ... More >>

Fate Has Been Kind: People Who Should Be Dead (but Aren't)

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Angelina Jolie's Contradictions Buoy the Otherwise Rote "Salt"

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

"Knight and Day" Review: Like Jason Bourne, Except Tom Cruise Won't Stop Talking

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

"The A-Team" Review: Two Hours of Shit Blowing Up -- Boringly

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Summer Movie Preview

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Freedom. Adventure. Goats.

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Green Zone and Matt Damon Confirm the Big Lie, Hollywood-style

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

The Spy Next Door Is Immediately Forgettable Family Entertainment

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Che Guevara Ordered His Father's Death, So Gustavo Villoldo Promised Payback

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

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​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Bail Out This Movie

The International's assets are troubled indeed.

Lies We Can Believe In

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

Spy Versus Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

The Revolution is Now

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

The Hottest, Ass-kickin'est Movies of 2007

A look back at the year's best, worst, and most interesting films

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

A Star Is Bourne (Again)

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

Letters for April 5-12, 2007

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

The Big Valley

Twin Peaks: The Second Season, The Natural: Director's Cut, Death of a President, The Good Shepherd

Bring Me The Head Of Che Guevara

Twin Peaks: The Second Season, The Natural: Director's Cut, Death of a President, The Good Shepherd

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

Blood for Oil

Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth

Finding Gary, Part 2

A rogue FBI agent, tons of smuggled drugs, a wife in search of her husband's corpse

Oom Paw Paw

A rogue FBI agent, tons of smuggled drugs, a wife in search of her husband's corpse

Contra Campaign

An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

V Day

An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

Elmore or Less

There's little merit to The Big Bounce

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

There's little merit to The Big Bounce

Letters for July 27, 2003

Who do you trust?

Get Shorty

The lunatic fringe lives, breathes, and flourishes on shortwave radio

Political Therapy

Talking war with dissident Jim Mullins is good for a battle-scarred psyche

Jello Biafra

The Big Ka-Boom, Part One (Alternative Tentacles)

Speak and Suffer

Tim Hunter blows the whistle on U.S. hypocrisy toward Saudi Arabia

Circular Logic

The people watching the airlines should have and could have taken action... but didn't

Smoking Rock

Someone must have been to come up with Bad Company

Nuclear Waste

It's up to Ben Affleck to save the world, and that's The Sum of All Fears

A Family Affair

Wackenhut Corp.'s days as a South Florida firm are over, but its legacy lives on

Admitting Terror

The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

KGB Meets BSO

In the '80s Soviet lawman Emin Gadzhiyev blew the whistle on corrupt colleagues and defected to the United States. Now he's training with the Broward Sheriff's Office. Someone should make a movie about this guy.

KGB Meets BSO

In the '80s Soviet lawman Emin Gadzhiyev blew the whistle on corrupt colleagues and defected to the United States. Now he's training with the Broward Sheriff's Office. Someone should make a movie about this guy.

Secrets and Crimes

Four years after hed been convicted of murder in Belgium, Jean-FranCois Buslik was a pilot and a family man living quietly in North Palm Beach. Then justice came calling.

Best Local Scandal

Stephen Fagan

Is There a Spin-Doctor in the House?

Stephen Fagan