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Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government, where she specialized in Middle Eastern political and media analysis. She is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Mistake in Shutting Down a US News Source
U.S. intelligence, best known for collecting information about people including Americans, did have one agency that gave the public access to its translations of foreign news articles – until this year when the sharing was shut down, as ex-intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray explains.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 3, 2013 US Shutting Down a Key News Source
The U.S. intelligence community vacuums up vast amounts of data, but it has one agency, World News Connection, that gives back information to the public -- except that the service is getting shut down at year's end. That has dark implications for the public's right to know, not to mention diminished international understanding and increased reliance on non-primary sources of information.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Why Snowden's Fate Matters
There's an old saying that a reporter is only as good as his sources, meaning that there's a need for people inside government who see wrongdoing to speak up. It is also a test of a democratic Republic whether truth-tellers like Edward Snowden are appreciated or persecuted.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Why Snowden's Fate Matters
There's an old saying that a reporter is only as good as his sources, meaning that there's a need for people inside government who see wrongdoing to speak up. It is also a test of a democratic Republic whether truth-tellers like Edward Snowden are appreciated or persecuted, ex-intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray notes.