WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base an...
Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books
In the whole of my experiences with or close to Fidel, this was the most pathetic. Here was a man who knew solitude was an impossibility, yet seemed happy to have the illusion of it.
Adam Hanft | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics
Nine years and billions of dollars after September 11th, we have a database that can't do something as basic as connect a denied visa and a CIA report on the same person.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 12.29.2009 | World
So before airport security screening start to feel like your annual medical check-up and American troops head into Yemen, here are some common sense ideas aimed at preventing anti-American terrorism.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 12.29.2009 | World
Yemen's fate, like Somalia's or Pakistan's, will help determine the future struggle against terrorism. The U.S. cannot afford to ignore Yemen's plight.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government needs to rethink its national security apparatus and its intelligence-gathering mechanisms: We cannot protect America from terrorism using military force.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
The White House this month issued a classified order to resolve mounting frictions between the nation's intelligence director and the CIA over issues ...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 12.28.2009 | World
While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.
John Brown | Posted 12.29.2009 | World
Watching it last Saturday morning, I reflected -- as a former foreign service officer involved in public diplomacy -- about paraplegic Marine Jake Sully's ventures into Pandora.
Roger Warner | Posted 12.23.2009 | World
A tentative deal between the Laotian government, anti-government guerrillas, and expatriated Lao refugees could finally bring an end to a little-known conflict that grew out of the Vietnam War.
AP | LIUDAS DAPKUS | Posted 12.22.2009 | World
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they w...
The Guardian | Declan Walsh | Posted 12.22.2009 | World
American special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Wash...
guardian.co.uk | Ian Cobain | Posted 12.18.2009 | World
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been w...
Times London | Rhys Blakely | Posted 12.17.2009 | World
A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year's attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rog...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.
The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.12.2009 | Comedy
In a new videotape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.
Huff Radio | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics
Obama's muscular moralism? Irreconcilable concepts? A new direction? LRC weighs in on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
AP | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and A...
AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver
DENVER — A Denver lawyer thrust into the international spotlight while representing a Colorado man accused of plotting a terrorist attack is no ...
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 12.07.2009 | World
Redoubling the effort in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater will only indirectly deny terrorists the kind of safe havens they need to plan another 9/11 scale attack.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bol...
Jeff Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic organization said today.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?
Keith Thomson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology
The latest in finding out who's naughty and nice... ...
AP | PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.31.2009 | World