Central Intelligence Agency

Bush's CIA Director Hoped For 'Aw, Sh*t!' Moment

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: James Mann, The Obamians, Video, Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, Cia, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Enhanced Interrogations, CIA Torture, Obama Torture, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and...

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Former CIA Officer: Clinton Wouldn't Authorize Bin Laden Kill

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Video, Bill Clinton Bin Laden, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Hank Crumpton, Hank Crumpton Cia, Clinton, Hank Crumpton Bin Laden, Bill Clinton Osama Bin Laden, Clinton Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Hank Crumpton, a former CIA officer and top counterterrorism official, said in a recent interview that President Bill Clinton's White House missed a g...

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CIA, Not TSA, Is Key To Foiling Airplane Bomb Plots, Experts Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Underwear Bomber, Yemen, Aqap, Tsa, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, John Brennan, Al Qaeda Bomb Plot, Ibrahim Al-Asiri, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The foiling of an al Qaeda plot to place an underwear bomber on a U.S.-bound airliner has focused attention on whether the more sophisti...

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The Life And Death Of The First Slain Female CIA Agent

The Washington Post | Edward Cody May 6, 2012 | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Spies, Barbara Robbins Dead, Central Intelligence Agency, Barbara Robbins, Cia, Intelligence Agencies, Espionage, Politics News

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for emplo...

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NYPD Surveillance Revisited

James Zogby | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Bill of Rights, Arabs, Central Intelligence Agency, Nypd, Ethnic Profiling, Surveillance, Muslims, Nypd Spying, Civil Rights, New York, Politics News

Where do we draw the line that separates the rights of persons from the over-reach of law enforcement. When do we conclude that the NYPD crossed the line and violated constitutionally protected freedoms and civil rights?

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CIA Murdered JFK Mistress, New Book Claims

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Conspiracy Theories, Video, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, JFK Assassination, Books, Washington DC, CIA LSD, Jackie Kennedy, Jfk Mistress, Jfk, Lsd, Mary Pinchot Meyer, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Conspiracy theorists who question President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have, over the years, become obsessed with another m...

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CIA Seeks To Expand Covert Drone Campaign

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Yemen, Drone Program, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Drone Warfare, Drone Wars, Yemen Drones, World News

The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know t...

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In Defense of Jihadist Internet Forums

Aki Peritz | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Jihadists, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Counterterrorism, National Security, Terrorism, Cybersecurity, Islamic Extremists, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Defacing and darkening extremist websites is immensely satisfying. However, the U.S. and others should not keep reminding terrorists and their followers that they are being monitored online.

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America's Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy

William Astore | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: National Security Agency, National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Nsa, Intelligence Community, National Security, Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/11, Malcolm Gladwell, Politics News

Lost is the lesson of 9/11: We didn't have a collection problem but a connection one. Yet our response has largely been not to find better ways of connecting the dots, but rather simply to collect more dots.

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Data Mining You

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Data Mining, Central Intelligence Agency, Obama Internet, Obama CIA, Internet Safety, Internet Security, Government Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism, Internet Privacy, Online Privacy, Counterterrorism Guidelines, Obama Counterterrorism, Politics News

In these last years, while so many Americans were foreclosed upon or had their homes go "underwater" and the construction industry went to hell, the intelligence housing bubble just continued to grow.

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Poland Breaks Silence On Secret CIA Prison

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: George Bush, Harsh Interrogation Tactics, Video, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Poland Secret Prison, Poland, Waterboarding, Cia Secret Prison, Torture, World News

WARSAW, Poland — For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crack...

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Iran: Smoke, Mirrors and the Rest

Imogen Lloyd Webber | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: History, Iran, President Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran Diplomacy, Iran War Hype, Barack Obama Iran, U.S. Iran Hype, Iran War Diplomacy, Iran Intelligence, Media News

The only certainty we have in the public discourse in regards to Iran is that we are dealing with smoke and mirrors with every player.

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Why Pakistanis Don't Trust America

Saleem H. Ali | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, Kashmir Earthquake, US-Pakistan Relations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Pakistan Vaccine, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, Raymond Davis, War on Terror, Polio Pakistan, Counterterrorism, Hepatitis, World News

Most Pakistani-Americans, including myself, are relieved that bin Laden is no longer able to plan acts of terrorism. However, what is missing from this narrative is the method used by the CIA to glean the information about his whereabouts.

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U.S. Drones Provoke Outrage in Iraq

The New York Times | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq, Ali Al-Mosawi, Falih Al-Fayadh, State Department, Iraq Drones, Nuri Kamal Al-Maliki, World News

A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the Unit...

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Arrest of Ex-CIA Official For Torture Leaks Called Unjust

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Video, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leak, Waterboarding, Espionage, John Kiriakou Leaks, John Kiriakou, Torture, Politics News

Human rights and open government advocates on Tuesday harshly criticized the Obama administration over the criminal charges brought against an ex-CIA ...

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Iran Sentences American To Death For Spying

Reuters | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Iran Revolutionary Court, Central Intelligence Agency, Amir Mirza Hekmati, Reuters, Iran, World News

* Death sentence likely to worsen U.S.-Iran tensions * Americans deny Hekmati a spy, parents plea for mercy * Friction i...

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CIA Reportedly Suspends Drone Attacks In Pakistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Drone Attacks, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Drone Strikes, Drones, Al Qaeda, World News

Reporting from Washington-- In an effort to mend badly frayed relations with Pakistan, the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of...

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A War We Never Should Have Waged

Joe Cirincione | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iraq Veterans, Saddam Hussein, Central Intelligence Agency, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq, Neoconservatives, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

The Iraq War is the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It cost our nation $1 trillion, the lives of thousands of our finest warriors, an...

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WATCH: A Look At The CIA's Secret Romanian Prison

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, 9/11, Romania Cia Prison, Black Sites, Al Qaeda, September 11, Bucharest-Romania, Video, Bright Light, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, CIA Black Sites, Romania, Guantanamo Bay, Bucharest, September 11th, CIA Prisons, Cuba, World News

WASHINGTON — One of the CIA's most important secrets in the war on terrorism was hiding in plain sight, on a leafy residential street along a bu...

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Drone That Crashed Inside Iran Was Part Of CIA Surveillance Mission, Say U.S. Officials

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Video, Central Intelligence Agency, Shindad, Cia, Stealth-Drones, Afghanistan, Iran, Iran-Drone, Drones, Iran Drone Crash, Osama Bin Laden, Shindad Afghanistan, World News

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say a drone that crashed inside Iran over the weekend was one of a fleet of stealth aircraft that have spied on Iran...

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Former CIA Director's Death Raises Questions, Divides Family

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Donald Rumsfeld, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Carl Colby, Soldiers, Video, Cia, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, William Colby, Nato, Vietnam War, Phoenix Program, Counterinsurgency, Armchair Detective, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new film on the life and death of master spy and former CIA director William E. Colby, created by his son, raises the question of whet...

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CIA Marks Death Of Spy With A Rare Request

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Johnny Michael Spann, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, War in Afghanistan, Afghan War, Mike Spann, CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, Shannon Spann, Memorial, Politics News

WASHINGTON — CIA officers are asking people to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the first American killed in the Afghan war by donating...

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CIA Spies Caught, Fear Execution In Middle East

ABC News | MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS (@Brianross) | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: u.s. Intelligence, Lebanon, Video, Central Intelligence Agency, u.s. Spies Caught Lebanon, Middle East, Islamic Radicalism, Hezbollah, u.s Spies, Terrorist Groups, Iran, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, World News

In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and th...

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Intelligence Debacle: Terrorist Group Captures CIA Infiltrators

AP | By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: u.s. Intelligence, Lebanon, Video, Central Intelligence Agency, u.s. Spies Caught Lebanon, Middle East, Islamic Radicalism, Hezbollah, u.s Spies, Terrorist Groups, Iran, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, World News

WASHINGTON -- Hezbollah has partially unraveled the CIA's spy network in Lebanon, severely damaging the intelligence agency's ability to gather vital ...

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Top U.S. Intelligence Officials: Al Qaeda Weaker, But Far From Done

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Mike Rogers, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Dianne Feinstein, Drone Strikes, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

WASHINGTON — America's top two intelligence officials said Tuesday that al-Qaida is weaker and U.S. intelligence agencies are smarter since the ...

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