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Ryan J. Reilly

CIA Doesn't Have To Release Dead Osama Bin Laden Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The CIA doesn't have to release photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse being buried at sea, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Judici...

Top Female Spy Passed Over For Big CIA Job

AP | By ADAM GOLDMAN and KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed...

CIA Shake-Up Passes Over Officer Tied To Interrogation Program

The Washington Post | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

A CIA officer who was the first woman to lead the agency’s clandestine service, but was also closely tied to the agency’s interrogation program, w...

Obama Administration Keeps Report On Secret Terms

Salon | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

Much of what you’ve been told (or seen in movies) about George W. Bush’s supposedly effective torture program is false and overhyped. At least, th...

Report: CIA Dictated 'Zero Dark Thirty' Changes

Gawker | Posted 05.06.2013 | Entertainment

Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual ki...

CIA Has Delivered Cash To Afghan Leader For More Than A Decade

The New York Times | Posted 04.28.2013 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have ...

Origins Of Not-So-Secret Drone War Examined

New York Times | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics

Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed....

Ryan J. Reilly

Rep. Mike Rogers Cautions Against Nixing CIA's Drones Role

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, voiced concerns on Sunday about the government's reported plan...

A16: Let Sarah Knuckey and James Cavallaro Testify About the Drone Strikes

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.19.2013 | World
Robert Naiman

Before this year -- before President Obama nominated John Brennan to head the CIA -- there was virtually no public Congressional discussion of the drone strike policy at all.

CIA's Paranoid Response on Drones

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 05.19.2013 | Politics
Bennett L. Gershman

The CIA's defense of an indefensible position on secrecy suggests that it believes secrecy trumps all other values, even a court's common sense.

New Report Reveals Shocking Details About Blackwater's CIA Ties

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

Last month a three-year-long federal prosecution of Blackwater collapsed. The government's 15-felony indictment--on such charges as conspiring to hide...

Ryan J. Reilly

CIA Contractors Settle Hooters Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Three companies have agreed to pay the government $3 million for showering Central Intelligence Agency employees with tickets to sportin...

Big Day For Obama's CIA Director Nominee

Posted 05.05.2013 | Politics

By RICHARD LARDNER, The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on President Barack Obama's pick to l...

Could We Move Dianne Feinstein on CIA Oversight?

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.21.2013 | World
Robert Naiman

What if we could get a bunch of people in California to call one of Dianne Feinstein's California offices during the recess, urging her to publicly commit to holding a public hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on CIA drone strikes?

Ryan J. Reilly

DOJ: John Brennan Didn't Officially Disclose CIA Drones Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, didn't officially acknowledge the CIA'...

Could the Senate Intelligence Committee Do Oversight of CIA Drone Strikes?

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Robert Naiman

The question of civilian casualties is crucial to whether the current drone strike policy is a policy that the public would support. Why don't we ask the Senate Intelligence Committee to do its job of overseeing the CIA?

Brennan Needs to Correct the Record on Drones

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

Historically, it's been impossible to get the agency to say anything about its drone program or even its interpretation of the laws it's required to follow. Would Brennan support a more open flow of information about how the CIA is carrying out targeted killings, if it continues to do so?

Obama Announces Brennan As CIA Director Pick

Posted 01.11.2013 | Politics

President Obama has nominated counterterrorism adviser John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Brennan, a 25-year veteran of ...

John Brennan To Be Nominated As CIA Director

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 03.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former sen...

"Homeland" Season 3: Carrie, Call Your Lawyer

David Laufman | Posted 03.03.2013 | Entertainment
David Laufman

According to bootleg scripts for the upcoming season, the White House will express its strong preference that all investigative activity be centralized under the umbrella of the Commission. Consequently, other investigative bodies will, naturally, insist on doing their own thing.

Spy Agencies Facing Big Budget Cuts

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 01.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Congress has drastically trimmed the budget for U.S. spies and satellites for 2013, though not quite as deeply as the White House wanted...

Senate Benghazi Report Faults State Department, Intelligence

Reuters | Posted 03.02.2013 | Politics

* Intelligence agencies lacked focus on Libya extremists * State Department should not have waited for warnings By Tabas...

CIA Group Emerges From Shadows After Incidents In Libya, Pakistan

The Washington Post | Greg Miller and Julie Tate | Posted 12.27.2012 | World

The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability...

'Green News Report' - November 20, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.20.2013 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. Welcome ...

The Real Scandal Surrounding the Petraeus Resignation

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
Rep. Dennis Kucinich

The FBI, if they thought they had a reason, could find out where you are and read your email, with relatively little oversight. Don't think they can? This is what happened to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, an active four star general and two women.