ISLAMABAD — Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into it...
ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a ci...
newsweek.com | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The CIA has decisively won a long-running turf fight with the director of national intelligence, the CIA's ostensible boss, over who will be the top U...
Gary Hart | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
NATO has yet to define a 21st century mission. There are new security threats that do not lend themselves to military response and that cannot be addressed either by old alliances or by the US alone.
The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?
Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology
Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology
Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.
AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for ille...
AP | COLLEEN BARRY and VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
MILAN — An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the fi...
Tony Blankley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
The Times published on the front page the name of a purported CIA-paid asset, Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president. This may be the most egregious compromise of a CIA operative in our history.
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...
AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...
David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President ...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: "Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work."
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine.
AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the CIA and has for much of the past eig...
The Hill | Jared Allen | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have concluded that the CIA did not fully inform Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques d...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.20.2009 | World