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... ...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.28.2009 | Books
The Cold War made for strange partners -- including the CIA and a well-known magician named John Mulholland. In 1953, Mulholland was hired by the C.I....
Posted 11.24.2009 | Books
If you have ever wanted to learn how to slink around unnoticed and send hidden signals like a real CIA agent during the Cold War, then you are in luck...
William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.
The Nation | Jeremy Scahill | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite di...
Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in...
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 ...
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 12.07.2009 | World