They actually turned up in Terry Gilliam's Brazil screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard & Charles McKeown.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
The CIA videotaped its interrogations of terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public a...
AP | PAMELA HESS and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
House and Senate negotiators working on an intelligence bill have agreed to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which woul...
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.05.2007 | Home
Who knew? Forget about the War On Terrorism. Now it's all about the CIA "war" on the Bush administration. If we don't have the Iranian Mullahs to kick around anymore, let's blame it all on the Boys from Langley.
Bob Franken | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
There is only one conclusion to draw: Iran is probably just days away from testing its own fully developed nuke.
Sunday Times of London (U.K.) | Stephen Grey | Posted 11.25.2007 | Home
THE secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British c...
Rebekah Diller and Jonathan Hafetz | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
Habeas corpus is just one of the great American traditions that Bruce Springsteen thinks are in danger.
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the cas...
Gareth Porter | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
The similarities between Cheney's efforts to cook the intelligence on Iraq and on Iran are worth noting, but so are the differences.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
To Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Schumer; When, in the future, you retire from the Senate and sit down to write your memoirs, I predict...
Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics
First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence. The Prince Group, the holding company...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
Since this column has not been afraid to coin new terms, I submit for the blogosphere's approval the Bush Doublethink Corollary to Godwin's Law: "Stat...
Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 10.27.2007 | Politics
On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guanta...
Valerie Plame Wilson | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics
There has been an increasing trend to allow politics to spill over into the world of intelligence and I believe that it degrades the intelligence mission, its product, and is detrimental to our national security.
Valerie Plame Wilson | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
The core mission of the CIA is to provide unvarnished intelligence of national security import to policy makers. General Hayden casts the role of the CIA in paramilitary terms.
Charlie Rose | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Gen. Michael Hayden talked about how the United States is in a state of war today, and explained how the CIA is vital in the battle -- both day to day and for the long-term war of ideas.
Jefferson Morley | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
One of the strongest open government measures ever enacted, the future of the JFK Assassination Records Act is now in question as the CIA seeks judicial permission to defy its provisions.
The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the...
Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 10.11.2007 | Home
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has mounted a highly unusual challenge to the agency's chief watchdog, ordering an internal investigation of an inspect...
Milt Bearden | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
In the end, it will be the Central Intelligence Agency that will be hung out to dry for torture allegations, both real or manufactured. Everybody else in the government will walk.
Associated Press | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.09.2007 | Home
The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administra...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
Columnist Robert Novak said Saturday Ambassador Joe Wilson did not forcefully object to the naming of his CIA operative wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, wh...
KPIX - CBS 5 San Francisco | Frank Viviano | Posted 10.05.2007 | Home
Where does the buck stop? It�s a question that Washington has ignored through a long succession of scandals in Iraq, while senior offficials plead i...
Peter Smith | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
Evidently, the government of the United Sates of America - your government and my government - has been torturing human beings for years.
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN | Posted 10.03.2007 | Home
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abando...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his...
Joe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential...
Calm yourselves, mes amis! Yes, yes, I understand how exciting all this veep stuff...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
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LOS ANGELES -- As founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" franchise, Joe Francis has...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
MELBOURNE, Fla. — As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
Trey Ellis | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics