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Molly O'Toole

Sexual Assault Victims Freed From Oppressive Disclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Molly O'Toole | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics

Sexual assault victims will no longer have to disclose related counseling on applications for national security clearance, National Intelligence Direc...

Chuck Hagel for DOD

Brent Budowsky | Posted 02.26.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense would bring immense confidence in the capitals of America's allies around the world, and great enthusiasm from veterans and military families throughout America who know him well, and trust him greatly.

Intelligence Chief Uses Unreliable Lie Detector Technology to Plug Media Leaks

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 08.29.2012 | Politics
Project On Government Oversight

This week, the nation's top intelligence official announced that the government is expanding its use of the polygraph to expose federal employees. The testing could put intelligence workers at risk of being falsely stigmatized.

Andrea Stone

Intel Director Seeks Leaks With Lie Detector Test

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 06.25.2012 | Politics

The nation's top intelligence official, acting in the wake of a series of revelations about secret national security programs, announced Monday the st...

Andrea Stone

Intelligence 'Black Budget' Cost Taxpayers $54.6 Billion in 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.28.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Congress appropriated a whopping $54.6 billion for classified intelligence operations in 2011, an increase over the previous two years. ...

9/11 Reflections on Leadership

Tom Fox | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics
Tom Fox

This tragic event changed many lives, altered our nation's history and transformed government through two of the most consequential reorganizations in decades.

Hayley Miller

4.2 Million Have Access To Classified Information

HuffingtonPost.com | Hayley Miller | Posted 11.20.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- More than 4.2 million people have access to classified government information, with more than 1 million holding top secret clearances. T...

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

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 11.13.2011 | World

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

Declaring War on Cyber Metaphors

Aki Peritz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Aki Peritz

Cyberspace is "not a war zone." Scripting a cinematic showdown, where a digital Wyatt Earp loads his pistol with ones and zeroes and blows away the bad guys at the Cyber OK Corral, is terribly misleading.

Congress Receives Misleading Report About Guantanamo 'Recidivism'

Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Nancy Talanian

The report's failure to distinguish between recidivists and converts prevents Congress from acknowledging the effects of wrongful detention and torture at Guantánamo.

The President's Daily Map

Christopher Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Christopher Tucker

It is time that we take advantage of new means of communication within the national security community, take steps to launch the President's Map, and move beyond the limitations of the President's Daily Brief.

Nine Years After 9/11: Keeping America Safe

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

The 9/11 attack revealed structural flaws in the US intelligence community that were addressed in the intelligence reform and terrorist prevention act of 2004. How are we doing?

READ THE MEMO: Intelligence Chief Warns Spy Community To Stop 'Blabbing Secrets'

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In a blunt memo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admonishes intelligence community personnel to stop "blabbing secrets" and said he is...

New Spy Chief Tells Agents They Should Be Like His Grandchildren, 'Seen But Not Heard'

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The director of national intelligence is telling his people to zip it, after a string of recent leaks to the media. In a memo obta...

Retired Air Force Officer Confirmed As Director Of National Intelligence

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Senate late Thursday confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper as the next director of national intelligence, votin...

James Clapper Named As New Intelligence Chief

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — He's the right guy to ride herd over America's intelligence operations. Or he's a good guy, but the wrong one for that tough job. ...

Only Obama Can Manage the Iran Situation

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Coleen Rowley

There may be an impending foreign policy catastrophe with Iran, on which President Obama is not getting good advice from his closed circle of advisers.

Dennis Blair, Resigning Director Of National Intelligence, Knew His Days Were Numbered

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — For months, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has been a dead man walking – and he knew it. So constant and vicious...

Intelligence Director Nominee Vows To Rein In Disparate Agencies, Downplays Military Background

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Pledging to increase trust with Congress, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper said Tuesday he would be candid with lawmaker...

Support a Patriot: Confirm Jim Clapper

Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Morris Davis

I spent my entire adult life serving as a military officer where I was precluded from direct involvement in partisan political activity. I retired fr...

One "Spy Czar" Too Many?

Richard H. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard H. Smith

Nearly as inevitable as Death and Taxes is the perpetuation of a Government mistake - especially when that mistake is an ill-conceived bureaucracy con...

Senators Push Leon Panetta Over James Clapper For White House Intelligence Job

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In this era of hyper partisanship in Congress, there's one thing leading Democrats and Republicans can agree on: They want Leon Panetta, not James Cla...

Intelligence Community Must Build Greater Trust

Pete Contostavlos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Pete Contostavlos

We must keep the trust of intelligence professionals and war fighters on the front lines in order to provide timely, accurate and relevant information to policymakers and those who need it.

Dennis Blair: U.S. Can Kill Suspected American Terrorists Abroad

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair offered confirmation on Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence community is authorized to assassinate Ame...

Botched Attack Revives Scrutiny Of Bush Intelligence Reforms

The Washington Post | Karen DeYong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The failure of U.S. authorities to detect a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has reignited long-simmering concerns that intelligence refo...