Where are all of the documentaries about the CIA on FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC?
Newsweek | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
CIA director Leon Panetta has ordered an internal inquiry into the agency's handling of a contentious and still highly-classified intelligence program...
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressional aides said Thursday that Democratic leaders are prepared to soften a proposal that more lawmakers be briefed on secre...
Frank Naif | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
Senior intelligence community hacks like Michael Hayden and his peers are responsible for scuttling senior CIA analyst Phil Mudd's nomination to the senior DHS intelligence post.
Keith Thomson | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.
Frank Naif | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The Obama team portrayed Leon Panetta as a no-nonsense Beltway veteran who would 'fix' the CIA. Over the past few weeks, however, he has emerged as an obstacle to real reform and accountability at the CIA.
The Washington Independant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama's ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency...
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
The Democrats have pretty much gotten it: The Panetta point is that Cheney's not just a fearmonger, but something like a short-seller.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
CIA Director Leon Panetta caused a stir this weekend, when New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer quoted him saying former VP Dick Cheney almost seems to want...
James Warren | Posted 07.15.2009 | Media
This may be a golden era of betrayal. Bernie Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Alex Rodriguez and Mel Gibson are among the liars and cheats who've hurt their biggest fans and chums the most.
AP | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism al...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The nation's two intelligence chiefs are locked in a turf battle over overseas posts, forcing National Security Adviser James L. Jo...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Sluggo occasionally gets one over on Spike and gets Nancy back on track.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Earlier this week, the surprising new director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, took a lunch break to talk with the Pacific Council on International Policy.
William Bradley | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
For Dick Cheney, if there's a 1% chance of a terror plot existing, it should be treated as a certainty. It's one thing when that sort of manipulation is used to entertain, and quite another when it's used to govern.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
There is not a day that you wake up, turn on the news and don't hear about the Democrats backtracking, engaging in hypocrisy and appeasing the Republicans, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.15.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency records show CIA officers briefed lawmakers truthfully in 2002 on methods of interrogating te...
Times of London | James Hider in Jerusalem | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
America's spy chief was sent on a secret mission to Israel to warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying the US Admini...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration....
AP | NATASHA METZLER | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday defended before his most skeptical audience his decision to release Bush-era memos outlining inter...
Foreign Policy | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
Former Indiana Congressman Tim Roemer (D-IN) will be nominated to be U.S. ambassador to India, The Cable has learned. The former member of the 9/11 co...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home