Bush's CIA Director Hoped For 'Aw, Sh*t!' Moment
WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and...
WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama railed against the intelligence programs implemented under President George W. Bush and...
David Finkle | Posted 08.30.2011
The "problem plays" Shakespeare uncorked in the early 17th century contain enough problems that there's no call for directors and players to add new ones. That, however, is what's transpiring in the Public Theater's summer 2011 Central Park offerings.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman want a faster withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and a growing nu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whi...
wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency, said Thursday that one solution being discussed in government is to s...
SpyTalk | Posted 05.25.2011
CIA drones killed "many Westerners, including some U.S. passport holders" in Pakistan's tribal area during the George W. Bush administration, the new ...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
Last fall, Eric Holder issued a directive that the DEA should respect state medical marijuana laws. But that directive had a lot of wiggle room and as a result the DEA's raids on medical marijuana suppliers continue.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, ...
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 05.25.2011
While increased social media use by the government for enhanced communication is great, monitoring public information that is not authorized for such purposes raises privacy concerns.
newsweek.com | Mark Hosenball | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Examiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Director General Michael Hayden said today that an internal CIA report expected to be ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Strong intelligence tools are necessary to keep us secure. But those tools must be transparent to Congress, subject to legal review from the Executive Branch, and fully consistent with the law.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.
Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 05.25.2011
George W Bush was the laziest coward to ever hold the presidency. Cheney was and is a proactive coward. He will jettison everyone and everything to save his ass.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Not torturing prisoners is one of our nation's proudest traditions, one of the features that define us. Yet, the men who served as CIA Director and Attorney General still believe in these techniques.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden lashed out at the Obama administration on Sunday for releasing memos on interrogation techniques used on detainees,...
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
CIA Director Michael Hayden is taking significant steps to soften critics of the CIA's overclassification and other obfuscations -- and perhaps even to rekindle America's confidence in the Agency.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
with John Brennan out of the picture, a more controversial contender for CIA chief has emerged: As President-elect Barack Obama continues to build hi...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — John Brennan, President-elect Barack Obama's top adviser on intelligence, took his name out of the running Tuesday for any intellig...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 05.25.2011
The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. mission...
ABC | Posted 05.25.2011
Osama bin Laden is alive and "putting a lot of energy into his own security," the director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today. He also ...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation's top two intelligence officers expect to be replaced by President-elect Barack Obama early in his administration, according to senior inte...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's brain trust continues to grow. The president-elect has hired former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn to help shepherd his Pe...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
His latest column shows that while Novak can be exceedingly gracious to people who helped him through his ordeal, he can still be spiteful and deceptive when it comes to those he doesn't like.
HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 05.18.2012