Let's Be Intelligent About Social Media Intelligence
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.
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.
Frank Naif | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Before Eric Holder announced his preliminary probe, and even before Barack Obama promised an end to torture and detention, morale at CIA was sagging.
Examiner | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
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 08.31.2009 | Politics
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 08.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration's post-9/11 surveillance...
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.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.
Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy
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 05.22.2009 | Politics
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 05.20.2009 | Politics
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden lashed out at the Obama administration on Sunday for releasing memos on interrogation techniques used on detainees,...
Frank Naif | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
The CIA's spokesman came down out of his tree to let us know the CIA is not happy that everyone thinks it's an agency that could use some fixing by the likes of Leon Panetta.
Keith Thomson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
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 01.09.2009 | Politics
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 12.26.2008 | Politics
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 12.21.2008 | Politics
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 12.14.2008 | Politics
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 12.13.2008 | Politics
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 12.12.2008 | Politics
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 10.09.2008 | Media
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.
Bernard I. Finel | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Some say we are making great progress in the "war on terror" -- there has been some decline in the number of casualties and there is increasing debate within jihadist circles over the legitimacy of attacks.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
We gave this particular moment some special attention on our Sunday Morning Liveblog today, but it deserves some special attention and scrutiny. We'r...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Debate over waterboarding flared Thursday on Capitol Hill, with the CIA director raising doubts about whether it's currently legal ...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ap...
AFP | Olivier Knox | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The White House, under mounting pressure in the CIA's destruction of terrorism suspect interrogation videotapes, made an unusually aggressive push Wed...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The White House argues that the newspaper article implies that "there is an effort to mislead in this matter," adding that such a conclusion is "perni...
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media