The last living words of former President Gerald Ford fingered the CIA in the orchestration a cover-up of Kennedy's assassination. Ford, who died last year, was the longest surviving member of the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. McClellan recounts the 2003 news
A little noticed prohibition in the Democrats' $50 billion Iraq funding bill that passed the House Wednesday would effectively end CIA renditions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui , federal prosecutors revealed in a Nov. 9 court filing that
Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
An Italian judge on Wednesday extended the suspension of the abducation trial of 26 Americans charged in an alleged CIA operation until the country's highest court rules on a government challenge that could scuttle the case. The Constitutional C
Total Intelligence Solutions, has assembled a roster of former spooks -- high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA and defense intelligence -- that mirrors the slate of former military officials who run Blackwater.
60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the US argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained vidoe of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not on
Iran has access to evidence of U.S. support for terrorist groups in the Middle East. Tehran says the rebels are operating in Iraq with U.S. forces present in the country and this shows Washington is refraining from tackling them.
On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But there has been no official accounting of what happened to 30 other "ghost prisoners
As she walks to her table at a Georgetown restaurant, Janine Brookner looks pleasant, harmless, vaguely academic; with her blond bob and cream pantsuit, you'd figure her for a literrature professor. But only until she starts to talk about her lo
The CIA's questioning of fewer than 100 terrorist suspects detainees has yielded about 9,000 reports, showing the success of the interrogation program, according to the head of the agency. The information was obtained using techniques
The FISA Amendments Act, approved by a Senate committee last week, seems to immunize people who cooperated with the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency--and other even more shadowy agencies--that conduct black-bag jobs.
Most people have heard the name Valerie Plame, but almost no one has heard her story -- until now. When her identity was published in a newspaper 4 years ago, she was an undercover agent for the CIA. When the leak traced to the White House
Cheney hand seen behind leaks of 'misleading' stories. Allegations, that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate, causes US intelligence community to reveal they see the Vice President’s hand behind the disinf
CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons." (Deeper and Deeper into the Rabbit
Newly released evidence adds to the theory that MoD scientist Dr David Kelly was murdered and did not commit suicide, an MP has claimed. The penknife Dr Kelly apparently used to slash his wrist did not carry his own fingerprints.
IG means Inspector General. Normally, the IG operates outside the boundaries of political influence and cronyism. This week we learned the CIA Director MIchael Hayden has launched an investigation of the IG. This comes in the wake of the IG
The CIA is investigating the work of the spy agency's own internal inspector general, whose aggressive inquiries into torture allegations have ruffed agency staff, the New York Times reported Friday. Michael Hayden, the director of the CIA, orde
Vigilant Shield, taking place in Oregon, Phoenix, Guam, and perhaps the Philippines next week is not about security. It is an exercise intended to accustom Americans to Federal Fascism. residents of Portland started moving out a while ago. Many ha
An Iraqi court convicted a former aide to Saddam Hussain of crimes against humanity, but turns out he was on the CIA payroll. And the guy who suggested this person to the CIA? Well, it turns out to be the current President of Iraq.
Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug traficking incident in Mexico's Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a du
Firm says Adminstration's handling of video ruined its spying efforts. A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 am on
The CIA is a relatively calm place these days, with its senior officials concentrating more on nailing foregin targets than each other. (Note: read at the bottom about Sen. Richard Shelby, and his attempt to discredit Anthony Lake)
A secret CIA overseas detention program revealed by President George W. Bush last year remains active and has held at least one al Qaeda militant since the, a US official said on Thursday. The official confirmed the detention as the White House skir
After a stalemate of over two years, the Senate passed the 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill Wednesday, with Democrats ceding a key provision regarding pre-war Iraq intelligence that Republicans had decried.
Operation Mockingbird was a CIA operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975.