Under language approved last week in the fiscal 2010 Intelligence
Authorization Act, the House panel proposed doing away with provisions
that allowed a president to limit disclosure of sensitive intelligence
activities to the "Gang of Eight," the term used to identify the House
speaker and minority leader, Senate majority and minority leaders, and
the chairmen and ranking minority members of the House and Senate
intelligence panels.
An airstrike believed to have been carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral for a Taliban fighter in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said.
Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you -- as long as you can pass a lie dectector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet. The CIA has been advertising for recruits and will be holding
Current and former intellegence officials tell ABC news that the CIA has recieved secret presedential approvel to mount a black or covert operation to destabilize
the Iranian region and is currently underway.
The Obama administration has proposed the creation of an intelligence
officer training program in colleges and universities that would
function much like the Reserve Officers' Training Corps run by the
military services. The idea is to create a stream "of first- and
second-generation Americans, who already have critical language and
cultural knowledge, and prepare them for careers in the intelligence
agencies," according to a description sent to Congress by Director of
National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair.
Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency (NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail communications and telephone calls made by Americans. The new revelations follow the disclosure in April that the NSA’s monitoring of domestic e-mail traffic broke the law in 2008 and 2009.
The CIA is pushing the Obama administration to maintain the secrecy of significant portions of a comprehensive internal account of the agency's interrogation program, according to two intelligence officials. The officials say the CIA is urging
The CIA is adopting Web 2.0
tools such as blogs and collaborative wikis, but not without a struggle
in an agency with an ingrained culture of secrecy, CIA officers said
Friday.
"We're still kind of in this early adoptive stage," said Sean
Dennehy, a CIA analyst and self-described "evangelist" for
Intellipedia, the US intelligence community's version of the popular
user-curated online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
"There's a lot of cultural issues we have to encounter with bringing
this kind of open source ethos into the intelligence community,"
Dennehy said during a panel discussion organized by the Washington
office of Internet giant Google.
The Central Intelligence Agency analyst recalled Mahatma Gandhi's
quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight
you, then you win."
CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Thursday the U.S. intelligence agency
believes al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan and
hopes joint operations with Pakistani forces will find him.
Asked whether he was sure that bin Laden was in Pakistan, Panetta told
reporters: "The last information we had, that's still the case."
John Yoo, the former Deputy Attorney General at the agency’s Office of
Legal Counsel, who drafted the infamous “torture memos” that gave
former President George W. Bush and CIA interrogators the legal cover
they needed to torture suspected terrorist detainees, offered some
clues behind the genesis of the August 2002 legal opinions.
CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge that
releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would
gravely damage national security.
Arguing release of agency cables describing tough
interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy
far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work.
President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists.
Philip
Mudd was scheduled to appear next week before senators considering his
nomination as undersecretary of intelligence and analysis. He notified
the White House on Friday that he was withdrawing his name because he
did not want to be a distraction.
The Obama administration's pick for a top intelligence post had direct knowledge of the CIA's harsh interrogation program. Philip Mudd, nominated to be under secretary of intelligence and analysis at the Homeland Security Department.
The CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret electronic transmitters to help target and kill al-Qaida leaders in the north-western tribal belt, in a tactic that could aid Pakistan's army as it takes the battle against extremism to the Taliban heartland.
Medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah, the al-Qaida operative who was, according to government reports, subjected to the near-drowning at least 83 times
The nation's two intelligence chiefs are locked in a turf battle over overseas posts, forcing National Security Adviser James L. Jones to mediate, according to current and former government officials.
The same week the President was arguing for more transparency in government and railing against the idea of protecting information “merely because it reveals the violation of a law or embarrasses the government” he was invoking it again.
Der Spiegel reports of 'new' evidence of a torture prison housed at the Polish military airbase of Stare Kiejkuty. It's certainly an important revelation, and it was just as important in March 2007 when Raw Story originally identified Sta
The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified
Five previously unacknowledged secret memos revealing new information about the Bush administration's interrogation policies remain hidden in government file cabinets, a Senate report disclosed Wednesday.
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials.
Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by one arm from a helicopter while enemy soldiers took aim below. Boecker had spent the longest night of his life
The Central Intelligence Agency said it would decommission the secret overseas prisons where it subjected Al Qaeda prisoners to brutal interrogation methods, bringing to a symbolic close the most controversial counterterrorism program of the Bush adm
Download the text of the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by The International Committee of the Red Cross, along with the cover letter that accompanied it when it was transmitted to the US gover
[lets get Obama out of the news] As a novice CIA case officer in the Middle East, Andrew Warren quickly learned the value of sex in recruiting spies. Colleagues say that he made an early habit of taking informants to strip clubs, and that he later be
The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the r
In a decision that seriously weakened the most high-profile prosecution in Europe involving the seizure of terrorism suspects, Italy’s highest court ruled Italian prosecutors violated state secrecy in their case against American and Italian intellige
A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration's global war on terro
The CIA. itself a ruthless, terrorist organization inspires terrorism in response. In some cases, notably the CIA and al Qaeda, the relationship between the CIA and terrorism is symbiotic. The CIA has perpetrated an “American Holocaust”,
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