CIA officials paid Polish intelligence $15 million for use of secret prison, says Washington Post
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FBI Burglars Come Forward After 43 Years Amid New Secrecy Debate
Activists who leaked data in 1971 call for leniency for Edward Snowden
Clergy Urge Senate Intelligence Committee to Declassify CIA Interrogation Report
The 6,000-page report, which documents use of torture, was approved last year, but has yet to be made public
Should the AP And Washington Post Have Published Their Scoop On The CIA?
Weighing the value of public interest against the safety of a missing American in a story of rogue spying.
NSA Snoops Online Video Games
Intelligence agencies are secretly infiltrating online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life
Supreme Court Declines to Stop NSA Surveillance
The high court rejected a privacy group petition for a review of the programs
Report: CIA Drawn Into Widening Domestic Surveillance Debate
New revelations have surfaced that the intelligence agency is secretly collecting bulk records of Americans’ money transfers
C.I.A. Will Call Back Thousands of Furloughed Employees
Senior lawmakers complained that intelligence employees were deemed “nonessential”
Why John Brennan’s Confirmation Hearing May Not Be High Drama
The most anticipated confirmation hearing in recent memory may end up being among the least satisfying
The Silly Conservative Attacks on John Brennan
The conservative case against Obama’s CIA nominee seems to be that the man is somehow soft on terrorism.
Shorter Version: “No.”
At a Senate confirmation hearing for his new gig atop the CIA, David Petraeus was asked Thursday if he supported President Obama’s drawdown timetable for Afghanistan. Mark Benjamin parses the thicket of words and argues that Petraeus’ windiness says everything you need to know about the decorated general’s opinion.
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Enhanced Baloney
I am sitting here watching Congressman Peter King lie through his teeth on CNN about the role of torture in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. King is insisting that the initial information about the Bin Laden couriers …
Ex-CIA Counterterror Chief: ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ Led U.S. to bin Laden
A former head of counterterrorism at the CIA, who was investigated last year by the Justice Department for the destruction of videos showing senior al-Qaeda officials being interrogated, says the harsh questioning of terrorism …