Trump downplays Russian hacking
July 6, 2017
On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump questioned the veracity of American intelligence about foreign meddling in
WikiLeaks CIA hacks: Should we worry?
March 8, 2017
WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents that the anti-secrecy organization said were classified files revealing scores of secrets about CIA hacking tools used to break
Report: Russians will keep hacking
January 7, 2017
The new, declassified report on Russian efforts to influence the presidential election has a troublesome prediction: Russia isn’t done intruding in U.S. politics and policymaking.
Trump disses Russian hacking aid
December 11, 2016
Donald Trump’s presidential transition team on Saturday challenged the veracity of U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia was trying to tip the November election to the
A key figure in the CIA torture debacle
December 10, 2014
Abu Zubaydah was the CIA’s guinea pig. He was the first high-profile al Qaida terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the first
CIA read emails of Senate staff
August 3, 2014
CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a “lack of candor” when interviewed by agency investigators, according to
CIA director changes his tone on Senate spying
August 1, 2014
For months, CIA Director John Brennan stood firm in his insistence that the CIA had little to be ashamed of after searching the computers of
Lots of reason for shame at CIA’s tactics
July 31, 2014
The State Department has endorsed the broad conclusions of a harshly critical Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks,
CIA operatives involved in torture denied report viewing
July 26, 2014
About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decade-old agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would
Did Iraq pullout hurt American spying efforts?
June 26, 2014
When John Maguire was a CIA officer in Beirut in the late 1980s during that country’s bloody civil war, he spent weeks living in safe