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CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.
The austere building stands in the middle of a remote, thick forest surrounded by a high fence and numerous surveillance cameras.
There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.
A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights.
The United States expressed disappointment over an Italian court's conviction of 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street.
The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping.
An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA for much of the past eight years.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the CIA and has for much of the past eight years, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
A Lithuanian lawmaker says there is no evidence that U.S. airplanes with al-Qaida suspects ever landed in the Baltic country.
Lawyers for two high-ranking former CIA operatives in Italy charged in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric argued on Wednesday that their clients should be granted diplomatic immunity.
An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped from a Milan street in 2003 as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program on Wednesday asked for euro10 million (nearly $15 million) in damages from the American and Italian defendants charged in his abduction.
Recently released CIA files from the mid-1960s show Cuban exile and accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles informed on violent Miami-based efforts to attack Fidel Castro's fledgling Cuban government even as he was deeply involved in helping them.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.
An Italian prosecutor in the first trial anywhere scrutinizing the CIA's extraordinary renditions asked a Milan court on Wednesday to sentence 26 Americans to jail terms ranging from 10 to 13 years for the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect.
The kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric damaged the fight against terrorism, prosecutors said Wednesday during closing arguments in the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians charged with orchestrating a CIA-led abduction.
Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday.
President Barack Obama says he has no plans to ask the Justice Department to end its criminal investigation into the harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the Bush administration.
CIA Director Leon Panetta says Afghan President Hamid Karzai appears to have won re-election despite charges of fraud and corruption in the vote.
Seven former CIA directors who served both Republican and Democratic presidents have asked President Barack Obama to end the Justice Department's criminal probe into the harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.
The director of the CIA beseeched Arab-American and Muslim leaders Wednesday to join efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.
A federal appeals court has put a lawsuit against the CIA on hold temporarily, disagreeing with a lower court judge who claimed the agency was hiding behind dubious national security arguments to shield itself from potential embarrassment.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency's past missteps, stoking questions about the ultimate bureaucratic insider's future at a time when his agency is under intense public scrutiny.
Emptywheel » White House to Restore Emails from Plame Cover-Up PeriodThat list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working on a cover story in Jackson Hole.
The Real TerroristSome times the hunter becomes the hunt and the gunner himself becomes a target. A few weeks back an international conference on terrorism was organized at Vigyan Bhavan, India. Most of the speakers were well known scholars and lawyers from all over the world.
The American Deception In Afghanistan Our intelligence estimates that Al Qaeda is no longer a threat in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are gone. There are no terrorists for the Taliban to protect, no threat to America from the region and no reason for us to be fighting.
How safe are we?Are we still reactive and not proactive? These examples will make you think!
Eben Ray: We're going to talk about another fraud of galactic order. Ah, William Lyne is here. Ah, he is a gentleman that has, ah, been there and done that. He's been within the military-industrial complex. He's been within the intelligence complex.
Iranian Scientist Who Vanished 'Gave Nuclear Secrets' to UN Inspectors Sent to Qom Site"Shahram Amiri briefed United Nations nuclear monitors in a clandestine meeting at Frankfurt airport just hours before they flew to Iran to inspect a hidden uranium enrichment plant, according to French intelligence sources."
CIA tears up Blackwater contractThe US Central Intelligence Agency has cancelled a contract with a security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on CIA drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported.
U.S. Military Joins CIA's Drone War in PakistanThe headquarters for the American military's air war in Central Asia and the Middle East is located in a converted medical warehouse on an undisclosed base in a country the U.S. Air Force would rather not name.
C.I.A. Said to End Blackwater ContractWASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan.
Blackwater 'became an extension' of the CIA: reportThe role of Blackwater employees in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was so central to the US's efforts that the lines between the controversial security contractor, the CIA and the military were effectively "blurred," says a report in the New York Times.
Time to Give Up the Ghost on bin LadenThis week the Obama Administration made an unusual admission: It doesn't have a clue as to where Osama bin Laden is. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said there hasn't been good intelligence on bin Laden for years.
Blackwater Guards Tied to Covert Raids by the C.I.A. Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to forme …
Gossiping taxi driver source of Iraq 45-minute WMD claimAn Iraqi taxi driver who overheard two military commanders talking about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was allegedly the "intelligence sub-source" quoted in the Government's dossier to prove that chemical missiles could be fired in 45 minutes, according to a report b …
Osama bin Laden – a myth or realityIt may be recalled that when the US and its allies decided to invade Afghanistan in October 2001 on a flimsy excuse of getting hold of Osama bin Laden and disrupting and dismantling Al-Qaeda to avenge terrorist attacks allegedly masterminded by Osama, in that timeframe Al-Qaeda …
OSAMA'S GHOST: Whereabouts of Osama DetectedSo far Osama bin Laden has continously been used by the US and some western countries as a scapegoat to malign Pakistan which is their target for 'de-nuclearisation.' Sometimes, bogey of Bin Laden is raised by their rulers to achieve their goals of external policy, and sometimes …
Tribal Areas & AfghanistanPakistani leaders are serious about wiping out militancy in the northwest, especially in the Waziristan; the Taliban took over in the past two years.
DAWN.COM | World | Rich man's terroristIf it had not been for a sudden family emergency, Erik Prince, the CEO of Blackwater, now renamed Xe, would have possibly been killed in the terrorist attack on the Islamabad Marriott in September 2008.
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, SpyErik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A.
TSA Leaks Own Sensitive Airport Screening Manual Who needs anonymous sources when the government is perfectly capable of leaking its own secrets?
Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12MULTAN, Pakistan – A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country.
New book - 'Family of Secrets'- reveals the Bush family's dirty little secrets Russ Baker writes about the connections between the Bush family and the intelligence community, as well as startling evidence that shed new light on the JFK assassination and Watergate. According to his research, George H.W.
"So Where' That OPR Report?" -- Holder Reneges on Report Over Torture Apologists?Less than two weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder testified that the long-awaited report on the ethics of Bush-era Justice Department lawyers who sanctioned torture and other abuses would be released by the end of November. So where is it?
CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed Shortly After News Reports on CIA Black Sites and Interrogation MethodsAlthough the communications remain classified, the dates and summaries of their content provided by the government reveals that a request to destroy the 92 tapes were made just days after The Washington Post reported on the existence of secret overseas CIA prisons known as "b …
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself. With the collapse of the banking and financial system, including the failures of the nation's health care system, one might conclude that this old adage also applies to businesses and corporations.
White House Approves Expansion of CIA's Drone Program in PakistanThe White House has approved an expansion of the CIA's drone program in Pakistan, Fox News has confirmed. The U.S. has used drones to kill a dozen Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, including those linked to direct attacks on U.S. and British targets, within the last year.
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