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The Corrupt Philanderer Who Built the CIA’s Black Sites

The Corrupt Philanderer Who Built the CIA’s Black Sites

The Corrupt Philanderer Who Built the CIA’s Black Sites

Bureaucrats love secrets, and if empowered to create them, they won't be able to resist doing so.

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney attends the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC), on February 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. The CPAC annual gathering is a project of the American Conservative Union. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dick Cheney

Q&A: On the Untouchable ‘Lords of Secrecy’

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney attends the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC), on February 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. The CPAC annual gathering is a project of the American Conservative Union. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dick Cheney

Q&A: On the Untouchable ‘Lords of Secrecy’

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney attends the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC), on February 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. The CPAC annual gathering is a project of the American Conservative Union. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dick Cheney

Q&A: On the Untouchable ‘Lords of Secrecy’

Powerful and unaccountable, the Lords of Secrecy, as Scott Horton calls them, are in charge of our national security state.

Brennan: Return of Torture Tactics Up to ‘Future Policymakers’

Brennan: Return of Torture Tactics Up to ‘Future Policymakers’

Brennan: Return of Torture Tactics Up to ‘Future Policymakers’

CIA Director John Brennan gave no ground to his critics during a press conference on Thursday, singing his agency’s praises and saying it “did a lot of things right” in its interrogation program. It was his first public appearance since a Senate report released on Tuesday exhaustively documented the CIA’s gruesome record of torture and […]

FILE - In this June 13, 2010, file photo a U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan. Hunting al-Qaida targets from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen to Somalia, the fleet of U.S. armed Predator and Reaper drones that killed two American members of al-Qaida in Yemen Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, are the night stalkers of the expanded U.S. war on terrorists. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, Pool, File)

Secret Cash Pays for U.S. Drone Mistakes

FILE - In this June 13, 2010, file photo a U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan. Hunting al-Qaida targets from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen to Somalia, the fleet of U.S. armed Predator and Reaper drones that killed two American members of al-Qaida in Yemen Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, are the night stalkers of the expanded U.S. war on terrorists. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, Pool, File)

Secret Cash Pays for U.S. Drone Mistakes

FILE - In this June 13, 2010, file photo a U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan. Hunting al-Qaida targets from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen to Somalia, the fleet of U.S. armed Predator and Reaper drones that killed two American members of al-Qaida in Yemen Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, are the night stalkers of the expanded U.S. war on terrorists. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, Pool, File)

Secret Cash Pays for U.S. Drone Mistakes

Victims of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia are being compensated with large amounts of cash — but it's not officially U.S. money.

Dianne Feinstein

Frustrated CIA Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be Intelligible

Dianne Feinstein

Frustrated CIA Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be Intelligible

Dianne Feinstein

Frustrated CIA Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be Intelligible

The CIA today hotly denied that it is intentionally holding up the release of a Senate report on its role in torturing detainees, charging instead that Senator Dianne Feinstein’s intelligence committee is responsible for dragging out the negotiations. “The suggestion that CIA is delaying or obstructing the negotiations over redactions is patently false,” agency spokesman […]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?

Dragging its feet declassifying the report, the White House may hope a GOP Senate kills it for them.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House on September 18, 2014 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate approved his plan for training and arming moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State militants. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Knew Arming Rebels Was Useless, But Did It Anyway

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House on September 18, 2014 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate approved his plan for training and arming moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State militants. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Knew Arming Rebels Was Useless, But Did It Anyway

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House on September 18, 2014 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate approved his plan for training and arming moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State militants. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama Knew Arming Rebels Was Useless, But Did It Anyway

What’s worse: Launching a disastrous military campaign under false pretenses to achieve goals you wrongly believe are attainable? Or launching a disastrous military campaign you know is doomed in order to help your party win an election? I ask in light of today’s New York Times story about how President Obama asked the CIA a […]

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA’s Secret Journal Articles Are Gossipy, Snarky, and No Longer Classified

The CIA declassified a trove of articles from its in-house journal, articles that mock excessive secrecy and bad writing, dish on problematic affairs, and brag about press manipulation.

After Lying and Apologizing, Brennan Qualifies Both

After Lying and Apologizing, Brennan Qualifies Both

After Lying and Apologizing, Brennan Qualifies Both

CIA Director John Brennan today petulantly denied that he lied when he insisted the CIA had not improperly accessed the computers of Senate staffers.

Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence, Torture Report, SSCI

Senate Torture Report Will Be Public in 2 to 4 Weeks, Says Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence, Torture Report, SSCI

Senate Torture Report Will Be Public in 2 to 4 Weeks, Says Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence, Torture Report, SSCI

Senate Torture Report Will Be Public in 2 to 4 Weeks, Says Feinstein

Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein expects the executive summary of her staff’s long-awaited report on the torture of American detainees to be ready for public release before the end of September, she said in an unaired segment of her “Meet the Press” interview this weekend (starts at 10:25 of the video). The torture report, which […]