The outrageous whitewash issued Wednesday by the CIA panel John Brennan hand-picked to lead the investigation into his agency's spying on Senate staffers is being taken seriously by the elite Washington media. But it's just the latest element in a long string of cover-ups and deceptions.

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

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 […]

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

According to a new poll, a sizeable majority of American voters believe CIA officials violated the constitutional system of checks and balances when they hacked into computers being used by Senate staffers investigating torture. And by a two-to-one margin (54 percent to 25 percent, with 22 percent not sure) they believe that CIA Director John […]

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.

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

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 […]