cia

The CIA is Taking "Unprecedented Attempts" to Stop Leaks About Benghazi

Maggie Lange · 08/02/13 08:03AM

The CIA is reportedly going to unprecedented measures to halt its operatives from speaking to the press or Congress about its role in Benghazi, Libya. According to a CNN report, the agency is holding monthly polygraph tests and using intimidation with its operatives involved in Benghazi at the time of last year's September 11 attacks. Though little is known about what the agency was doing, the CIA is intent on silencing any information about its role. One source said:

Hamilton Nolan · 07/19/13 02:35PM

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York Times reporter James Risen must testify in the case of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer currently on trial for allegedly leaking classified information. Risen has vowed to go to jail, if necessary, to protect his sources.

CIA Spies Were Embedded Inside the NYPD

Hamilton Nolan · 06/27/13 08:11AM

A newly released 2011 report from the CIA's inspector general reveals that the CIA embedded four officers inside the NYPD's intelligence division after 9/11. The CIA, of course, is not allowed to spy on Americans. And they didn't, according to the CIA!

CIA Nominee, Like Everyone in D.C., Loves Erotica

Max Read · 06/13/13 09:56AM

The surest sign yet, if you needed one, that President Obama's nominee for the CIA's number-two position is a middle-of-the-road D.C. establishment choice: She used to run an erotica reading night at a bookstore.

Leah Beckmann · 06/12/13 03:00PM

CIA deputy director Michael Morell has resigned. He will be replaced by President Obama’s deputy counsel and agency outsider Avril D. Haines.

Meet The Former CIA Operative Behind the NSA Leaks (Updates)

Max Rivlin-Nadler · 06/09/13 02:41PM

Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, which assigned him to work for the NSA, has revealed himself as the leaker behind the documents this week that showed the extent of spying that the NSA does on American citizens.

Taylor Berman · 06/05/13 06:51PM

According to NBC News, the CIA didn't always know who it was targeting with its drone strikes in Pakistan. Roughly 25 percent of those killed over a 14-month period were listed as “other militants,” meaning the CIA wasn't sure how the person killed was affiliated with terrorist organizations, if they were at all.

CIA's New Chief Spy Outed on Twitter

Taylor Berman · 05/08/13 10:34PM

The day after it was announced that the interim head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service had been passed over for the full time position because of her connections to the agency's controversial interrogation program, her successor was reportedly outed on Twitter by former Washington Post assistant editor John Dinges and then confirmed by veteran intelligence reporter Jeff Stein. According to Dinges, the new head of the program will be Francis “Frank” Archibald, a former station chief in Latin America.

Why Cats Are Not Good Spies

Hamilton Nolan · 05/08/13 10:30AM

Today in True Historical Misadventures of the CIA: the time they tried to turn a cat into a spy.