Drone strike comes despite transparency pledge

The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a clear signal that despite President Barack Obama's promise last week of ...

Topics: National Security Council , Central Intelligence Agency , National Security

Leak scandal teaches Booz Allen a hard lesson about cybersecurity

Seattle Times 3 days ago

Mike McConnell and his fellow Booz Allen Hamilton executives have a lot of questions to answer, including: Why did the government contractor assign a ...

Topics: National Security Agency , National Security

What's a drone? How is US drone policy changing?

Seattle Times May 24

President Barack Obama defended America's drone attacks as legal, effective and necessary in America's campaign to counter ...

Topics: Central Intelligence Agency , National Security

Mangled facts, secrecy brew confusion about NSA

Seattle Times Jun 14

Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists?

Topics: National Security Agency , Central Intelligence Agency , National Security

Snowden calls U.S. intelligence ‘aggressively criminal’

Seattle Times 1 day ago

In an online chat on the Guardian newspaper’s website, the former National Security Agency contractor promised to release more secrets about U.S.

Topics: National Security Agency , National Security

Investigators drill into how leaker got top-secret data

Seattle Times Jun 11

Edward Snowden leaked national-security documents available to only a few dozen people. Federal investigators want to know how he gained access to ...