War Scare
According to a declassified National Security Agency history, American Cryptology During the Cold War, the "period 1982-1984 marked the most ...
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Obama's Plumbers
You have to feel a teeny-tiny bit of sympathy for the Obama administration,which buckledto congressional pressure last year by agreeing to ...
A close reading of the Fox News story at the center of Washington's latest scandal
On Monday, the Washington Post revealed that the Justice Department obtained sweeping access to a reporter's email account and tracked his movements ...
Benghazi emails reveal CIA-State Department turf war: Administration officials
The newly-revealed Benghazi emails obtained by ABC News reflect a bureaucratic turf war between the CIA and the State Department, according to ...
The Moscow Rules Still Rule
The arrest of the American diplomat, Ryan Fogle, in Moscow late Monday, May 13, was a journey to an earlier era, a throwback to a quarter century ago ...
Interesting job moves: From NSA's 'tailored access' office to PACOM intel
I always read the Pentagon's flag officer announcements, mainly to see if someone I know has gotten an interesting job. (It is nice to see people I ...
Out with It
In April 1975, Sen. Frank Church impaneled a special investigative committee to look into shocking accounts of CIA dirty tricks.
A close reading of the recruitment letter Russia allegedly captured from a CIA agent
On Tuesday, Russia's FSB -- the successor organization to the KGB -- announced that it had captured a U.S. spy who was trying to recruit a Russian ...
The leak that triggered the AP phone probe scandal
One of the curiosities of the Justice Department's extensive probe of the Associated Press's phone records is the role that CIA Director John Brennan ...
Do bags of cash ever help the CIA get what it wants?
On Monday, the New York Times revealed that the CIA has been funneling tens of millions of dollars to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.