Articles tagged "CIA"

If Michael Moore is obsessed with outrage, and Herzog is obsessed with dreams, Gibney is a master of moments.

We're still a long way away from finding out what it plans on doing with them.

The day has come. Sort of--members of two Senate Intelligence Committees now have "access" to classified memos undergirding the legal justification for killing US citizens abroad in the war on al-Qaeda. But is the big reveal merely lip service?

Before his CIA pick John Brennan gets grilled in Congress, Obama's own "torture memos" on targeted killings -- and a new set of intel on Bush's torture program -- shed some harsh light on how America secretly conducts war.

On Wednesday, the government announced that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for Anonymous, is facing up to 100 years in jail.

John McCain has never faltered in his principled stance against torture. John Brennan, on the other hand?

If England hadn't whispered to its ally, it's likely the US wouldn't have ever pulled the trigger on the drone strike that killed Khan, a Pakistani elder with British connections.

When he enters a federal prison on Friday, John Kiriakou will be the only former CIA agent prosecuted in relation to the Bush White House's torture program, but not for committing torture.

It's almost comical, the hand-wringing and head-butting that went into what's ultimately a non-decision, or at the least a long punt. And it doesn't help that the guy who designed Obama's new drone "playbook" doesn't have to adhere to it.

Nominating Chuck Hagel and John O. Brennan as defense secretary and CIA chief, respectively, represents a somewhat controversial re-imagining of the US national security team's expanding drone wars.

America's intelligence community thinks we're headed for an era of super-enhanced human cyborgs and giant megacities set to a backdrop of ominous climate disasters. Yeah, the CIA's predicts that the future is basically a cyberpunk novel.

Let's have a little talk about secrets. There are all kinds of secrets out there in the world: personal secrets, state secrets, secret recipes, secret sauces, top secrets, secret levels in video games, Victoria's Secret. The list goes on. But as we'r…

The theories swirling around a mysterious, deadly explosion in Indianpolis over the weekend sound like the recipe for a futuristic Tom Clancy thriller or a dystopian video game.

CIA Director David Petraeus has requested the White House approve a proposal to expand the agency’s fleet of drones, which has stood at around 30-35 in recent years, by as many as 10 aircraft.

Long before the current saber-rattling in the Middle East and “credible” talk of Israeli-US attacks on the country’s enrichment facilities, Encyclopedia Britannica made this film about a happier Iran.

The statistics on remotely-piloted warfare keep getting messier. As many as 33 people are dead in Pakistan and Afghanistan thanks to a series of U.S. drone strikes over the weekend. In Pakistan, it was three separate attacks on Taliban insurgents — o…

He may not formally take office until year's end, but I'll be damned if Mexico's president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto isn't already talking up his retooling the narco-state's counterdrugs policy. It's maybe way, way too early to tell whether his couter…

There was a time when Robert Baer probably would've had to kill you after dishing any one of his secrets. _Watch the rest at Motherboard._

The CIA's covert targeted drone killing campaign throughout the Middle East is an open secret. As much as the Obama administration wishes it could blot out recent leaks surrounding kills lists and chains of commands and those nagging, sour accusation…

There. I said it. True, what we actually know about the U.S.’s overseas drone operations couldn’t hold a candle to what we know is purposely being kept in the dark. There’s no arguing that. Remember that the American program to use unmanned a…

He has been charged with five criminal counts of espionage by a White House with a growing track record of going after whistleblowers: whereas other presidents before Obama have cited the Espionage Act in prosecutions no more than three times, this w…

The most recent bombshell of confidential documents dropped by infamous watchdog organization Wikileaks is already looking to have an enormous impact on our understanding of government security practices. Specifically, intimate details on the long-su…

America's falling drone syndrome continues to spread, most recently over Iran, which claims to have brought a stealth UAV down through hacking. That's what insurgents said they "did to US drones":http://motherboard.vice.com/2009/12/17/the-26-insurgen…