Congressional Oversight and Agency Accountability for the Central Intelligence Agency
By Nicole Carle Since its inception, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has operated with little oversight and control by other...
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THE BLOG
Apr 19, 20112 min read
Libya: National Interest?
Each day new information regarding the extent of US involvement in Libya is released. Recently we found out about CIA agents present on...
Jun 11, 20102 min read
Medical Experimentation on Detainees
In a review of The Torture Papers—a collection of investigations by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)—Professor Steven Vladeck says that...
Apr 30, 20101 min read
Mehsud Reportedly Alive
Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Pakistani intelligence now believes that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud survived a...
Apr 5, 20101 min read
Drones Used More Frequently Against Militants in Pakistan
In the past 3 months, the CIA has used drone attacks against suspected militants associated with Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan...
Mar 21, 20102 min read
Panetta Takes Hard Line as CIA Director
When Leon Panetta was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) skeptics wondered how the former congressman, with the...
Feb 19, 20101 min read
Commander of Afghan Pro–Taliban Fighters Killed in Pakistani Drone Attack
Mohammed Haqqani, the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, was killed Friday in a drone attack in North Waziristan, along with several...
Feb 6, 20101 min read
Interagency Teams Begin Questioning Terror Suspects
Interagency interrogation teams were approved last week by the President. Interrogations have begun. Interrogators from the CIA, the...
Jan 14, 20101 min read
Suspected U.S. Drone Attack Kills at Least 18, Injures 14 in North Waziristan
On Thursday, January 14, two missiles from a suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least 18 and injured another 14 at a compound based in...
Jan 10, 20101 min read
Video Shows CIA Bomber’s Connection to Taliban in Pakistan
The Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video with Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (the suicide bomber who killed several CIA agents...
Dec 3, 20091 min read
Pakistan Drone Program Set to Expand
To complement the military expansion in Afghanistan that President Obama announced Tuesday, it was reveled today that the CIA will expand...
Nov 29, 20091 min read
U.S. Maintains 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan
The New York Times has reported that the American military continues to maintain a detention camp at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan,...
Nov 24, 20091 min read
CIA Investment Firm Announces Strategic Partnership with FireEye, Inc. Malware Protection
In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s investment firm, announced a strategic partnership with FireEye, Inc. on Friday to expand its cyber security product...
Nov 15, 20091 min read
Valerie Plame Loses First Amendment Appeal
Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA Operations Officer whose affiliation was revealed in 2003, has lost her First Amendment appeal to...
Nov 4, 20091 min read
Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Rendition Case
On Wednesday an Italian court convicted 22 C.I.A. agents and a U.S. Air Force Colonel for the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric....
Nov 3, 20091 min read
CIA adjusts Afghan population estimations
The CIA released a “significantly revised figure” for Afghanistan’s population last week. The CIA’s new number is 5.2 million lower than...
Oct 28, 20091 min read
Brother of Afghan Leader is Said to be on C.I.A. Payroll
Today, the NY Times report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, has been receiving payments from the C.I.A....
Oct 16, 20091 min read
CIA's Continued Resistance to Document Release
Friday, the NYT reported on the CIA’s continued resistance to revealing documents from 1963 related to Lee Harvey Oswald and a Cuban...
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