
Both the Obama administration and news network CNN knew that the Septemeber 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, was carried out by the Islamist militant group Ansar al-Sharia but hid that information from the American people until after the 2012 presidential election.
by Lee Stranahan24 Dec 2015, 5:39 AM PST0

The Republican-controlled Senate narrowly confirmed President Obama’s nominee Alissa Starzak, who led a controversial review of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” as the next general counsel of the Department of the Army on Monday
by Edwin Mora15 Dec 2015, 2:55 PM PST0

There are rumors the spiritual and political leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the so-called “caliph,” was seriously injured in an October airstrike conducted by Iraqi forces.
by John Hayward9 Dec 2015, 7:28 PM PST0

The Obama administration pursued a policy in Libya back in 2011 that ultimately allowed guns to walk into the hands of jihadists linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda (AQ) in Syria, according to a former CIA officer who co-authored a report on behalf of the Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi (CCB), detailing the gun running scheme.
by Edwin Mora30 Nov 2015, 8:14 AM PST0

There have been several high-profile accusations that material leaked by Edward Snowden helped ISIS terrorists conceal their operations from Western intelligence agencies, including planning and execution of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris on Friday.
by John Hayward16 Nov 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Speaking at a global security forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director John Brennan warned that the Islamic State is probably planning more attacks like the massacre in Paris.
by John Hayward16 Nov 2015, 9:14 AM PST0

CIA Director John Brennan said that the Paris terrorist attacks are “not a surprise.”
by Michelle Fields16 Nov 2015, 7:57 AM PST0

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), which includes fighters trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has reportedly been decimated by widespread desertions.
by Edwin Mora12 Nov 2015, 7:10 PM PST0

Instead of supporting Israel in a planned raid against Iran’s nuclear program, the Obama administration utilized the nation’s premier espionage resources to engage the regime in Tehran and keep Jerusalem in the dark, a Wall Street Journal report recounted.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Oct 2015, 10:32 AM PST0

Wikileaks has begun posting the emails of CIA Director John Brennan, having presumably obtained them from the “stoned high-school student” who compromised his America Online account. Half a dozen of the documents that were attached to Brennan’s emails were posted on Wednesday, with Wikileaks promising that more would be forthcoming over the next few days.
by John Hayward21 Oct 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

Another email scandal rocks the Obama Administration, as a hacker described as a “stoner high-school student” tells the New York Post he breached the America Online email account of CIA Director John Brennan and stole sensitive work-related documents that should not have been there.
by John Hayward19 Oct 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

An analyst and writer, who has appeared on Fox News as an unpaid guest analyst since 2004, has been arrested in part for fraudulently claiming that he worked for the CIA.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Oct 2015, 6:25 PM PST0

The title given to Michael Isikoff’s piece is “Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails,” but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs: Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private mail server.
by John Hayward9 Oct 2015, 11:44 AM PST0

U.S. officials declared on Monday that they are convinced Russian warplanes were deliberately targeting CIA-backed Syrian rebels.
by John Hayward6 Oct 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

The Russians are still insisting their air campaign is targeting the Islamic State, but U.S. officials say the bombs have been dropping on CIA-backed rebel groups.
by John Hayward1 Oct 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Retired General David Petraeus appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to discuss the administration’s current Mid East strategy.
by Jordan Schachtel22 Sep 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

Production of the film Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Navy SEAL raid that killed him in 2011, has long been controversial. Now a Zero Dark Thirty controversy is being brought to light by newly-released documents: the filmmakers were nearly prosecuted for bribing some of the CIA officials with whom they worked.
by John Hayward9 Sep 2015, 10:14 PM PST0

The CIA, in collaboration with U.S. Special Operation forces, has embarked on a secret drone campaign to track and kill terrorism suspects in Syria deemed “high-value targets,” namely senior Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, The Washington Post has learned from U.S. officials.
by Edwin Mora3 Sep 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

The L.A. Coroner has revealed that the mystery man who left behind “1,200 guns and tons of ammunition” in a Pacific Palisades condo was 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash–a man who told the women in his life that he was suffering from “nerve gas poisoning from his time in the CIA” when he was actually suffering from cancer.
by AWR Hawkins28 Aug 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

For years, security-minded politicians have been saying that U.S. spy agencies and the private sector need to have a better working relationship to stop terrorism. But if the arm-in-arm relationship between communications giant AT&T and the National Security Agency is any indication, that relationship is already in full bloom. Worse, the government has been paying AT&T millions to supply the info.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Aug 2015, 7:46 PM PST0

On Friday, after government investigators reported that Hillary Clinton actually did send classified security information over her private email server despite her adamant claims that she never did, the Associated Press rushed out a “report” that excuses Clinton for violating federal rules and for lying about doing it.
by Warner Todd Huston15 Aug 2015, 11:22 AM PST0

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has finally seized Hillary Clinton’s emails, including her “Top Secret” correspondences from her tenure as Secretary of State. But hold on: The State Department still has the authority to withhold two of Hillary Clinton’s
by Patrick Howley11 Aug 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

The late conservative commentator Paul Harvey’s radio program had a segment titled “The Rest of the Story.” He would begin discussing a story line, pausing for effect with a commercial break, and then returning to finish it—usually with an unexpected twist.
by James Zumwalt6 Aug 2015, 1:50 PM PST0

Many experts reckon the first cyberwar is already well under way. It’s not exactly a “cold war,” as the previous generation understood the term, because serious damage valued in millions of dollars has been done, and there’s nothing masked about the hostile intent of state-sponsored hackers. What has been masked is the sponsorship.
by John Hayward20 May 2015, 7:45 PM PST0

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former CIA deputy director Mike Morell defended enhanced interrogation techniques. He said we can debate whether or not it’s moral, but the truth is it was “absolutely effective.” “I don’t call it torture,” he said. “[L]et
by Pam Key15 May 2015, 10:20 AM PST0