CIA sandwiched between need to perform, conform
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You almost need a secret decoder ring to try to figure out what is really going on in the Central Intelligence Agency, which is both highly secretive and resistant to understanding by outsiders and yet fond of publicity and adept (at many levels) in the
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ROME, Feb 9 (IPS) - Several European counties may soon be asked to  explain their "passivity" over illegal renditions by the  CIA through European airspace between 2001 and 2005.
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The actions of a key figure in a controversy over destroyed interrogation tapes show the C.I.A.âs protective instinct.
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Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent.  It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boo...
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A senior CIA officer says bad decisions, understaffing and infighting among intelligence agencies stifled efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and his network. More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency remains short-staffed, he says.
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The CIA's new director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, told agency employees yesterday that their intelligence activities are too segmented, saying that operations officers who collect intelligence need to work more closely with the analysts who interpret what it means.
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In famous Cold War spying incident, a celebrated CIA coup may not have been such a victory.
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Key members of Congress and the 9/11 commission make it clear that a federal board to protect civil liberties in the age of terrorism is not optional. But they're struggling to figure out how to establish it. By Ryan Singel.
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It has now become apparent why Porter Goss, a politician, was named to head the CIA in an administration that already has been accused of politicizing intelligence during the Iraq war: to settle old scores.
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The Senate intelligence committee has proposed a plan to break up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and divide its responsibility among three new spy agencies, news reports here said Monday.
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Coercion doesnât work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But he also cautioned it may take longer than the past CIA director's estimate to hire and train all the operatives needed worldwide to combat terrorism and other threats...
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Controversy over deleted CIA videotapes provides a lesson for companies required to keep electronic evidence, some experts say.
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As Germany and Interpol join the Litvinenko investigation, clues - and agendas - are often at odds.
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WASHINGTON -- A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush administration officials, according to former and current government officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at the CIA and departments ...
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Intelligence agencies are about to undergo a much-needed overhaul. To ensure success, the president will need to appoint a strong director.
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If you're an employee at the FBI or the Defense Intelligence Agency, you may soon be pulling a tour of duty at the CIA -- especially if you want to qualify for a promotion to a top job in the U.S. intelligence community.