Hush-Hush: Rove's Security Clearance Renewal
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Should White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove be privy to the nation's most sensitive secrets? Did he break trust with President Bush and the nation when he told syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak about Valerie Plame's classified job with the CIA? Did he further erode that trust in 2003 when...
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In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records.
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The FBI once regularly (and surreptitiously) broke into Americans' homes and offices. Now a Senate bill backed by President Bush seems to offer legal immunity to anyone who helps the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, or the NSA do just that.
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The transition to a new president could present vulnerabilities for terrorists to exploit.
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to a court review of his antiterror eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret surveillance to a constitutional test.
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While President Bush was in Australia last week, the White House completed the divvying-up of Karl Rove's sizable and important portfolio.
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Half of intelligence work is gathering facts. The other half is analysis. Turmoil at the CIA is a fact. Whether new Director Porter Goss is fixing the agency or breaking it is open to analysis.
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Karl Rove, the Republican most feared by Democrats and the reputed mastermind of President George W. Bush's election success, is the subject of a new film which depicts him as a modern-day Machiavelli.
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Snooping and secrecy can help the government catch terrorists. But they also can also let government employees sniff around your private life without your even knowing about it.
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In late 2002, Alex Gage sold his share of a well-established polling firm and set about convincing Karl Rove that he had the answer to ensuring President Bush's reelection.
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Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey
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Bush administration officials hope to resolve one of the government's most vexing problems before leaving office -- how to speed up security clearances for federal employees and contract workers.
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NEWS: The AP's Freedom of Information lawsuits have uncovered new documents regarding President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. Some of the files conflict with some of the harshest attacks against Bush, but many questions remain unanswered.
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The timing could hardly be better. "News War" is a "Frontline" probe into the modern Fourth Estate, embattled from many directions. And, by chance, it coincides with the imminent conclusion to a Washington free-for-all that has ensnared the news media: the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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Ivan Y. Pavlov leads a quiet but dangerous campaign in Russia: legal battles for what he calls, simply, âthe right to know.â
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Porter Goss says the CIA needs an overhaul. But is he fixing what's broken -- or conducting a purge?
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The federal government has long imposed unique ethical responsibilities on its contractors. Following the defense procurement scandals of the 1980s such as Operation Ill Wind, Congress considerably increased