Retired Official Defends The CIA's Performance
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In April, James L. Pavitt became the first director of the CIA's clandestine service ever to testify publicly before Congress. While he was not technically undercover as the deputy director of operations, just about everything he was in charge of for five years  was.
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A senior U.S. administration official on Wednesday warned that ongoing inquiries into secret CIA activities in the European Union may undermine intelligence cooperation between the United States and European ...Comment
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A former top White House official accused the Bush administration yesterday of trying to muzzle his criticism of its Iran policy and of falsely alleging  that his writings contained classified material to prevent them from being published.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush's choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to U.S. intelligence services.
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WASHINGTON - A sweeping proposal from the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to effectively dismantle the CIA drew fire Monday from congressional Democrats and mixed reviews from former intelligence officers.
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WASHINGTON - A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."   Critics began aligning to fight the proposal that would represent the most significant overhaul of U.S...
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The former U.S. administrator in Iraq on Tuesday defended American actions there &#151; a day after faulting troop strength following the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
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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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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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Attorneys for a former detainee at a secret CIA prison said in a court filing this week that intelligence officials had falsely claimed in public statements that his interrogations were not videotaped, that all videotaped interrogations stopped in 2002 and that only a small number of CIA detainees...
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The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said Wednesday.
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to US intelligence services.
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The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday defended the agency's record in pursuing corporate misconduct, rebuffing accusations that it may be tilting toward business interests.
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Britain's former spy chief on Wednesday  took the rare step of going public to deny that the security  services murdered Princess Diana.
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Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff lied to investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity in order to keep his job and protect the White House from political embarrassment, prosecutors told jurors yesterday in the closing arguments of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury...