Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan. ...more

September 10, 2008

Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday that the Justice Department has elevated its inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes to a formal criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor. ...more

January 3, 2008

If Abu Zubaydah, a senior operative of al-Qaida, died in American hands, CIA officers pursuing the terrorist group knew that much of the world would think they had killed him. ...more

December 30, 2007

The movie is set in the Middle East, but what happens to Jake Gyllenhaal's character in 'Rendition' is a classic Washington tale. ...more

October 21, 2007