He has read "Ghost Wars," the history of the long adventure by the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan and its fruitless effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. ...more

January 4, 2009

Seeking experience in a time of war, President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job - if only temporarily - and he has chosen a retired Marine general to be his national security adviser, officials said Tuesday. ...more

November 26, 2008

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made her diplomatic debut Tuesday, meeting with two heads of state who had traveled to New York for the opening of the United Nation's General Assembly. ...more

September 24, 2008

About a quarter of the nation's core intelligence work force are contractors, perhaps as many as 37,000 private employees who work side-by-side with civil servants as analysts, technology specialists and mission managers, according to a report about government outsourcing by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ...more

August 28, 2008

Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters, undermining shaky governments and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the United States, intelligence agencies say. ...more

June 26, 2008

The U.S. intelligence chief said Sunday that internal Hezbollah groups or Syria may be to blame for the killing of a Hezbollah commander that has led the FBI to put domestic terror squads on alert in the United States. ...more

February 18, 2008

The nation's intelligence chief says waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him or if someone under interrogation was taking water into his lungs. ...more

January 13, 2008

The starkly different view of Iran's nuclear program that emerged from U.S. spy agencies this week was the product of a surge in clandestine intelligence-gathering in Iran as well as radical changes in the way the intelligence community analyzes information. ...more

December 5, 2007

Half a lifetime ago, when party lines allowed neighbors to know your business, people had no expectation of privacy when making a telephone call. ...more

November 19, 2007

The Bush administration plans to push for new sanctions against Iran after the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency reported Thursday Tehran is providing "diminishing" information about its controversial nuclear program, U.S. officials said. ...more

November 16, 2007