A U.S. fighter pilot lost nearly 20 years ago in the Persian Gulf War will remain classified as missing, but Navy Secretary Donald Winter expressed strong reservations about the pilot's status and cited "compelling" evidence that he is dead. ...more

March 10, 2009

"A Most Wanted Man," by John Le Carre (Scribner, $28) ...more

October 5, 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

The House, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, approved a sweeping surveillance law Friday that extends the government's eavesdropping capability and effectively shields telecommunications companies from being sued for cooperating with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. ...more

June 21, 2008

Once again, politics is rearing its ugly and menacing head in the arena of national security. ...more

February 15, 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

As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets. ...more

September 9, 2007