At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the CIA between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two al-Qaida operatives, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. ...more

December 19, 2007

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

When the United States learned in 2001 that Pakistani scientists had shared nuclear secrets with members of al-Qaida, an alarmed Bush administration responded with tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment, such as intrusion detectors and ID systems, to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear weapons. ...more

November 12, 2007

The House will vote by year's end on legislation that would shield reporters from being forced to reveal their sources in some cases in federal court, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. ...more

October 5, 2007