A US official told CNN today that an airstrike probably killed al-Qaeda terrorist Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi, the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.
The attack killed 17 sailors and injured 39 others. Many believe the terrorist attack “foreshadowed the attack on the US less than one...
Monday, Trump attorney Rudy Guiliani publicly dared former CIA Director John Brennan to make good on his threats and file suit.
Wednesday, the White House announced former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance had been revoked.
Brennan is no fan of Trump.
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A grand jury indicted ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte for stealing and leaking classified information to an organization.
The indictment does not name the organization, but Politico and The New York Times reported the organization is Wikileaks.
Gina Haspel made history today when she became the first female CIA director. From Fox News:
Haspel was confirmed Thursday as CIA director, becoming the first woman to lead the agency after overcoming initial Democratic opposition regarding her role in post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices.
Haspel, who previously served as deputy director and...
A second Democrat senator has announced his support for President Trump’s pick to head the CIA. Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN) issued a statement in support of Gina Haspel. In doing so, he joins Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) in saying they support her nomination. Both senators are facing potentially tough reelections this...
As we’ve been covering here at LI, Gina Haspel is President Trump’s pick to head the CIA. She has been blasted for her role in overseeing then-legal and -authorized enhanced interrogation techniques against Islamist terrorists.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has issued a statement in which he urges the Senate not to confirm...
Rumor has it that President Donald Trump is soon going to send Mike Pompeo on another rescue mission.
The target? CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel, who had to undergo two tortuous exchanges with the US senators from California during her confirmation hearing.
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The pace of media frenzy and #TheResistance howling has picked up lately, particularly in the wake of the firing of Andrew McCabe.
But this frenzy is just a variation on a theme.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has decided to still oppose CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel as director of the spy agency despite the fact ProPublica retracted a report that claimed she supervised and participated in torture in 2002.
After President Donald Trump nominated CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to takeover as director, stories from a year ago circulated about how she was in charge of a secret CIA prison in Thailand that tortured al-Qaeda suspects. The reports contained claims that she even participated.
I even blogged about it, mainly because...
President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this morning and nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to take over that role. He also nominated CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to lead the spy agency.
If confirmed, Haspel will become the first woman CIA director. However, she may face a rocky road...
President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his replacement.
The State Department’s statement said that Tillerson does not know why Trump let him go.
A former CIA officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, has been charged with “unlawful retention of national defense information.”
Lee allegedly had in his possession notebooks containing the details and identities of current CIA operatives and is suspected of identifying both spy recruits and CIA agents to the Chinese government.
Russian Vladimir Putin called President Donald Trump to thank the CIA for helping prevent terrorist attacks in Russia. From The New York Times:
In rare words of praise for the C.I.A., Mr. Putin said the agency had provided informati...
The CIA has released thousands of documents, videos, computer files, and pictures that U.S. forces captured during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in May 2011.
FDD’s Long War Journal (LWJ) has been pressing the agency to release these items, which have given us insight into al-Qaeda and the...
