FBI says no more anti-Muslim training, but the problem runs deep
FBI says it pulled anti-Muslim training materials
FBI trains agents with ineffective, anti-Muslim materials
‘Top Secret America’: Washington Post Unmasks Unwieldy Security Behemoth
DNI Blair Resigns
Jake Tapper reported earlier today that Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair would resign as early as tomorrow.
For several weeks President Obama has been holding serious conversations about whether to ask Blair to step down and has interviewed candidates to replace him. After a discussion this afternoon between the president...
White House: Kit Bond’s Attack on Brennan “Pathetic”
Republicans are back to their ususal election year trick of fear-mongering, attacking--of all people--John Brennan, the former Bush director of the National Counterterrorism Center and current counter-terror chief. Kit Bond has called for him to step down, primary because Brennan has been taken the lead in fighting against Republicans attempts to protray Obama as...
CIA Subcontracted Assassination Program to Blackwater
Filed under: Iraq, Scandal, Investigations, Media, Guns, Terror, Foreign Policy, National Security
Now we find out the CIA was subcontracting an assassination program to a private company, deciding apparently that a public option was not enough. So in 2001,...
White House Delays Declassification of Old Intelligence Documents
Filed under: Obama Administration, National Security
The White House says it will miss the Dec. 31 deadline to declassify millions of pages of military and intelligence documents.Administration officials say the declassification could be delayed by years, the Boston Globe reported Sunday. It would be the third such extension related...
CIA Revives Data-Sharing Program With Climate Scientists
Filed under: Bush Administration, Environment
Top scientists and spies are once again collaborating in an effort to use government equipment, including spy satellites and other classified sensors, to study climate change, the New York Times reports. The partnership revives a program shut down by the Bush administration and which now has...Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?
Filed under: Iraq, Woman Up, International
LONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been...