Costs soar in war against Islamic State
The cost of the fight against the Islamic State continues to mount. The departure of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel may be one of them, but I want to focus on...
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In rebuke of FBI, Bush recasts U.S. intelligence
President Bush ordered another major shake-up of the nation's intelligence services Wednesday, forming new national security divisions within both the FBI and the Justice Department and, for the first time,...
Legislators report little progress on intelligence bill
House-Senate negotiators, trying to resolve differences in bills to restructure the nation's intelligence community, announced minimal progress Friday and conceded it will be difficult to complete the task before the...
Chalabi linked to 2nd cable by Iranians
Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician suspected by U.S. authorities of having told Iran this spring that its secret communications code had been broken, was involved in another intercept episode 9...
The `smoking gun’ that wasn’t
The information was so startling that CIA Director George Tenet, accompanied by Vice President Dick Cheney, trooped up to Capitol Hill to brief the four Senate and House leaders the...
FBI leak probe stretches back to events in June
FBI agents investigating the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity have begun by examining events in the month before the leak, when the CIA, the White House and Vice President...
Where has inner circle of Hussein gone to?
When U.S. troops, rifles drawn, burst into a headquarters of Iraq's much-feared intelligence service in Baghdad this week, their mission was to seize thousands of files documenting the nation's foreign...
U.S. officials: Hussein was in bunker
U.S. intelligence officials believe Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, possibly accompanied by one or both of his powerful sons, was still inside a compound in southern Baghdad early Thursday when it...
Latest transcript of tape further incriminates bin Laden
The laugh Americans heard from Osama bin Laden on the videotape released by the Bush administration last week came as the Al Qaeda leader described how his "pilots" did not...
U.S. has videotape tying bin Laden to attacks, officials say
The United States has obtained a videotape of Osama bin Laden describing the damage to the World Trade Center as being much greater than he had expected, according to senior...