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28 Mar 2008, 7:05 am
"Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases": Today's edition of The New York Times contains a front page article that begins, "When officers from the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting harsh interrogations in 2005, they may have believed they were freeing the government and themselves from potentially serious legal trouble. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 6:31 am by David V. Gioe
When a small plane landed on the White House lawn in 1994, a popular quip was that it was actually the Director of Central Intelligence, Jim Woolsey, trying to meet with President Clinton. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 5:27 am by Ben Vernia
On March 7, the Department of Justice announced that three Central Intelligence Agency contractors had agreed to pay $3 million in total to resolve claims that they colluded and paid kickbacks to government officials and consultants to steer business to the companies. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 8:32 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to evacuate Americans using helicopters and ground troops as the window begins to close for rescuing all people at risk in Afghanistan. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 12:15 pm
Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 5:48 am
The Wall Street Journal reports from Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Netherlands: Last week, LulzSec [a splinter group of Anonymous] said it had knocked the Central Intelligence Agency's website offline for about an hour. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 8:18 am by Matt Houlihan
Yesterday saw the launch of guidelines from the European Commission’s Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which give welcome focus on the of role ethics  in the development of trustworthy AI. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 8:55 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  They also have some telling comments on the way the report was prepared.The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Central Intelligence Agency detention and interrogation of terrorists, prepared only by the Democratic majority staff, is a missed opportunity to deliver a serious and balanced study of an important public policy question. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 11:22 am by Kent Scheidegger
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has this op-ed in the WSJ:Considering that the now-abolished Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program adopted in the wake of 9/11 was intended to protect the U.S. from another deadly attack, it is stunning to hear those now criticizing the program issue the solemn reminder that "we are a nation of laws"--while devoting little attention to what was actually in those laws. [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 5:43 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The CIA, SSCI, and the Speech or Debate Clause “In a Tuesday floor speech, Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of monitoring a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) computer network that was used by Committee staff while conducting an investigation into CIA interrogation techniques. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 4:33 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Limitations in the intelligence community’s (IC) inventory of contract personnel hinder the ability to determine the extent to which the eight civilian IC elements—the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and six components within the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and the Treasury—use these personnel. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 7:00 am by Matthew Borges
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Edward Snowden for publishing a book, Permanent Record, in violation of non-disclosure agreements he had with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 9:30 am by Beryl Lipton
A lot of agencies have a lot of backlog to address; the Central Intelligence Agency, for one, reports having more than 1000 requests in queue for processing. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 12:49 am by Ryan Mulvey
NSA wanted to use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist for using FOIAEmma Best, MuckRock, Oct. 24, 2017Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) archives show that while the CIA was looking to include the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) in its war on leaks, the National Security Agency (NSA) was seriously considering using the Espionage Act to target target Puzzle Palace author James Bamford for using… [read post]
24 May 2019, 11:35 am by Sean Gallagher
(credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Late in the day on May 23, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the heads of the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, and the Directors of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to give Attorney General William Barr unfettered access to information about "intelligence activities relating to the campaigns in the 2016 Presidential election and certain related… [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 10:38 am
District Court Judge Lamberth has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to grant security clearances to the lawyers on both sides of a case so they can participate in the adjudication of what relevant evidence is properly classified. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 12:29 pm by David Kravets
The Central Intelligence Agency says releasing images of a dead Osama bin Laden “could trigger violence, attacks, or acts of revenge against the United States.” Disclosing such images, including one showing the bullet wound to bin Laden’s head, the government said, “plausibly and logically pose a particularly grave threat of inflaming anti-American sentiment and resulting in retaliatory harm.” (.pdf) The agency made that argument… [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 8:01 am by Angela Mauroni
Garrison Kenneth Courtney, formerly a public affairs officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding companies of millions of dollars by pretending to be an officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 7:08 am by Gabrielle Wast
Esmaili stated: “Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for [the Central Intelligence Agency] and Mossad, has been sentenced to death. [read post]