| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| A New York Times story on March 19 reported that there might be "perils" for the U.S. in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran and warned that "it may be impossible to preclude American involvement in any escalating confrontation" with "dire consequences for the region and for United States forces there.". |
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May 1, 2012 |
536 |
| The CIA has gone into damage-control mode over a story that appeared on the front page of the Washington Post on February 8. |
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Mar 1, 2012 |
521 |
| American intelligence agencies are pretty sure that Israel is preparing to attack someone, but there is no agreement on who that might be. |
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Feb 1, 2012 |
407 |
| Americans should be concerned about what is happening in Syria, if only because it threatens to become another undeclared war like Libya but much, much worse. |
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Jan 1, 2012 |
497 |
| After the alleged Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, the White House issued a finding to the intelligence community authorizing stepped-up covert action against Iran. |
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Dec 1, 2011 |
453 |
| The successful assassination of alleged al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Anwar al-Awlaki was made possible by critical assistance from the Yemeni intelligence service. |
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Nov 1, 2011 |
541 |
| Contrary to mainstream media reports, the threat that Al-Qaeda was prepared to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 events with a truck bombing in Washington and/or New York, executed by one or possibly two terrorists holding American passports, never came from a CIA source. |
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Oct 1, 2011 |
345 |
| Intelligence sources are reporting that a major confrontation is brewing in Iraq that will likely explode at year's end, possibly forcing a rapid withdrawal of remaining U.S. forces in the country to American bases in Kuwait. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2011 |
169 |
| Shamai Leibowitz, an FBI Hebrew translator, was arrested in May 2010 for revealing restricted information consisting of five reports classified "secret" to an unidentified blogger. |
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Sep 1, 2011 |
533 |
| Washington politicians might be talking about success in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, but the nation's intelligence agencies are thinking otherwise. |
Brief article |
Aug 1, 2011 |
309 |
| The CIA has convened yet another blue-ribbon panel to address the problem that its officers are not very culturally diverse and are rarely proficient in foreign languages. |
Brief article |
Aug 1, 2011 |
228 |
| Intelligence sources indicate Pakistani security services unknowingly provided considerable assistance in the killing of Osama bin Laden, though they were never informed that he was the target and that Washington might act unilaterally. |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2011 |
180 |
| Was the stock market manipulated by a foreign entity with foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks? |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2011 |
247 |
| The revelation at the end of March that CIA teams have been active in Libya should come as no surprise. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2011 |
161 |
| The CIA teams in Libya are familiar with the country and are attempting to learn more about the rebel leadership. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2011 |
201 |
| On April 6, the Washington post published--and later expunged from its website--an article claiming that a Senate committee is recommending denying pensions to former intelligence officers. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2011 |
193 |
| The real mystery surrounding the Raymond Davis affair in Pakistan is why the United States government is counterproductively expending so much energy to free the CIA operative accused of shooting two men at a traffic stop. |
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May 1, 2011 |
560 |
| Diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks revealed that Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton had ordered American diplomats to collect personal information. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2011 |
280 |
| The Pentagon's newly launched cyber-command hacked WikiLeaks' servers to render the site inoperable. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2011 |
252 |
| In his new book Decision Points, ex-president George W. Bush confirms. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2011 |
307 |
| There are signs that Israel might be planning a military incursion into south Lebanon. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2011 |
239 |
| What happens when a government develops a frightening new technology, uses it in what it believes to be a restrained fashion, but then loses control? |
|
Dec 1, 2010 |
551 |
| One of the world's most powerful and wealthiest men, Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, has been placed under arrest. |
|
Jul 2, 2010 |
330 |
| A recently declassified report by the General Accounting Office has confirmed that a Pennsylvania plant illegally shipped a minimum of 206 pounds of uranium to Israel. |
Brief article |
Jul 2, 2010 |
210 |
| Is anyone wondering what happened to all the pastel revolutions managed by the meddlers at the National Endowment For Democracy? |
Brief article |
Jun 26, 2010 |
268 |
| The White House is re-evaluating the CIA-run Predator drone program. |
Brief article |
Jun 26, 2010 |
183 |
| Deep background. |
|
Jun 1, 2010 |
536 |
| The National Security Council is increasingly concerned that Israel might attempt to involve the United States in a war against Iran. |
Brief article |
May 1, 2010 |
241 |
| The cost of putting an intelligence officer into the field has skyrocketed. |
Brief article |
May 1, 2010 |
259 |
| Deep background. |
|
Apr 1, 2010 |
571 |
| Intelligence reports did not play any role in President Obama's decision to increase dramatically levels of troops in Afghanistan. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2010 |
196 |
| One of the most corrupt practices engaged in by U.S. presidents is the appointment of campaign contributors as ambassadors to important overseas posts. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2010 |
125 |
| Yet another American spy for Israel appears to have disappeared from the mainstream media and the criminal justice system. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2010 |
218 |
| CIA trainers report that the Agency is having trouble figuring out what to do with all the new officers acquired during the Bush administration's global war on terror. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2010 |
238 |
| The Obama administration is considering cybersecurity legislation that will enable the government to close down the Internet in the event of a national emergency. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2010 |
238 |
| President Obama has declared that the objective of fighting in Af-Pak is to prevent al-Qaeda from using it as a safe haven from which to stage an attack on the United States. |
Brief article |
Nov 1, 2009 |
268 |
| President Obama recognized that America's image in the world was, to say the least, tarnished and made it a principal point of his campaign to insist that he would be able to improve our reputation. |
Brief article |
Nov 1, 2009 |
251 |
| It is not a good time to be working in intelligence. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2009 |
295 |
| Metrics run the war in Afghanistan. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2009 |
203 |
| Deep background. |
|
Sep 1, 2009 |
490 |
| Deep background. |
|
Aug 1, 2009 |
503 |
| Deep background. |
|
Apr 20, 2009 |
477 |
| Deep background. |
|
Mar 23, 2009 |
406 |
| Deep background. |
|
Mar 9, 2009 |
518 |
| Counter intelligence: today's CIA serves contractors and bureaucrats--not the nation. |
|
Feb 23, 2009 |
3143 |
| Egyptian intelligence has shared with the CIA information obtained from monitoring communications between its domestic Islamist group Gama'a al-Islamiyya and suspected al-Qaeda representatives. |
Brief article |
Feb 9, 2009 |
171 |
| British hacker Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the U.S. on terrorism charges. |
Brief article |
Feb 9, 2009 |
196 |
| European states participating in Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force will offer only a lukewarm response to calls by Barack Obama for more troops. |
Brief article |
Feb 9, 2009 |
182 |
| One important ally is not enthusiastic about the change of administration in Washington. |
Brief article |
Jan 12, 2009 |
232 |
| Confidential intelligence assessments relating to Afghanistan are increasingly grim. |
Brief article |
Jan 12, 2009 |
139 |
| Where is Ben-Ami Kadish? |
Brief article |
Jan 12, 2009 |
149 |
| If the Status of Forces Agreement between Iraq and the United States is not further modified or rejected by referendum, it will require a pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq by 2011. |
|
Dec 15, 2008 |
501 |
| Analysts who follow military developments in Iran note that the intermediate range Shahab-3 ballistic missile, developed from North Korean designs over ten years ago, has apparently had its guidance system upgraded. |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2008 |
282 |
| A secret report by the British government's Joint Terrorism Analysis Center reveals that there are "some thousands" of extremists active in the UK, grouped in 200 terrorist networks. |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2008 |
192 |
| Deep background. |
|
Nov 17, 2008 |
491 |
| Ron Suskind's book The Way of the World has been a focus of attention because of its revelation that the White House might have ordered the CIA to forge a letter falsely tying Saddam Hussein to Mohammed Atta. |
|
Nov 3, 2008 |
350 |
| Senior-level officials in the intelligence community are nervous, bracing for an Obama presidency and expecting an end to burgeoning budgets and unquestioning White House support. |
Brief article |
Nov 3, 2008 |
137 |
| Will there be a major terrorist attack soon? |
|
Oct 20, 2008 |
507 |
| CIA Director Michael Hayden shed some light on an old mystery. |
Brief article |
Oct 6, 2008 |
246 |
| Early this summer the intelligence community was also involved in discussions regarding the utility of staging attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to disrupt the Taliban and al-Qaeda. |
Brief article |
Oct 6, 2008 |
273 |
| Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently learned he was being spied upon by Washington. |
Brief article |
Sep 22, 2008 |
151 |
| Could the October surprise happen again? |
|
Sep 22, 2008 |
375 |
| British and American intelligence have concluded that rogue elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence were behind the June 7 attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people and injured 140. |
|
Jul 28, 2008 |
356 |
| Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have frequently been used to air sensational stories that appear to have been produced by Israeli intelligence. |
Brief article |
Jul 28, 2008 |
174 |
| The FBI has been warning some high-profile American Jews that Hezbollah might be targeting them. |
Brief article |
Jul 14, 2008 |
246 |
| The discussions over Hezbollah are part of a larger debate in the intelligence community over terrorism in general. |
Brief article |
Jul 14, 2008 |
249 |
| The spy who loves us: pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line. |
|
Jun 2, 2008 |
3267 |
| Some officers at the Central Intelligence Agency are beginning to wonder if Director Michael Hayden has had a Saul on the road to Damascus experience. |
Brief article |
May 19, 2008 |
274 |
| Intelligence experts are also wondering about Hayden's statement that Syria was close to having the capability to produce one or two nuclear weapons per year prior to the Israeli bombing of a suspected reactor last September. |
Brief article |
May 19, 2008 |
252 |
| Deep background. |
|
Apr 21, 2008 |
517 |
| Israel is the only country in the world that has a policy of "directed assassinations" of its enemies and U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is apparently prepared to go along with Tel Aviv's efforts to conceal that activity. |
Brief article |
Apr 7, 2008 |
291 |
| It appears to be no coincidence that President Bush, Sen. John McCain, Gen. David Petraeus, and vice president Dick Cheney have all again been denouncing Iran. |
Brief article |
Apr 7, 2008 |
126 |
| An unidentified U.S. Navy nuclear submarine stationed in the Red Sea has joined the fight against international terrorism. |
Brief article |
Apr 7, 2008 |
136 |
| Fallon gong: the relentless campaign to bring down a realist. |
|
Apr 7, 2008 |
1595 |
| Deep background. |
|
Mar 24, 2008 |
527 |
| Deep background. |
|
Mar 10, 2008 |
502 |
| Deep background. |
|
Feb 25, 2008 |
520 |
| It is unlikely that Bush would order military action against Iran without a specific casus belli such as the seizure of U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf. |
Brief article |
Feb 11, 2008 |
172 |
| Found in translation: FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets. |
|
Jan 28, 2008 |
2787 |
| Deep background. |
|
Jan 28, 2008 |
492 |
| No more slam dunks: a reality-based assessment of Iran's nuclear capability. |
|
Jan 14, 2008 |
1160 |
| A Lebanese woman, who became a U.S. citizen through a sham marriage and obtained security clearances that led to sensitive jobs with both the FBI and CIA, will likely be deported to Lebanon. |
Brief article |
Dec 17, 2007 |
235 |
| There has been a tendency when drafting counterterrorism legislation to enable criminalization of thoughts and intents in addition to penalizing substantive plans. |
Brief article |
Dec 17, 2007 |
294 |
| Turkish officials and senior military officers are angry about the results of the Nov. 5 meeting in Washington. |
Brief article |
Dec 3, 2007 |
138 |
| On Nov. 2, Al Jazeera's website alleged that the still secret Sept. 6 Israeli air force raid over Syria was actually carried out by the U.S. Air Force. |
Brief article |
Dec 3, 2007 |
191 |
| The National Intelligence Estimate is the intelligence community's "best assessment" of a foreign-policy issue, but the politically manipulated 2002 NIE on Iraq was full of false information and bad assessments that contributed to the Iraq War. |
Brief article |
Dec 3, 2007 |
191 |
| Washington's frantic efforts to stop a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq might well be too little and too late. |
Brief article |
Nov 19, 2007 |
195 |
| Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly concerned over the changing nature of suicide bombing. |
|
Nov 19, 2007 |
320 |
| Deep background. |
|
Nov 5, 2007 |
473 |
| Phantoms over Syria: eveything Israel wants you to know about its secret airstrike. |
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Oct 22, 2007 |
1561 |
| There is an American citizen behind recent al-Qaeda propaganda. |
Brief article |
Oct 8, 2007 |
197 |
| The White House is continuing its campaign to manage public perceptions and increase psychological pressure on Iran. |
Brief article |
Oct 8, 2007 |
115 |
| Saudi Arabia and Israel, using intermediaries including Prince Bandar bin Abd'al Aziz, have reached a tacit understanding regarding Syria. |
Brief article |
Oct 8, 2007 |
211 |
| Iran has moved to the forefront of U.S. policy attention and will remain there through the end of the Bush administration. |
Brief article |
Sep 24, 2007 |
254 |
| No one at the CIA will be punished for 9/11. |
Brief article |
Sep 24, 2007 |
287 |
| At a National Security Council meeting in mid-July, the principals discussed the actions the U.S. should take in the event of a domestic terrorist attack this summer. |
Brief article |
Aug 27, 2007 |
249 |
| Many Americans would be surprised to learn that, thanks to Congress, Israeli companies are allowed to bid on extremely sensitive defense department and intelligence agency projects. |
Brief article |
Aug 27, 2007 |
268 |
