CIA
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Last year there were 90 - this year there are 102. Stars on the wall at CIA headquarters. 12 Stars were added yesterday to commemorate the agency\'s fallen heroes. Seven of the 12 died in Khost, Afghanistan last December. The other five of those killed died engaged in clandestine operations. According to CIA Director Leon Panetta, the sensitivity of their work requires that the nature and their names of course remain classified and secret.
June 07, 2010 -
Intelligence community says developers should keep users\' needs at the forefront of any project. Other key best practices are to think big, start small and scale fast. Intelligence employees say Web 2.0 tools slowly are being institutionalized across the community.
May 05, 2010 -
Osama bin Laden had no idea the U.S. would hit al-Qaida as hard as it has since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a former bin Laden associate tells National Security Correspondent JJ Green in an exclusive interview.
April 28, 2010 -
Health Insurer Notifies More Than 409,000 Of Potential Breach
April 23, 2010 -
A top veteran CIA officer is retiring after a sometimes tumultuous career with the agency.
April 15, 2010 -
What\'s the difference between Russian intelligence and U.S. intelligence today? A source with knowledge of both CIA and Russia\'s SVR, formerly known as the KGB says the SVR has an unlimited supply of money to recruit spies. The source also says it depends on the quality and amount of information a spy can provide. Still the source says, the SVR tries to save money and says American turncoats Aldrich Aimes, and Robert Hanssen could have gotten ten times more than they got from the Russian intelligence.
April 05, 2010 -
Some have asked the question: following the attacks of 9/11, did America violate its own principles, and Constitution, in response to fears of terrorism? As we’ve had in our news, charges are being made against…
August 27, 2009 -
The intelligence community is buzzing over news that CIA Director Leon Panetta threatened to quit during a shouting match recently at the White House over the news that Attorney General Eric Holder might pursue cases against CIA personnel involved in interrogation. It\'s no secret that there has been tension in the intelligence community, but this is the first crack in the armor, if true. WTOP has not confirmed that the shouting match took place, but Panetta\'s letter to employees at the CIA made clear that he was supporting them regardless of what happens.
August 24, 2009 -
As FederalNewsRadio has been telling you, documents from the Justice Department have been released detailing certain interrogation techniques used on prisoners by the CIA. The papers offer the fullest account to date of Bush administration…
April 17, 2009 -
The Obama administration will not prosecute CIA officers who participated in harsh interrogations that critics say crossed the line into torture, according to CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta. The move was considered a “backing down” by…
February 10, 2009 -
The knock on Leon Panetta is he is not a member of the intelligence community. Nevertheless, today, his nomination to head the CIA is taken up by the Senate Intelligence Committee. CNN’s Dick Uliano has…
February 05, 2009 -
President Obama ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Prison within a year. The president signed an executive order today directing the CIA to stop holding terrorism suspects for months and years and to now…
January 22, 2009 -
Jamie Misick, former Deputy Director for Intelligence Former Illinois Congressman Tim Roemer California Congresswoman Jane Harmon Former CIA deputy director of Operations Jack Devine Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel Those are just some of the names…
December 11, 2008 -
Some of the names that have been discussed as possible nominees to succeed Michael Hayden as the next director of the CIA.
December 11, 2008