List of CIA articles
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001 Mission Unstoppable: Why Is the CIA Running America’s Foreign Policy?
From drone strikes to prison torture, the CIA has been pulling the strings of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11. And if history is a guide, the agency will be calling the shots in the Middle East for years to come.
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Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1, 2011 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) What Pakistan Knew About the Bin Laden Raid
As Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington, I had an intimate view of the Pakistani response to the SEAL Team 6 operation. But I still have a few unanswered questions.
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Intelligence-Final-Flat What Would Thomas Jefferson Do…With the CIA?
Since 1805, U.S. intelligence agencies have been taking out Middle Eastern enemies and failing to predict the next crisis. Isn’t it time for an overhaul?
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Pakistani security personnel measure a wall outside the hideout house of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Obama Administration: Hersh Account of Bin Laden Raid ‘Patently False’
Current and former officials flatly deny journalist's assertions of grand U.S.-Pakistani conspiracy.
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IMG_0507 Searching for Hostages Isn’t CIA’s Top Priority, Insiders Say
The hunt for al Qaeda leaders takes precedence when it comes to intelligence collection.
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470968370_960 Did the New Spooks on the Block Really Fix U.S Intelligence?
Ten years ago, ODNI was pitched as the cure to what ailed America's counterterrorism operations. Did it work?
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169351599obamacrop Kill > Capture
The Obama administration's explicit policy is to capture suspected terrorists, not drone them. So why is there so much droning and so little capturing?
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Biometric Hardware Firms Display Security Solutions To Catch a Spy
Biometrics is making it far more difficult for the U.S. intelligence community to conduct clandestine operations.
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164702450 Could Petraeus’s Plea Deal Boost Edward Snowden and Other Leakers?
David Petraeus got off relatively easy for leaking classified information to Paula Broadwell. His plea deal might have opened the door to lighter sentences for others who have done the same.
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US-CIA-BRENNAN CIA Director Paints a Gloomy Picture of the World, but a Rosy One of His Spy Agency
John Brennan said fighting terrorism today requires close relationships with foreign spies.
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175153105crop Latest Snowden Docs Reveal U.S. Govt. Obsession With Breaking Encryption
The CIA created software that may have been capable of turning millions of apps into surveillance tools.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lo From Cyberspace to Africa, the CIA Looks to Fights of the Future
The agency has spent years struggling to balance its efforts to hunt down individual militants with its traditional focus on spying on foreign governments.
