Wikileaks has published its most recent catch: a brief February 2010 CIA memo analyzing risks to homeland security if the United States is perceived as an "exporter of terrorism."

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having interest in Top Chef Season 7 DC, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the season is now screening. God save the long awaited exile!

You've heard of Eat, Pray Love? Well, this live-blogging party is called Drink, Watch, Post. It only takes an hour and you never leave the couch—but it's a spiritually fulfilling journey all the same. Join us and see!

Valerie Plame Wilson stopped by this morning to talk about her book and the movies she's involved in. Unfortunately for her, Greg Kelly pushed her buttons when he asked about the scandal that ended her CIA career.

Washington Post's SpyTalk blog offers a most unusual revelation: The CIA faked a video of Osama bin Laden bragging about "conquests with boys," and wanted to "flood Iraq" with a fake sex tape of Saddam Hussein banging a young boy.

Pakistan's tribal areas — The Times Square firecracker bomber allegedly trained there, various Taliban factions and Al Qaeda operate there, and guess what? We're at war there, using flying robots! Here's a quick guide to America's South Asia Robot War.

Good news? CIA Deputy Director Steve Kappes is retiring. Everyone on the Hill liked this guy, who basically runs the agency's day-to-day operations, but Washingtonian recently pointed out that his hands are covered in blood.

President Barack Obama has personally ordered the assassination of a U.S. citizen. Yep! The C.I.A. is authorized to kill cleric Anwar al-Awlaki wherever and whenever they find him. At home, on vacation, maybe right behind you. Crypto-fascists are thrilled!

John Yoo, the former Bush lawyer who helped the CIA skirt laws on torture, is happy to be back teaching law at UC Berkeley, where he refers to his neighbors as "a natural history museum of the 1960s." [LAT]

If you're looking for a good newspaper job, kids, try arguing for the most ethically indefensible thing you can possibly think of using faulty logic, blatant falsehoods, and flagrant omissions. It worked for Bush speechwriter and torture-lover Marc Thiessen!

The ongoing cyber war between the military and the CIA is getting nasty, with the agency crying foul after losing its favorite terrorist message board. And now Saudi princes and Texans are being dragged into the fight, too.

The Pentagon is upset with the non-profit website WikiLeaks.org for publishing documents it says are a "threat to the US Army" — like hiding Gitmo prisoners from the Red Cross — and for being supported by the CIA. Huh? [NYT]

An Iraqi airline employee worked closely with the 9/11 hijackers. Neocons used him to justify the war in Iraq—not realizing that the CIA had attempted to recruit him as a turncoat, perhaps because they knew he was gay.

The New York Times reported this morning that an off-the-books intelligence operation may be assassinating people in Pakistan with the help of a sketchy former spook—the same guy that the Times hired to save reporter David Rohde's life.

A small plane has crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, that houses local FBI, CIA, and IRS offices. The scene is 20 miles from the nearest airport, and witnesses say the plane "hit the building full-throttle."

Charlie Wilson's war is over. Wilson, the Texas congressman whose love of booze, cocaine, women, and secret CIA-run wars supporting Osama bin Laden's friends in Afghanistan was memorialized in a film starring Tom Hanks, has died of a heart attack.

a sign spotted by Salon's Mike Madden who was the pool reporter covering Barack Obama's visit there today.

This is Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian triple-agent who killed seven CIA agents (and Blackwater contractors!) last week. It is quite the story!

A new CIA secret prison has been found. In a luxury horseriding center in Lithuania. Hey, just because you're detaining people illegally and torturing them doesn't mean you can't enjoy some nice surroundings.