US intelligence officers have been busy interviewing Osama bin Laden's three widows in recent days, one of whom was shot during the raid on the Pakistani compound. Reportedly, the women have been "hostile" toward their interrogators. Wonder why!
President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was called to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, and stupidly tried to give an honest assessment of difficult foreign policy situations in response to questions asking for that. Now he's in big trouble, or at least Lindsey Graham wants him to resign.
American government officials now say that Raymond Davis, the American man arrested in Pakistan last month after shooting two men dead in Lahore, was part of a covert, C.I.A.-led team of operatives, according to The New York Times.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, an Iraqi defector under Saddam Hussein whose claims about the former dictator's mobile biological weapons programs were used heavily in the Bush Administration's public case for war, has an interesting story to tell everyone. The source, who, under the alias "Curveball" in intelligence reports, provided a foundation for Secretary of State Colin Powell's famous speech to the United Nations a month before the Iraq invasion, admits that he just made it up to get Hussein out of power.
In a very scientific new science study, researchers found that good-looking people (somehow that was determined, scientifically) had higher IQs than Johnny Weak-Chins or Suzie Beak-Noses. So now we know for sure that hot people are inherently better, especially men.
Hey, military people leaking sexy secret documents: Your counterparty could be an undercover federal agent who'll arrest you! So it went with petty officer Bryan Minkyu Martin, who's now in custody at Fort Bragg after a transaction gone awry.
Irving Kristol, father to Fox News talking head Bill Kristol, was the intellectual architect of neoconservatism, a fierce anti-communist, and staunch Republican. So why did FBI counterintelligence agents investigate his contacts with a suspected Soviet agent in the 1980s?
A diplomatic cable released today by Wikileaks reveals that Canadian television has some major beef with America. We obviously have to bomb Canada now. But first, read this guide to Canada's favorite America-bashing entertainment.
According to new research, dogs' brains have grown larger at a faster rate than cats' brains, apparently because dogs live in large social groups. Does this mean that dogs are smarter than cats?
Some strains of the intestinal bacterium E. coli can kill you. This one can solve Sudoku puzzles. I don't know which one is scarier.
The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good book, no?
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."
The Washington Post has released the first installment of its hyped two-year investigation into post-9/11 intelligence and national security growth, from William Arkin and the legendary Dana Priest. It's a freaking tome and will be playing all week. Be terrified.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, the nation's top-ranking intelligence officer, resigned on Thursday, partly because no one liked him very much, and partly because no one really knows what his job even entails. Welcome to Washington, D.C.!
Bill Kristol thinks Barack Obama will swing by Afghanistan for a surprise visit on his way back from Copenhagen. Sounds reasonable. But Bill: Why all the detail?
You sorta feel sorry for Leon Panetta. He has no intelligence experience, he's taking control of a dispirited and publicly shamed CIA, and Justice and Obama apparently blindsided him with this investigation business. But on the other hand...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' Career and Technical Education Department spells education "eduction." Yes, seriously.
Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a prosecutor to determine whether there is enough evidence to prosecute CIA interrogators who tortured and murdered detainees. This will not please Leon Panetta!
All that goodwill Obama whipped up in the Muslim world yesterday? That may be over. A CIA station chief apparently drugged and raped at least two women in Algeria, ABC reports.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan (left), the Iraqi refugee code-named "Curveball" whose nonsense reports about Saddam Hussein's mobile bio weapons labs to German Intelligence officers helped pave the way for invasion, is speaking publicly for the first time. And he's pissed. "'For what I've done, I should be treated like a king,' he said outside a cramped, low-rent apartment he shares with his family [somewhere in Germany]. Instead, the Iraqi informant [...] has flipped burgers at McDonald's and Burger King, washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant and baked pretzels in an all-night bakery. He also has faced withering international scorn for peddling discredited intelligence that helped spur an invasion of his native country. Now, in his first public comments, the 41-year-old engineer from Baghdad complains that the CIA and other spy agencies are blaming him for their mistakes."
