C.I.A.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 14 people, including eight Americans and an Afghan in a suicide attack at a CIA base in the volatile east, and five Canadians in the south. Read More

Our Government officials new about this guy and knew that plans were being made; but they did not do anything about it. Read More

(ChattahBox)—The deadly mire that is Afghanistan, took the lives of eight American CIA agents, four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian journalist on Wednesday during two separate blasts, which the Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the next day. Read More

The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week's attempted airline bombing. Read More

The White House this month issued a classified order to resolve mounting frictions between the nation's intelligence director and the CIA over issues including how the agency conducts covert operations, U.S. officials said. Read More

Digby mentioned yesterday the video of Omar Khadr , the first we have of an interrogation at Guantanamo, sobbing uncontrollably as he attempts to tell his story to Canadian investigators. Read More

The Register, citing this Playboy article , reports that a Nevada man named Dennis Montgomery was able in 2003 to connive his way into a position of respectability at the CIA on the basis of his company's claimed ability, using software, to "detect and decrypt 'barcodes' in broadcasts by Al Jazeera, the Qatari news station." Read More