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Senate staff disputes ex-CIA official's defense of torture
WASHINGTON - The former deputy CIA director made a series of factual misstatements while defending the agency's harsh treatment of detainees in his recent book, Senate intelligence committee staffers...
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MISSOULA, Montana - There's a painting hanging in the Central Intelligence Agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters called "Khampa Airlift to Tibet."
View ArticleJudge unseals letters of support filed in Petraeus case
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Political, military and international figures are among the nearly three dozen people who filed letters of support for former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was...
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Retired CIA operative becomes breakout spy novelist
WASHINGTON - When Jason Matthews retired after more than three decades as a CIA operative, writing fiction proved a form of therapy.
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Obama's counterterrorism policy facing mounting criticism
WASHINGTON - At the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, it was a cause for celebration: Meticulous intelligence analysis backed by Hellfire missiles had paid off, once again.
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US officials say they can tell if Iran is cheating on deal
WASHINGTON - Despite a track record of misjudgments about weapons of mass destruction, U.S. intelligence officials say they are confident they can verify Iran's compliance with the recently completed...
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Jeb Bush leaves door open for use of torture by government
DAVENPORT, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government.
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Couple in Petraeus-related suit to seek reporters' testimony
WASHINGTON - A couple suing over leaks in the federal investigation that led to CIA Director David Petraeus' resignation intend to subpoena at least two journalists in an attempt to compel testimony...
View ArticleFormer CIA leaders release book defending brutal tactics
WASHINGTON - Former senior CIA officials instrumental in extracting information from al-Qaida prisoners through what most Americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending their...
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Intel officials say upbeat reports on IS didn't change views
WASHINGTON - Whether or not the U.S. Central Command was sugarcoating intelligence to create the appearance of progress in the fight against Islamic State militants, the command's upbeat reports didn't...
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Petraeus apologizes for giving classified info to mistress
WASHINGTON - Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus apologized to Congress on Tuesday for sharing classified information with his biographer-mistress, then pivoted from personal to battlefield policy and...
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Journalists subpoenaed in lawsuit over Petraeus scandal
WASHINGTON - Nine journalists were issued subpoenas Tuesday as part of a lawsuit over the Obama administration investigation that led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus.
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Rare US success in Syria, Iraq: Finding senior militants
WASHINGTON - A dedicated manhunt by the CIA, the National Security Agency and the military's Joint Special Operations Command has been methodically finding and killing senior militants in Syria and...
View ArticleACLU sues psychologists over CIA interrogation tactics
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday sued two former Air Force psychologists who designed a CIA program that used harsh interrogation techniques to elicit intelligence from...
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Correction: CIA-Brennan Emails story
WASHINGTON - In a story Oct. 22 about the release of CIA Director John Brennan's personal emails, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the CIA said the posting of the emails was a crime. The...
View ArticleFormer CIA manager Sam Faddis to announce congressional bid
DAVIDSONVILLE, Maryland - Former CIA manager Sam Faddis is scheduled to announce his campaign for Congress.
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He jumped into Normandy, ran spies in Moscow, retired at 90
WASHINGTON - Hugh Montgomery never wrote a memoir. That just wasn't done among his generation of spies.
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Showtime documetary collects all of the former CIA chiefs
NEW YORK - After making a documentary about presidential chiefs of staff two years ago, filmmaker Jules Naudet joked about focusing on another important government job where it would seem next to...
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Why the 9/11 attack case grinds on so slowly at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Five men accused of directing and financing the Sept. 11 plot were back in their high-security cellblock at the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a pretrial...
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As military handles drone strikes, less scrutiny by Congress
WASHINGTON - Putting the U.S. military in charge of drone strikes in Iraq and Syria has effectively reduced congressional scrutiny of those sensitive operations, leaving some activists, lawmakers and...
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