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Citizens’ group seeks US accountability for CIA renditions

By EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

Mikhail Lesin (right) served as a top press aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin until 2009. As his broadcast network RT expanded, he had a falling-out with Mr. Putin, one American intelligence source said, and he moved his family to California. (REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS SERVICE)

Mikhail Lesin’s death swung attention to Russia after Obama’s intelligence fiasco

By Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson answers a reporters question about North Korea while he meets with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Rex Tillerson to be replaced by Trump with Mike Pompeo: Report

By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson answers a reporters question about North Korea while he meets with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. The White House is discussing a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo, according to an administration official, who sought anonymity to discuss internal thinking. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump weighs plan to oust Tillerson, put CIA’s boss at State

By JOSH LEDERMAN and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Foundation of the CIA’ by Richard E. Schroeder

By Joseph Goulden

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 file photo, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. The International Criminal Court prosecutor Bensouda has asked judges to authorize an investigation into various allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, asserted against the U.S. military, CIA, the Taliban and by Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Prosecutor seeks probe of US personnel in Afghanistan

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017, file photo, Christopher R. Sharpley appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee to be confirmed as the CIA inspector general, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two former CIA employees are accusing Sharpley, the man nominated to be the CIA's chief watchdog, of being less than candid when he testified to Congress that he didn’t know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Confirmation slows for nominee to serve as top CIA watchdog

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017, file photo, Christopher R. Sharpley appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee to be confirmed as the CIA inspector general, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two former CIA employees are accusing Sharpley, the man nominated to be the CIA's chief watchdog, of being less than candid when he testified to Congress that he didn’t know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Lawmakers question whether key CIA nominee misled Congress

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC)

Seoul interfaith rally calls for reunification of Korean peninsula

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 3, 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former intel chiefs denounce CIA director meeting with proponent of alternative Russia hack theory

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, with CIA Director John Brennan, center, and FBI Director James Comey, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on cyberthreats. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russia meddling report to Trump raises questions of motive

By Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The former US National Security Agency, NSA, employee William Binney smiles behind water bottles as he waits for his questioning by the German parliamentary NSA investigation committee in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 3, 2014. The committee investigates the NSA surveillance activities, that also included the tapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Trump urged Mike Pompeo to discuss alternative DNC breach theory with Russian hack skeptic

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

CIA dog’s replacement was trained in State College

By LEON VALSECHI and Centre Daily Times - Associated Press

The Latest: JFK files say CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’

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In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

CIA releases files from Osama bin Laden raid

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, exposed the practice of "unmasking" by Obama aides and flushed out the source of payments for the scandalous anti-Trump dossier that drove the Russia collusion narrative. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Devin Nunes shifts Russia dossier focus from Donald Trump to Democrats

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump to withhold some secret JFK assassination records

By Laurie Kellman and Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

This image provided by the Warren Commission is an overhead view of President John F. Kennedy's car in Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and was the commission's Exhibit No. 698. Special agent Clinton J. Hill is shown riding atop the rear of the limousine. President Donald Trump is caught in a push-pull on new details of Kennedy’s assassination, jammed between students of the killing who want every scrap of information and intelligence agencies that are said to be counseling restraint. How that plays out should be known on Oct. 26, 2017, when long-secret files are expected to be released. (Warren Commission via AP)

JFK files: Thousands released but Trump holds back others

By CALVIN WOODWARD and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this Nov. 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo)

On JFK documents, Trump squeezed over disclosure

By LAURIE KELLMAN and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks during the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) National Security Summit in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Pompeo says the North Koreans are closer than they were five years ago and will be closer within five months unless the U.S. and its allies succeed in stopping the nuclear ambitions of leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CIA ‘working to take down’ WikiLeaks threat, agency chief says

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times