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In this June 23, 2011, file photo, CIA Director nominee Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee during a hearing on his nomination. The Justice Department said Tuesday, March 3, 2015, that the former top Army general has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials. A statement from the agency says a plea agreement has been filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., the hometown of Paula Broadwell, the general&#8217;s biographer and former mistress. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama officials consulting David Petraeus on Islamic State fight

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh, flanked by Army Chief of Staff Gen Raymond Odierno, right, and Maj. Gen. William E. Rapp, the Army legislative liaison, arrives to update members of the Senate Armed Services Committee about the deadly shooting rampage by a soldier yesterday at Fort Hood in Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014. An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness was the gunman who opened fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide, in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were slain in 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Army’s withdrawal of officer’s Silver Star sparks ire of Congress

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014 file photo, CIA Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the spy agency, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable, enhance the agency&#8217;s cyber capabilities and shore up espionage gaps exacerbated by a decade of focus on counterterrorism. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

John Brennan, CIA director: Social media ‘greatly amplifies’ terror threat

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Retired Marine Corps Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a close military adviser to President Obama, was reportedly the target of a Justice Department criminal investigation into leaks to The New York Times. (Associated Press)

Obama protects generals in leak probes while low-level employees go to jail

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions at a news conference at the United Nations, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Clinton conceded that she should have used a government email to conduct business as secretary of state, saying her decision was simply a matter of "convenience." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Public officials break laws to avoid scrutiny

By Victor Davis Hanson

CIA Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., in this Dec. 11, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

CIA’s Brennan to overhaul spy agency’s management structure

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014 file photo, CIA Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the spy agency, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable, enhance the agency&#8217;s cyber capabilities and shore up espionage gaps exacerbated by a decade of focus on counterterrorism. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

CIA creates new office to counter cyber threats

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state, said Libya was in imminent danger of a humanitarian crisis — her main argument for going to war. U.S. intelligence couldn't corroborate her warning and lost key sources with the fall of the Gadhafi regime. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s war on Libya lost terror intelligence

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Two Jordanian men walk past graffiti depicting the flag of the Islamic State group with Arabic that reads, "There is only one God and Muhammad is his prophet," in the city of Ma'an, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Islamic State expands beyond Syria, Iraq as recruits create global network of terror cells

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Abu Zubaydah, an alleged facilitator for al Qaeda, has received so-called victim status in the criminal investigation into the CIA prison in Poland. (Associated Press)

Poland to pay terror suspects al-Nashiri, Zubaydah, $262K; men held at secret CIA prison

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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MICHAEL HAYDEN: Farewell to Mark Mansfield, a ‘happy warrior,’ CIA spokesman

By Mike Hayden

Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling leaves the Alexandria Federal Courthouse on Monday in Alexandria, Va., with his wife, Holly, after being convicted on all nine counts he faced of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter. (Associated Press)

Jeffrey Sterling, ex-CIA officer, convicted of leaking secrets to reporter

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

Mark Mansfield. (Image: CIA)

Mark Mansfield, childhood actor turned CIA spokesman, dies at 56

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. arrives to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014, after a closed hearing to examine intelligence matters. The Senate Intelligence Committee's expected vote to approve declassifying part of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects puts the onus on the CIA and a reluctant White House to speed the release of one of the most definitive accounts about the government's actions after the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Dianne Feinstein’s CIA hacking narrative countered by board review

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

David Cohen, the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, talks about actions the Treasury Department is taking to combat financing for the Islamic State group during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington on Oct. 23, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama tabs David Cohen as CIA deputy director

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis is shown in this undated photo. Brandeis served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. (AP Photo)

BRUCE FEIN: Protecting the press within the journalistic sphere

By Bruce Fein

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, following her release of a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities after the 9/11 terror attacks. Feinstein branded the findings a "stain on the nation's history." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Feinstein urges changes to avoid repeat of CIA torture

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

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

BRUCE FEIN: It’s time to abolish the CIA

By Bruce Fein

Illustration on tips for international travel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DANIEL PIPES: Edward Snowden reveals CIA secrets on international airport screening

By Daniel Pipes

This undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Navy SEALs seen through the greenish glow of night vision goggles, as they prepare to breach a locked door in Osama Bin Laden's compound in Columbia Pictures' hyper-realistic new action thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

Osama bin Laden capture: CIA harsh interrogations crucial, Republicans say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times