United States Central Intelligence Agency

Latest Stories

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a joint press conference with the President of the Philippines, Benigno S. Aquino III., as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

AP EXCLUSIVE: CIA halts spying in Europe

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Mark and Kate Quigley shows Glen Doherty, who died in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 12, 2012. Doherty's heirs, led by his mother Barbara Doherty, filed a claim in September 2014 seeking damages from two government agencies, alleging inadequate security at the U.S. diplomatic post and nearby CIA compound in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Quigley Family, File)

Family of former SEAL killed in Benghazi to sue State Dept., CIA for $2M

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Mark and Kate Quigley shows Glen Doherty, who died in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 12, 2012. Doherty's heirs, led by his mother Barbara Doherty, filed a claim in September 2014 seeking damages from two government agencies, alleging inadequate security at the U.S. diplomatic post and nearby CIA compound in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Quigley Family, File)

Family of CIA contractor slain in Benghazi may sue

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

A check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Inside the Ring: CIA goes to war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-CA, and CIA Director John O. Brennan.

FEIN: Fire CIA Director John Brennan

By Bruce Fein

FILE - In this undated file photo posted on Monday, June 30, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from extremist Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. In staging airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in Syria, the U.S. may find itself in a confounding morass teeming with jihadis, rebel rivalries and sectarian hatred. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

Islamic State now 30,000 fighters strong, CIA says

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Associated Press)

Rep. Jan Schakowsky discounts threat from Islamic State

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington. Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week to meet with Mideast leaders about confronting threats from the Islamic State militant group. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the meetings with will focus on how the region can contribute to a new crackdown against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

US fears Islamic State group attack on Jordan

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The Pentagon says a Libyan militant accused in a deadly attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is in U.S. custody. The capture of Ahmed Abu Khattala marks the first time the U.S has apprehended one of the accused perpetrators in the 2012 attack. Khattala is a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of the terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)

U.S. weighs security needs at overseas embassies

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Image: Fox News screenshot

U.S. security team from secret CIA annex: We were told to stand down in Benghazi

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Rockets propelled by RD-180 engines transport U.S. national security satellites to space. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. military dependence on Russian rocket engines raises security concerns

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Monday, June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Ex-CIA operative: Islamic State is in the U.S. and ‘they’re capable of striking’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Torture compromised national security

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let torture report speak for itself

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story’

By Joseph C. Goulden

Current and former intelligence officials are furious at the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat. They say the panel did not interview the senior managers of the interrogation program launched after the Sept. 11 attacks nor the CIA directors who oversaw it. (Associated Press)

Senate panel didn’t interview CIA directors, key managers for torture report

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Retired Major General Antonio Taguba (Associated Press)

HAYDEN: Democrats ‘shaping’ attack on CIA interrogation program

By Mike Hayden

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Zhivago Affair’

By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Spies, Patriots, and Traitors’

By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washinton Times

This Aug. 1, 2014, photo shows President Barack Obama as he smiles near the conclusion of a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. President Barack Obama is starting his birthday weekend with a round of golf before escaping to the Maryland mountains. Obama turns 53 on Monday. In what's become an annual birthday tradition, he's joining friends on the green for an early morning round at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. He'll board Marine One later Saturday for the short helicopter flight to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CURL: Obama making fools of the media

By Joseph Curl