intelligence agencies

Author of Pre-9/11 Memo Bush Ignored Talks Orlando—and the Fight Against Terror

‘With Al Qaeda [in the late summer of 2001] we figured out a terrorist attack was coming because we had all this crescendo of information coming in for a year, and we could say that we knew they intended to attack and that they probably had the capability, but we didn't know who or when.‘

By Sheila Weller

Why Does Anyone Believe the CIA Chief’s Hackers Are Teens?

Are the people who hacked the CIA Chief's AOL account really teenagers? The very fact that they say so should make it doubtful.

By Brady Dale

American and British Anti-Terror Efforts Possibly Compromised By ‘Massive’ Data Theft

An unnamed IT drone working for Switzerland’s NDB spy agency may have endangered counter-terrorism efforts around the world by stealing

By Steve Huff

American and British Anti-Terror Efforts Possibly Compromised By ‘Massive’ Data Theft

By Steve Huff

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