Will Obama Torture Apologists Make a Triumphant Return to Joe Biden's White House?
His rumored candidate for CIA director, Michael Morell, is raising alarms.
His rumored candidate for CIA director, Michael Morell, is raising alarms.
New documentary explains why installing the shah in 1953 led to ruinous American covert operations throughout the Cold War and beyond.
The very idea that our intelligence agencies could keep encryption bypasses secret is absurd.
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
Amazon Prime's new show attempts to dramatize the "enhanced interrogations" that took place under President George W. Bush as well as the Obama administration's failure to hold anybody to account.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
The CIA and its defenders insisted that torture would help keep America safe. They were wrong.
A judge rules whistleblower’s failure to subject Permanent Record to pre-publication review violates non-disclosure agreement.
Plus: Trump slashes number of refugees allowed in next year, big cities are shedding millennials, and more...
Snowden didn’t subject his autobiography Permanent Record to pre-publication review by the federal government that’s also trying to throw him in prison.
A new movie, The Report, documents the Senate struggle to inform the public about our wartime waterboarding and "enhanced interrogations."
The Mueller report is a timely reminder not to take John Brennan and James Clapper seriously.
This is not the first time generic "yaaassss slay kween" feminism has been used to obscure an awful person's record.
What a conspiracy theorist, a Vietnam War deserter, and a Trump adviser have in common
What could go wrong with federalizing the corporate charter process and putting bureaucrats in charge of long-term business thinking?
Brennan was awful and defended the indefensible, but Trump is clearly trying to silence critics.
This will have potentially serious consequences for those investigating election meddling.
The former head of our intelligence agencies thinks we're all easily manipulated rubes. Is that why he lied to the Senate?
Many aren't willing to ignore her ties to torture just because of her sex.
As the Senate prepares to vote on Gina Haspel's nomination, senators call for more transparency on torture and her role in it.
From ripping families apart to nominating a torture-enabler as CIA director, the administration is calling the GOP's bluff, Reason editors argue.
Haspel's defenders say she was just following protocol when she oversaw the waterboarding of a suspected al-Qaeda operative. That's not good enough.
"It says that it's OK to engage in war crimes and crimes against humanity, and if you do it, you'll get promoted."
Democrats are rehabilitating the deservedly poor reputations of surveillance-state officials who were caught lying to the American people
Paul says Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to be the next secretary of state, will repeat the foreign policy mistakes of the past two decades.
Secretary of State replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who is replaced by torture aficionado Gina Haspel.
Democrat Adam Schiff might be right that GOP operatives want to derail the Russia probe. But the FBI and Justice Department lost credibility a long time ago.
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
The Senate would lose an authoritarian who wants to crack down on immigrants and fight the drug war. But he's also a hawk in favor of foreign interventions.
Now that it's in Trump's hands, even the illusion of responsibility is fading.
New History Channel series explores the dark corners of prohibition and takes viewers on great, freaky trip.
Supreme Court turns away transparency lawsuit trying to force release of Senate report.
A war on WikiLeaks will ultimately threaten a free press.
Vault 7 serves as another reminder of the inherent folly in building government-mandated backdoors into secure systems.
Reports show possible loosening of restrictions on strikes, more CIA participation.
'Fundamentally, security is more important than surveillance.'
Agency hoards infiltration tools and puts our information at risk of exposure.
From using smart TVs for spying to hoarding IT vulnerabilities
Q&A with Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake.
Podcast talks IC drama, media idiocy about uninviting Kellyanne Conway, and Thomas L. Friedman's awfulness
Who the hell is really running Washington? Explore the topic on tonight's Kennedy at 8 p.m. ET on Fox Business Network
The Trump administration can always outsource its dirty work to allies.
The secret prisons used by the CIA during the Bush administration-where torture took place-could get a Trump-era reboot.
Sen. Rand Paul the sole GOP opposition.
Analyzing the president-elect's unusual conflicts before Inauguration Day, on 8 p.m. ET on Fox Business Network
Coverage of third-party candidates presented as attempt to discredit American democracy.
Public hearings and documents, not anonymous sources describing unreleased reports, should drive any substantive discussion.