Associated Press
| Jun 18, 2013
President Barack Obama has a quirky concept of transparency, given that "transparent" is how he describes National Security Agency snooping on American phone calls and emails, which was a shock to a nation that first learned of the spying through ...
Al Jazeera English
| Jun 17, 2013
A now-squirming-uncomfortably Britain apparently spied on G20 delegates during meetings in 2009, according to the latest revelation among embarrassing snooping documents leaked by former CIA worker Edward Snowden. Officials, including delegates fr...
Democracy Now!
| Jun 10, 2013
Speaking from Hong Kong where he broke the story of Edward Snowden outing himself as the NSA whistleblower, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald joins Democracy Now! to discuss Snowden's actions and the multiple disclosures he's revealed about gover...
Al Jazeera English
| Jun 10, 2013
The Justice Department is launching a criminal investigation into the leak about widespread National Security Agency email and phone surveillance released by a former CIA contractor. Edward Snowden said he leaked the information to the Guardian be...
Reuters
| May 14, 2013
Russia is kicking out of the country a secretary at the US embassy in Moscow, charging that he's a CIA spy who was attempting to recruit a Russian security agent to work for the US. Russian officials say Ryan Christopher Fogle was found with sever...
Associated Press
| May 14, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Justice Department's decision to seize two months of Associated Press phone records (including for the AP phone in the House of Representatives press gallery) because of one of the "most serious leaks" he ...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 10, 2013
In his new book, "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and US special operations forces into man-huntin...
CNN
| Mar 22, 2013
The CIA appears ready to get out of the targeted killing business and hand control of its controversial drone program to the Pentagon. The move may make the program -- blamed for the deaths of hundreds of civilians -- less secretive, CNN reports.
Euronews
| Mar 7, 2013
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and post-September 11 mouthpiece Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is due to face a Manhattan court on charges of conspiring to kill Americans. The senior al-Qaeda member was brought to New York after Jordanian authorities turned hi...
Reuters
| Mar 7, 2013
US Republican Senator Rand Paul stages one of the longest "talking" filibusters in recent history, blocking a vote on John Brennan's CIA nomination to protest President Obama's policy on the use of drones for targeted killings by holding he floor ...
— Sep 21, 2012 at 05:04 pm
...CIA tiptoed around the EO by helping the NYPD to infiltrate the Muslim society in New York City. David Cohen, a 35-year veteran of the CIA as st...
— Mar 7 at 05:58 am
...by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone, on American soil, without first being charged with a crime, without first be...
— last Wednesday at 08:30 pm
...Michael Morell retired from his post Wednesday, after managing the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair...
The Central Intelligence Agency is one of the principal intelligence-gathering agencies of the United States federal government. An executive agency, it reports to the Director of National Intelligence.
The CIA has three principal activities: gathering information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals; analyzing that information, along with intelligence gathered by other U.S. intelligence agencies, in order to provide national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers; and, upon the request of the President of the United States, carrying out or overseeing covert activities and some tactical operations by its own employees, by members of the U.S. military, or by other partners. It can, for example, exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.
The CIA's headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C. Its employees operate from U.S. embassies and many other locations around the world.
The CIA succeeded the Office of Strategic Services, formed during World War II to coordinate secret espionage activities against the Axis Powers for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. The National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA, affording it "no police or law enforcement functions, either at home or abroad".
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