Outside the Beltway

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

Another step in the ongoing diplomatic showdown over the founder of Wikileaks.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.

Are the Stuxnet and Flame attacks the opening shots in a dangerous new era of secret war?

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

A smoking gun?

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

While unfortunate, the loss of an RQ-170 drone over Iran may not be the intelligence disaster some make it out to be.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

Mike Flynn, the 2-star who blasted military intelligence, is now the 3-star charged with fixing military intelligence.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Flashback: When David Petraeus was simply known as “Peaches” & was a member of the “French Club”

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

So the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan in an attempt to get bin Laden family DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman reports on an alleged secret CIA interrogation facility somewhere in the former Soviet Union.

An ex-CIA agent says that someone in the Bush White House tried to use the agency to “discredit” Iraq War critic Juan Cole.

Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?