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Tapped: Senate Passes Bill Expanding Government Spy Powers

Tue Feb. 12, 2008 3:59 PM PST

Army Buried Iraq Post-War Planning Study

Mon Feb. 11, 2008 7:40 AM PST

Bolton Endorses McCain

Sun Feb. 10, 2008 7:55 AM PST

Washington Encounters: Perils of ... the Elevator

Wed Feb. 6, 2008 6:27 PM PST

Amman Dispatch

Sat Jan. 26, 2008 3:06 PM PST

Charlie Wilson's War FY'08: New Defense Authorization Bill's 1,168 Earmarks

Thu Jan. 24, 2008 12:34 AM PST

Destroyed Torture Tapes Inquiry: Once Again, It's All About the Cover Up, Not the Crime

Wed Jan. 16, 2008 4:46 AM PST

Government Secrecy Guru Reflects on Agee's Death

Wed Jan. 9, 2008 11:36 AM PST

CounterSpy: Rogue CIA Officer Philip Agee Dies

Wed Jan. 9, 2008 9:29 AM PST

"Mr. Ten Percent:" Bhutto's Party Picks Her Widower, Son as Successor

Sun Dec. 30, 2007 3:51 PM PST

Street Violence, Successors, and Stability: South Asia Expert Daniel Markey on Picking Up the Pieces After Bhutto Killing

Thu Dec. 27, 2007 1:35 PM PST

Interview with Former U.S. Intelligence Official on Bhutto Assassination

Thu Dec. 27, 2007 9:56 AM PST

Pakistani Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto Killed

Thu Dec. 27, 2007 7:14 AM PST

Cheney's Holiday Party: The CIA Chief's View

Thu Dec. 13, 2007 8:33 AM PST

Under Goss's Leadership, CIA Destroyed Torture Videotapes, CIA Admits

Thu Dec. 6, 2007 4:58 PM PST

New Iran NIE Shocker: Nuke Weapons Program Shut Down in 2003

Mon Dec. 3, 2007 10:19 AM PST

A Glimmer of Optimism on the U.S.-Iran Front?

Sun Nov. 25, 2007 12:21 PM PST

Assassination Jokes, Anthrax Spores, and Russian Mobsters

Tue Nov. 13, 2007 6:47 AM PST

Homeland Insanity

Thu Nov. 8, 2007 7:31 AM PST

Chalabi's What? An Unexpected Tidbit at the End of a Story about a British Murder Investigation

Wed Nov. 7, 2007 12:46 PM PST

Chalabi: Curveball Not Our Fabricator

Tue Nov. 6, 2007 9:22 AM PST

Pakistan Unleashes Teams of Lobbyists on Washington

Tue Nov. 6, 2007 8:54 AM PST

Bush White House Guided Military to Develop Nuclear Strike Plans Against Rogue States, FAS Finds

Mon Nov. 5, 2007 7:30 AM PST

More on Bush PR Maven Hughes' Departure

Fri Nov. 2, 2007 7:05 AM PDT

Senators Warn White House on Iran

Thu Nov. 1, 2007 3:48 PM PDT

Bush PR Maven Hughes Quits for Texas

Wed Oct. 31, 2007 11:34 AM PDT

U.S. Imposes Toughest New Sanctions on Iran Since '79 Embassy Seizure

Thu Oct. 25, 2007 6:49 AM PDT

Freedom Agenda Proponents Depart State Department

Wed Oct. 24, 2007 2:57 PM PDT

State Department Security Chief Resigns over Blackwater

Wed Oct. 24, 2007 12:12 PM PDT

Alexis Debat Update

Tue Oct. 23, 2007 8:40 AM PDT

Reporting the Redactions

Mon Oct. 22, 2007 9:29 AM PDT

US News: "Waxman Hunting for Bush Lies"

Mon Oct. 15, 2007 11:06 AM PDT

Comcast's Fee to the Government and Policy on Domestic Surveillance

Mon Oct. 15, 2007 10:58 AM PDT

House Dem Bill Would Deny Telcos Retroactive Immunity for Domestic Snooping

Fri Oct. 5, 2007 3:40 PM PDT

Senators Write Letters & Demand Torture Docs

Fri Oct. 5, 2007 7:51 AM PDT

More Blackwater Revelations

Mon Oct. 1, 2007 11:35 AM PDT

New Report Says Private Military Contractors Hurt Counterinsurgency Efforts

Thu Sep. 27, 2007 11:06 AM PDT

Intelligence Manipulation Alleged

Thu Sep. 27, 2007 9:17 AM PDT

U.S. Military Officials Say Blackwater Eroding Their Efforts with Iraqis

Wed Sep. 26, 2007 7:07 AM PDT

French FM Kouchner a Class Act with Anti-War Protesters

Fri Sep. 21, 2007 8:53 AM PDT

More on the ABC Debat Affair: Annotating ABC's Jundullah Report

Sat Sep. 15, 2007 9:26 AM PDT

Subject to Debat: What did ABC Know and When Did It Know It?

Fri Sep. 14, 2007 12:41 AM PDT

More on L'Affaire Debat

Thu Sep. 13, 2007 12:14 PM PDT

Congress Asks CIA Lawyer Nominee to be Withdrawn

Thu Sep. 13, 2007 8:20 AM PDT

ABC News Investigates (Itself)

Wed Sep. 12, 2007 1:43 PM PDT

A Military Expert Analyzes Petraeus' Slides

Wed Sep. 12, 2007 1:15 PM PDT

Scientific Proof That Liberals Are Not Smarter

Tue Sep. 11, 2007 1:46 AM PDT

White House Advisor Appears to Taunt Bin Laden

Sun Sep. 9, 2007 4:39 PM PDT

An Unlikely Bush White House Antagonist

Tue Sep. 4, 2007 7:30 AM PDT

Inside AEI's Bunker

The hawks are watching Obama like...well, hawks.

January/February 2009 Issue

From Kurdistan to K Street

Inside Washington's covert foreign policy apparatus, middlemen like Shlomi Michaels are key.

Tue Nov. 18, 2008 1:00 AM PST

Getting Ready for President McBama

Congressional intelligence maven Jane Harman made friends in the Bush administration. Now she wants a top job in the next one.

Mon Nov. 3, 2008 1:00 AM PST

Q: What Do Sarah Palin, Ahmad Chalabi, and the NRA Have in Common?

A: McCain's top foreign policy adviser has tried to sell America on all of them.

Thu Oct. 9, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away

It wasn't the staff mistress that concerned Langley's spymasters when CIA official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo pleaded guilty to wire fraud this week. It was the 27 other charges he faced.

Wed Oct. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Spies Who Love Obama

Why some of Bush's intel professionals are now working for a Democrat—and how they'd reform the CIA. <a href="/washington_dispatch/2008/08/why-cia-veterans-are-scared-of-mccain.html">Part Two in a series</a> on the candidates' national security policies.

Thu Sep. 25, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Q&A: Valerie Plame Wilson

Valerie Plame Wilson, former CIA officer, on why we need to stop outsourcing the CIA, fast.

September/October 2008 Issue

Freedom of the Press?

The Bush administration's preoccupation with serving reporters with subpoenas could have long-lasting effects beyond Washington.

September/October 2008 Issue

Why CIA Veterans Are Scared of McCain

Four years ago, the candidate called the CIA a "rogue organization"; now he's advised by a former Chalabi promoter and Agency basher. No wonder the spooks are spooked.

Fri Aug. 29, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Hunt for Kurdish Oil

Inside the Bush administration's Kurdish oil paradox.

Thu Jul. 31, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Iran Red Lines

Mother Jones has learned that a parade of high-level Israeli officials are on their way to the White House over the next two weeks to discuss Iran policy. Here's where the two countries differ on what to do next.

Thu Jul. 10, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Persian Paradox

Why is so much sensitive US military technology winding up in Iran?

Wed Jul. 9, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Shalom, Hamas

Tweedy, unapologetically hawkish ex-spymaster Efraim Halevy may just be the only Israeli capable of legitimizing talks with Hamas.

July/August 2008 Issue

Three Days In Rome

Does an investigation of the Pentagons channel to an Iran Contra arms dealer continue? A Mother Jones intel scoop.

Fri Jun. 20, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Cocktail Napkin Plan for an Iran Coup

More on the covert meetings between Pentagon officials and shady Iranian expats, plus other intel details from a new Senate report.

Sat Jun. 7, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

James Woolsey, Hybrid Hawk

The former CIA director turned clean-energy enthusiast is part geek, part zealot—and all iconoclast.

May/June 2008 Issue

Sheldon Adelson: The Right's White Knight?

As the Adelson-backed Freedom's Watch mounts a pro-Petraeus campaign to coincide with the Iraq commander's congressional testimony, some conservatives are grumbling about the group and its bullheaded benefactor.

Tue Apr. 8, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Central Intelligence Anxiety

How the Bush administration left the spooks to twist in the wind

March/April 2008 Issue

Israel's Mossad, Out of the Shadows

Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy explains why he advocates talks with Hamas.

Tue Feb. 19, 2008 1:00 AM PST

The Hawks' Last Hurrah?

Washington hawks warn Israeli policymakers that they could be on their own on Iran.

Fri Feb. 8, 2008 1:00 AM PST

Freedom Fighters: The State of the Bush Administration's Democracy-Promotion Push

Even as the president makes a last-ditch speech to resurrect his "freedom agenda," the policy warriors who fought to advance his vision to democratize the Middle East have been sidelined.

Fri Jan. 11, 2008 1:00 AM PST

Operation Stop Talking

John Kiriakou called it hypocritical for the White House and Congress to point fingers at the CIA for its harsh interrogation techniques. Now his former employer, with the help of the Justice Department, is trying to shut him up.

Fri Dec. 21, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Iran NIE: Non-Nuclear Fallout

The response to the intelligence community's recent assessment troubled policy wonks on both sides of the Iran debate, all of whom agree that a threat remains.

Tue Dec. 18, 2007 1:00 AM PST

The Spook Stays in the Picture

Charlie Wilson's War is only the latest in a string of movies brought to you by CIA insider Milt Bearden.

Thu Dec. 13, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Iran Hawks Down?

The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program puts hardliners on the defensive.

Tue Dec. 4, 2007 1:00 AM PST

The Elephant in Annapolis' Living Room

The official stars of the peace talks were Israel and Palestine. But much talk focused on absent Iran.

Thu Nov. 29, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Focus Grouping War with Iran

A recent Virginia focus group test-marketed language to get tougher on Iran. UPDATED.

Mon Nov. 19, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Crisis in Pakistan

A former U.S. government official in the region addresses president Pervez Musharraf's state of emergency and the country's subsequent unrest. [A frequent traveler to the region, the interviewee asked to be identified only as a former U.S. official.]

Mon Nov. 5, 2007 1:00 AM PST