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Gina Haspel Faces Tough Confirmation to Head C.I.A.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: CIA TV
Arts, Culture & Media
For A TV Spy Show, The CIA Approves The Scripts
A Free Syrian Army fighter looks out through a window in rebel-held Al-Yadudah village, in Deraa Governorate, Syria, on July 19.
Conflict
Syrian rebels say they feel ‘betrayed’ by the US ending its aid
When President Trump spoke at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia in January, he reportedly brought along his own staff to clap and cheer.
Global Politics
Trump tried to ice out the intelligence community from his effort to create a back channel to Russia
Ben Carson testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be secretary of housing and urban development, on Jan. 12, 2017.
Global Politics
Watch live: Senate confirmation hearings for Defense, CIA and HUD
Donald Trump
Global Politics
Trump’s public disagreement with intelligence community unprecedented and ‘adversarial’
Murals for DC's Chilean terror attack
Conflict
A state-sponsored terror attack struck DC 40 years ago — and the proof is finally coming out
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in an undated file photo.
Justice
‘My father lost his life through a bombing, by agents of a man who Henry Kissinger supported’
Spying
Espionage in the Age of Terror
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Waiting for someone inside a former Taliban-reinforced cave.
Books
The story of the 20-something CIA officer who took on the Taliban
Justifying Torture, Kurt Cobain’s Unseen Life, and The Daunting World of Modern Love
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Justifying Torture, Kurt Cobain’s Unseen Life, and The Daunting World of Modern Love
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A view of sensor arrays at a former NSA monitoring base in Bad Aibling in Bavaria, Germany.
Justice
The NSA’s bulk collection program may soon end, but they may not care
A girl cries before receiving polio vaccine drops at a government children's hospital in Peshawar on March 3, 2015. Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio.
Health
Facing a determined opposition, Pakistani officials tell parents to vaccinate their kids or go to jail
Men look at wall graffiti depicting a American drone along a street in Sana'a, Yemen, on November 9, 2013.
Conflict
This Yemeni says US drone strikes are actually helping al-Qaeda
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area watched by military police at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in 2002.
Conflict
How the US provides inspiration for terrorists groups like ISIS
A demonstrator is held down during a simulation of waterboarding outside the Justice Department in 2007.
Conflict
For Black Hawk Down author, CIA torture report is no surprise
A guard shuts the gate to the airport in Szymany, Poland, in 2005. Polish media said the airport was identified by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged CIA prisons used to interrogate al-Qaeda captives.
Justice
Poles say aiding the CIA’s torture program ‘was simply being a good ally’
A polio worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child in Islamabad. Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013.
Health & Medicine
What’s stopping some Pakistani parents from letting their children be vaccinated?