Mark Mazzetti

National Intelligence Director to step down

March 13, 2014Global Politics

The White House announced that director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, would step down from his post effective today. Blair is the first high-ranking member of the Obama national security team to leave the administration.

That night elf you defeated in World of Warcraft may have been an NSA spy. Really

December 9, 2013Environment

US can’t quit paying spies in Afghanistan and Pakistan

August 15, 2013Global Politics

US Steps Up Covert War Effort in Yemen

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Aided in Killing

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

The CIA’s Covert Operation in Libya

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Mark Mazzetti, National Security correspondent for The New York Times, broke the story. He joins The Takeaway to tell us more about what the CIA has been doing in Libya.

CIA Agent Outed, Possibly by Pakistani Officials

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Tensions continue to rise between U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies. The CIA’s top spy was pulled out of the country last week after receiving several death threats. The CIA believes that its Pakistani counterpart, the ISI, may have deliberately blown the cover of the operative: his name was made public in a legal complaint by […]

Times Square bomber arrested on commercial flight to Dubai

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

Federal agents arrested Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad at New York’s Kennedy Airport for the attempted Times Square car bombing. Though Shahzad has admitted to planning and placing the car bomb, his connection to terror groups remains to be seen.

Pentagon official’s spy drama

August 14, 2013Global Politics

A Pentagon official, Michael Furlong, is being investigated for illegally building a network of contractors to work unknowingly as spies, gathering information that was used to track down and kill insurgents in Afghanistan.

Debate grows over response to Iran’s nuclear attempts

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

U.S. officials say that Iran halted work on weapons design in 2003, but Germany, France and Israel think differently. We get the story from New York Times defense correspondent Mark Mazzetti.