by Michael Doyle July 20, 2009 Washington – A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered former CIA director George Tenet and five other CIA officials to explain their actions or face [...]

by Kim Zetter June 29, 2009 Following a report last week that Iran is spying on domestic internet users with western-supplied technology, advocacy groups are pressuring federal lawmakers to scrutinize the use of the same technology in the U.S.

read English (original) version below Matando la esperanza, sembrando el terror por Manuel García, Jr. 15 de julio, 2009 En junio de 2009, Leon Panetta, director de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) – la Guardia Pretoriana de EE.UU. que guía el curso del Imperio del Área del Dólar – anuló un programa para asesinar a dirigentes de al-Qaeda, [...]

by Editorial (New York Times) July 16, 2009 We’ve known for years that the Bush administration ignored and broke the law repeatedly in the name of national security. It is now clear that many of those programs could have been conducted just as easily within the law — perhaps more effectively and certainly with far less damage [...]

• Congressional calls for formal investigation mount • Agency officials believe they’re caught up in political war

by David Kravets July 15, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – Citing the state secrets privilege and other legal claims, the Obama administration urged a federal judge here Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit claiming Americans’ electronic communications are being siphoned to the National Security Agency without warrants. During a two-hour hearing, a top-ranking Justice Department litigator declined to confirm or [...]

by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane July 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

by Lisa Pease July 10, 2009 On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question? The Agency has a long history of manipulating Congress and others to support its programs. That this was posed as an [...]

by Scott Shane July 11, 2009 The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

by Pamela Hess July 11, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they’re still too secret to reveal.