Central Intelligence Agency

The Guaranteed Way To Win Acting Awards These Days

I used to think it was to play someone with a disability and engage in lots of scenes of noble suffering, but then they didn't Oscar-nominate the guy in the iron lung or the woman with no legs, so scratch that. I've now realized what the most efficient new way is to cop the gold!

BREAKING: Anonymous Claims to Take Down CIA Website

Runnin' Scared just got word from Anonymous's Twitter feed that the hacktivist group has taken down the Central Intelligence Agency's website, writing: "CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous (via @RT_America) http://goo.gl/zBW2b." As of 3:53 p.m., the CIA's website does not appear to be w ... More >>

Andreas von Bülow: The World's Most Respectable 9/11 Conspiracy Nut

von Bulow: CIA blew up the World Trade CenterThere are 9/11 conspiracy nuts who are nuts and then there's German politician Andreas von Bülow, a member of the center-left Social Democrats who spent 25 years in the Bundestag and was Helmut Schmidt's Minister for Research and Technology for a few ... More >>

'CIA John' Story on Bin Laden Killer Pits New York Observer Against Government, Journalism

​On July 5, the Associated Press reported about "John," a "career CIA analyst" who helped track down Osama Bin Laden. "In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist," the AP wrote, "there may have been no one more important." They didn't use his name, for fear of "retribution," but the AP ... More >>

Dick Nixon's Buddy Bebe Rebozo Comes Into the Watergate Picture

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 9, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 32 Covering up the cover-up? by Lucian K. Truscott IV In the days immediately following the break-in of Democratic National Party Headquarters at the Watergate in June 1972, Richard M. Nixon met repeated ... More >>

The CIA Isn't Cool with CIA Agents Talking to The Press

​Imagine being a super-secret spy for the CIA and having something you think is in the best interests of the American people that you know, that they don't. What to do? Call a reporter! Looks like the CIA isn't too cool with this kind of thing.

EXCLUSIVE: I Got Blueballed by This Famous-Ass Chick, Yo

​Three years ago this week, an intoxicated famous chick showed up at the apartment of a 26-year-old Brooklynite and ended up spending the night in his bed. Here's his story--and photos--of his escapade with this famous hot poontang, yo.

Farewell Stars Badly Dressed Bureaucrats Instead of Spies

Outed Spy Valerie Plame Loses Appeal in First Amendment Case

​Outed ex-spy Valerie Plame Wilson, whose memoir was heavily censored by the C.I.A., lost a second attempt to get the whole story out today. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the C.I.A.'s right to edit out of Wilson's 2007 memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, information relating to ... More >>

Holder's CIA Investigation Unleashes Rightblogger Rage Over 9/11, Marc Rich

​Attorney General Eric Holder is going to do a "preliminary review" of the CIA to see if any of the techniques their operatives used on detainees -- which the Inspector General's report reveals included threats to rape the detainees' female relatives in front of them and kill their children, m ... More >>

What the CIA Had to Destroy

The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle

Durham Bull

Waterboarding the White House

Echoes of Watergate in the twilight of the Bush presidency

Trail of Torture Tapes

What did Bush know and when did he know it? Will the next president pardon him?

Congress and the Disappeared

Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

The Gestapo Inheritance

'We do not torture': Groans from the CIA's black sites beg to differ

History Will Not Absolve Us

Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial

Bush to CIA: 'Leave No Marks'

With no sign of torture on a prisoner, then it didn't happen, right?

Architect of Torture

The Berkeley professor who gave a president a license to (all but) kill

The CIA's No-Questions-Asked Travel Agent

A private corporation joins Bush administration's conspiracy to obstruct justice

Boeing's Frequent (Kidnapping) Flyers

George W. Bush's presidential library is not likely to include the story of Binyam Mohammed

Ghost Prisons, Ghost Courtrooms

From CIA secret prisons, 14 "high-level" terror suspects are at Gitmo. Where are all the others?

The New Americanism

Through the new Congress, we can begin to take back our country from George III's descendants

Have a Nice Flight

Boeing helps CIA fly kidnapped suspects abroad for torture

What the Democrats Must Do

Mandate for the new majority: Curb the president's power to torture

Blind to Torture

Our European allies in the CIA's criminal missions are finally held accountable

Global Spiderweb

Devastating Council of Europe report on CIA involvement with kidnapping and torture

General Hayden in Bush's Pocket

The nimble former head of the National Security Agency soft-shoes his way to the CIA

Europe Shames U.S. Congress

CIA war crimes in Europe are now under official investigation there, but not here

CIA Secret Prisons Exposed

The disappeared: Are they dead? Are they alive? Ask Congress. Ask the president.

The CIA's 'Black Sites'

What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

Conspiracy 101

The basics of alternative 9-11 theories

Morning Report 12/17/05
Spying and Spinelessness

CIA War Crimes

CIA has documented every use of its exclusive 'enhanced interrogation techniques'

Prisons of Darkness

CIA leads U.S. in 'reaching for the low moral ground' in the war against terrorism

Patching Things Up

The press gets a second chance on the CIA leak case

Who Sent the CIA Thugs?

Italy's prime minister demands that the U.S. explain CIA criminality in his country

The CIA's Kidnapping Ring

U.S. ally Uzbekistan teaches interrogators how to boil suspected terrorists to death

The Pope's CIA File

New released papers show link between church, spooks against Soviet Union

War Crimes

Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured

GOP's Heart of Darkness

The president says he opposes torture; his leadership supports it. Who will prevail?

Disappearing Prisoners

Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?

The Failure of U.S. Intelligence

The question is not what went wrong, but what didn't.

The Invisible Men

Canadian inquiry may reveal CIA secrets on outsourcing torture

The Elephant in Wilson's Living Room

feds broaden leak probe, start grilling republican party officials

Spy Scam

The Outing of a CIA Employee Is a Predictable Move in the Bush Government's Attack on Constitutional Rights

Montesinos’s Revenge

Extra, Extra! CIA’s Drug Warrior Was a Thug!

Spooked in Peru

Media Is Snowblind No More

LSD Story Causes Flashbacks

The ‘Times’ Digs Up Old CIA Death

From Their Vaults to Your Desktop

Finding Documents the Man Wants to Hide