CIA Director Bill Burns is traveling back to Europe to try to get the talks on a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel Hamas that would halt the war in Gaza back on track, a US official tells CNN. “The Director is traveling to Europe in the coming days in an effort to revive the […]
The House Intelligence Committee found the CIA botched its response to reports of sexual assault and harassment inside the agency, with victims forced to navigate a process marked by “confusion and disorder,” according to an investigation by lawmakers. Employees who reported sexual assault and harassment saw “little to no accountability or punishment for the perpetrators,” […]
The House intelligence committee has found that the CIA failed to properly deal with sexual assault among employees in its ranks, according to a copy of the investigation’s final report obtained by POLITICO. In its hardest-hitting finding, the bipartisan report said there was “little to no accountability or punishment for confirmed perpetrators” and that there […]
Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment — which protects the individual right to privacy — only regulates law enforcement and does not […]
House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim. Without the evidence or the votes to impeach the president, at this […]
A Republican candidate for Congress in Washington state has suggested the CIA and Ukraine may be responsible for a terrorist attack last week that killed 143 people in Moscow, echoing a theory pushed, without evidence, by Kremlin propagandists. Joe Kent, a conservative firebrand in a likely rematch with first-term Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, whom he […]
WASHINGTON – Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation. Three former officials told Reuters that the CIA created […]
Recently, Reddit user sceneybeanie posed the question, “What are the craziest declassified CIA documents?” to the good people of AskReddit. And, IDK why I’m surprised, but their responses were so wild, out there, and shocking that they practically sound fake (but aren’t!). Check it out: 1.The Osama bin Laden Demon Toy — “The plan after […]
The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a female employee who reported being sexually assaulted by a colleague in a stairwell at the agency and who accused the CIA of trying to discourage her from filing a criminal complaint, according to her lawyer. The unnamed employee’s case, which led to her colleague’s conviction in state court […]
The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency’s headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct. The woman’s attorney called the action a brazen retaliation. While the CIA said that accusation was “factually inaccurate,” it […]
A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. Joshua Schulte – who was accused of handing over reams of classified data to WikiLeaks in 2016 – was convicted in […]
CIA Director William Burns believes 2024 will be an endurance test for Kyiv, since Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his plans to subjugate Ukraine, Burns wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs on Jan. 30. In the article, he said that Putin remains fixated on establishing control over Ukraine. Without this control, the […]