Will a Woman Helm U.S. Intelligence Next Year?

Women have run Britain's domestic counterterrorism agency, and a woman may soon run France's foreign espionage service. Three American women with similar credentials could possibly emerge from the shadows in an Obama, Clinton or McCain administration.

CQ Politics (05/30/2008)

Evidence Grows of Drug Use on Detainees

There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs designed to weaken the resistance of terrorist suspects to interrogation. Another window opened on the practice last week with the declassification of John Yoo’s 2003 memo approving harsh interrogation techniques. But hard evidence that U.S. interrogators are employing hallucinogens, like the LSD the CIA tested on unwitting subjects for at least 20 years beginning in the 1940s, has yet to surface.

CQ Politics (04/04/2008)

Indicted Former Congressman Played God's James Bond

Long before he was indicted last month on charges that he rinsed money for an al Qaeda-connected charity, former Michigan Republican Rep. Mark Siljander had immersed himself in clandestine operations, according to his ill-timed and -titled memoir, “A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide,” scheduled for publication in June.

CQ Politics(02/22/2008)

Attack on Kremlin Critic Here Still Unsolved

Almost a year after Kremlin critic Paul Joyal was gunned down in his suburban Maryland driveway, the case remains a mystery. The police say it was a hold-up, although nothing was taken -- in a virtually crime-free residential area. Others see the hand of the Kremlin in the attack.

CQ Politics(02/15/2008)

State Secrets Abuses Come to a Boil

The government's practice of fending off suits by former intelligence agents and civil rights groups by invoking the 'state secrets privilege' is coming under heavy fire.

CQ Politics(02/01/2008)

Wiretapping's Collateral Damage

The strange spy tale of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright and the administration's push for open-ended electronic surveillance powers combine to create cause for worry — but not just for the reasons many people think.
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CQ Politics(01/25/2008)

Top U.N. Nuclear Watchdog a Russian Spy: Defector

The top U.N. official responsible for monitoring the clandestine nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan is a Russian spy, according to a new book on Moscow’s espionage operations in the United States and Canada.
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CQ Politics(01/18/2008)

FBI Agent Goes Public With Counterterror Critique

Breaking silence and defying warnings from his FBI bosses, the agent whose internal protests revealed the bureau’s illegal use of secret National Security Letters went public Saturday, blasting the agency for discrimination in the ranks and a lack of interest in Arab language and culture.
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CQ Politics(01/11/2008)

Libya May Escape Final Judgment in Pan-Am 103 Case

Libya is close to getting off the hook for millions of dollars in payments to relatives of the 189 Americans who died in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103, amid a stiff new challenge to the 2001 verdict and rapidly warming relations between the erstwhile terrorist state and Washington.
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CQ Politics(12/20/2007)

Another Homeland Boondoggle in the Works

Who needs to spend $22 million on a commission to study homegrown terrorism? Only Congress, of course -- no matter that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, think tanks, universities, journalists and independent scholars have studied it to death.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/26/2007)

The FBI's Latest Anti-Terror Boss Plans to Stick Around

The FBI’s new top counterterrorism guy, Willie T. Hulon, says he’s going to stick around for awhile.
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CQ Homeland Security (9/22/2006)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the FBI Finds in a Chinese Spy Case

The FBI has it down now: No more female Chinese spies running amok in its offices, seducing the counterintelligence agents who are supposed to be managing them — instead of the other way around.
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CQ Homeland Security (5/26/2006)

Justice Department Slams FBI Management of Chinese Espionage Cases

The FBI allowed one of its counterintelligence agents to carry on a sexual affair with his Chinese spy for almost 20 years, despite evidence that she was a double agent secretly working for the communists, the Justice Department reported Wednesday.
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CQ Homeland Security (5/24/2006)

Top Former CIA Official Tells Senate Panel FBI is Failing at New Intelligence Role

A top former U.S. intelligence official told a Senate panel Tuesday that the FBI is taking too long to develop a first-rate domestic intelligence capability and that “other options” should be pursued.
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CQ Homeland Security (5/03/2006)

FBI Mob Case Reveals Perils of Protecting Crooked Informants

When a much-respected veteran FBI agent was indicted in New York this week on charges that he helped Italian mobsters carry out four murders, probably the least surprised official in Washington was Rep. Bill Delahunt, the five-term Democrat from Cape Cod.
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CQ Homeland Security
(3/31/2006)

After Spending Millions, the FBI Computer System is Still No Hercules

Hercules, a hero of Greek myth, had a tough childhood.

His father was Zeus,the top god, but his mother was a mere mortal. Legend has it that she grew so jealous of the strapping, handsome infant that one day she sent two snakes to kill him in his crib.

He strangled them and laughed.

Fast forward thousands of years. When the CIA installed a whiz-bang electronic data and messaging system sometime in the 1990s, they named it Hercules.
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CQ Homeland Security
(3/24/2006)

FBI Stops to Build Some New Rooms for Its Swelling Workforce

Just the facts, ma’am, as Joe Friday would say.

And the cold facts of the budget look good for the FBI — again.
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CQ Homeland Security (2/8/2006)

FBI Agent Punished for Exposing Boss's Affair With an Informant, Suit Claims

The FBI’s former top agent in Panama carried on an affair with a confidential informant that left him open to blackmail by “a hostile foreign intelligence agency,” according to his former deputy, who has filed a discrimination suit against the bureau.
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CQ Homeland Security (1/24/2006)

Former FBI Officials Defend Investigations of Animal Rights, Other Political Groups

Former top FBI counterintelligence officials defended investigations of animal rights and other political groups in interviews Wednesday as controversy swirled over Bush administration domestic spying operations, including allegations that “Homeland Security agents” probed a Massachusetts college student for requesting a copy of Mao Tse-tung’s “Little Red Book” from the university library.
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CQ Homeland Security (12/21/2005)