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)

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)

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)