Chicago's corruption fighter
The U.S. Attorney prosecuting the corruption case has a higher profile than the Governor. The man leading the case against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has a hard-charging, non-nonsense reputation...
View ArticleWashington continues to support Israel
This weekend, President Bush weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Vice-President Dick Cheney also made the rounds of talk shows to express support for Israel. As Israel continues its ground...
View ArticleThe sad nexus of medical ethics and torture: A look at a new Red Cross report
A new report by the International Committee of the Red Cross reveals the unsavory fact that medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogations of terror suspects held overseas by the...
View ArticleCaptain Richard Phillips freed after fire fight with Somali pirates
For five long days Richard Phillips, the captain of the American cargo ship Maersk Alabama, was held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. In a dramatic rescue yesterday U.S. Navy snipers freed him....
View ArticleFine print of the torture memos reveal shocking details
The fallout from the release of the so-called torture memos that document the CIA's interrogation techniques against purported terrorists continues. Now more details of the potentially illegal torture...
View ArticleThe secret history of the CIA interrogation tactics
A new examination by our partner The New York Times, shows that in 2002 top officials in the Bush administration for the first time signed off on the barbaric interrogation procedures, that in the past...
View ArticleTorture Memo Probe: Lawyers May Not Be Prosecuted
The Justice Department has been investigating the Bush administration lawyers who drafted the so-called torture memos that outlined brutal techniques for gathering information. According to our...
View ArticleThe Torture Debate Ensnares the President
Bush administration policies on the treatment of detainees have now embroiled President Obama in a growing controversy. News broke last night that the U.S. will restart military tribunals for a small...
View ArticleCheney's CIA Secret Anti-Terror Program
Former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress for eight years regarding a secret counter-terrorism program. C.I.A. director Leon Panetta told the Senate and...
View ArticleProsecutor John Durham to Look at CIA Abuses
Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate alleged prisoner abuses at CIA prisons during the Bush administration. Durham has a long reputation as a...
View ArticleDick Cheney Speaks Out Against CIA Investigation
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke out on Fox News yesterday against the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the alleged abuse of prisoners by CIA interrogators. Cheney said he...
View ArticleWay Forward in Afghanistan Remains Murky
The war in Afghanistan continues to drag on, and the Obama administration is waiting for the country's presidential election runoff before deciding whether to send additional troops to the region....
View ArticleAlleged Fort Hood Shooter Reportedly Wrote to Radical Cleric
New details are emerging in the case of the suspected Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who shot and killed 13 people and wounded 29 others during a shooting spree last...
View ArticleThe Path to Justice for Suspected Fort Hood Shooter
At a memorial for victims of the Fort Hood shootings, President Obama said the killer will "be met with justice in this world and the next." We focus on the legal challenges for the alleged shooter,...
View ArticleTakeouts: Pakistan Detainees, Atlanta Mayoral Election
National Security Takeout:New York Times National Security Reporter Scott Shane talks about five Muslim-American men being detained in Pakistan on possible connections to terrorism. The men disappeared...
View ArticleFeds Charge Nigerian Man With Bombing Attempt
Over the weekend, federal authorities charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. That man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claims that he received...
View ArticlePresident: 'Systemic Failure' in Security
Details are still trickling out on how the alleged Christmas Day 'bomber' managed to board a Detroit-bound plane despite several intelligence agencies having some information on him. To look at what...
View ArticleLatest on Investigation and Interrogation of Faisal Shahzad
The question everybody is asking this week has been, who is 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, the man held and accused of placing a car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend? After two days of...
View ArticleIs Obama Cracking Down on Whistle Blowers? The Pentagon Seeks Wikileaks Founder
The Pentagon is searching for Julian Assange, founder of the website Wikileaks, amidst concerns that the site could publish thousands of international cables from the State Department. The cables are...
View ArticleDetails of Alleged Russian Spy Ring Unfold
The FBI announced yesterday the arrests of 11 people associated with an alleged Russian spy ring. The arrests were made on Sunday in Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. Details coming out...
View ArticleFather of First US Citizen Marked for Kill Or Capture Challenges CIA in Court
Can the U.S. government or its agents kill an American citizen even if he is a non-combatant? Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim Cleric born in America and hiding in Yemen, has called for a Jihad...
View ArticleBehind-The-Scenes Diplomacy Revealed in Latest WikiLeaks Release
WikiLeaks struck again this weekend, this time releasing a trove of over 250,000 documents containing cable messages between international diplomats. The New York Times and four other major...
View ArticleEgyptian Military and Mubarak's True Power
Egypt's autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak announced his plans to remain president of Egypt, yet, more and more voices begin to consolidate power both inside the government, and outside its walls....
View ArticleFrom Gitmo Prisoner to US Ally in Libya?
The New York Times obtained a trove of more than 700 classified documents holding new information about the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay. The documents show that most of the 172 prisoners who...
View ArticleDid Torture Help or Hinder Efforts to Find Bin Laden?
There is growing debate among Democrats and Republicans over which president's tactic helped find and kill Osama bin Laden. Was it the harsh interrogation techniques under the Bush administration, that...
View ArticleProof is in the Hard Drives: Bin Laden's Terror Tech
After poring over documents and hard drives taken out of the compound in Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed, intelligence analysts have surmised that the al-Qaida leader was consistently in touch...
View ArticleWithout New Leader, Future of Al-Qaida in Limbo
With the death of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is now calling on all its followers to prepare do-it-yourself plans of attack against America. And it’s a sharp contrast to the strategy taken on by bin...
View ArticleThe Quiet War Against Iran's Nuclear Program
Stuxnet, the mysterious computer virus which only targets Siemens industrial software and equipment, devastated Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and nuclear reactor at Bushehr. These...
View ArticleDouble-Agent Thwarted Al Qaeda Suicide Bombing Plot
There’s a new twist in the developing story of a thwarted terrorist plot orchestrated by Al Qaeda in Yemen. The would-be suicide bomber tasked with blowing up a United States-bound airliner was...
View ArticleNew Leak: U.S. and Britain Eavesdropped on World Leaders in 2009
Another revelation has come to light surrounding the nature of U.S. spying programs as the G8 summit kicks off in Ireland. A document disclosed by Edward Snowden, the leaker of the N.S.A. surveillance...
View ArticleSnowden Strikes Again With New Leaks
Edward Snowden strikes again, this time lifting the lid on how far and to what extent the National Security Agency (N.S.A.) has been secretly unraveling encryption technology that we all rely onto keep...
View ArticleObama Seeks to Calm a Nervous Nation in Prime-Time Address
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.In a rare addressed delivered from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Obama tried to calm fears of terrorism in the wake of the mass...
View ArticleRussian Spies?
Scott Shane, national security reporter with the New York Times in Washington, talks about the alleged Russian espionage ring and the eleven people accused and arrested in the last several days. Plus,...
View ArticleOslo Attacks
Heidi Beirich, director of research at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and New York Times reporter, Scott Shane, walk us through items from the Oslo suspect's manifesto - specifically the references...
View ArticleIranian Nuclear Scientist Killed
New York Times national security correspondent, Scott Shane, and senior staff writer for The Wall Street Journal covering the Middle East, Farnaz Fassihi, discuss the fallout from the killing of the...
View ArticleSecrets That Aren't Secret
The White House announced this week that they’d killed Al Qaeda’s number 2 operative, but, following standard operating procedure, would not tell reporters how they'd killed him. Why? Because they...
View ArticleObama Administration Codifying Drone Policy
Scott Shane, reporter for The New York Times, discusses his report that the Obama Administration has been working on writing a rule book for U.S. drone use.
View ArticleBoston: The Russian Connection
Scott Shane, New York Timesintelligence reporter based in Washington, discusses ongoing questions about the investigation of the Boston bombings, and the effectiveness of the intelligence community in...
View ArticleThe Torture Report Reveals Big Paychecks for Two Psychologists
According to the recent Senate report, the CIA spent $300 million on its now-defunct detention and interrogation program. And $81 million of that went toward two psychologists who engineered the...
View ArticleThe Semantics of Terrorism
The White House Summit on countering violent extremism has renewed critical focus on President Obama's avoidance of using "Islamic" or "jihadist" when describing acts of terror perpetrated by ISIS and...
View ArticleWhy President Obama Had a U.S. Citizen Killed by Drone
Scott Shane, who has extensively covered terrorism for The New York Times, discusses his book, Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone. The title refers to the military code...
View ArticleFor Clinton, Faded Hopes and Failures in Libya
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Perhaps the most influential decisions of Hillary Clinton's tenure in the State Department came in 2011 and 2012, as the Arab Spring spread to...
View ArticleFighting the Specter of Terror
In recent years, many of the perpetrators of terrorist violence in the United States-- the Boston marathon bombers, the shooters in San Bernardino and Orlando, and most recently, the alleged Chelsea...
View ArticleAnother NSA Intelligence Breach
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.A contractor with the NSA has been arrested for stealing and leaking classified secrets. Sound familiar? Though the name Edward Snowden may...
View ArticleThe Great Election Hack of 2016
For months now, we've been hearing of alleged Russian interference in the US election, but the story has been muddled by rumors, leaks, and competing narratives. This week, the New York Times published...
View ArticleThe Power Behind Trump
Eliana Johnson, national political reporter at POLITICO and former Washington editor for National Review, and Scott Shane, reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times and author of...
View ArticleFacebook and Russia's Influence in the Presidential Elections
Scott Shane, national security reporter at The New York Times and author of Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone (Tim Duggan Books, 2015), discusses how Russian-linked...
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