US military pushed for closure of CIA-Saudi website: report

2010-03-19T09:16:21Z

<div><p>The US military in 2008 shut down a website set up by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to expose terror plots, angering both parties, who saw the site as a vital intelligence tool, the Washington Post reported Friday.</p><p>Despite objections from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised a year ago that new rules would ...

German journalist seeks release of Eichmann files

2010-03-18T08:15:33Z

<div id="subtitle">German journalist seeks release of thousands of secret files on top-Nazi Adolf Eichmann</div><div><p>The basics of Adolf Eichmann's story are well documented: Commonly known as the "architect of the Holocaust" for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was captured in Argenti...

Key Al-Qaeda figure believed killed in Pakistan

2010-03-18T04:15:53Z

<div><p>An Al-Qaeda figure who helped plan a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official said.</p><p>"We have indications that Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week appears to have killed a top al Qaeda planner who Washington believes helped organize December's deadly suicide bombing at a Britain can't completely rule out allies don't torture detainees</div><div><p>Britain's government can't completely rule out that its allies torture detainees while seeking to tackle the threat from terrorism, according to an official report released Wednesday.</p><p>An annual report on human rights, issued by Foreign Secretary...

U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief

2010-03-09T18:15:10Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.</p><p>Speaking at a meeting in the United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5...

Obama wants former top Army intel officer at TSA

2010-03-08T13:15:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama wants a former Army senior intelligence officer to lead TSA</div><div><p>President Barack Obama said he wants a former senior Army official with a career in intelligence to lead the Transportation Security Administration.</p><p>The president announced his choice, retired

Ex-MI6 man in court accused of disclosing secrets

2010-03-03T12:16:39Z

<div><p>An ex-MI6 agent appeared in court Wednesday charged with stealing files and disclosing them illegally.</p><p>Daniel Houghton, 25, who worked for foreign intelligence agency MI6 between September 2007 and May last year, was arrested Monday, the same day he was accused of revealing the files, police said.</p><p>He was remanded in custody after appearing at

Ex-MI6 man accused of intel disclosure

2010-03-03T12:16:37Z

<div><p>A former member of spy agency MI6 was Wednesday charged with revealing information about spying techniques, police said.</p><p>Daniel Houghton, 25, was accused under the Official Secrets Act of disclosing electronic files about intelligence gathering at the Central Criminal Court, better known as London's Old Bailey.<...

Ex-UK spy accused of attempting to sell secrets

2010-03-03T11:00:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Former MI6 spy accused of trying to sell data exposing British spy agency's techniques</div><div><p>A former MI6 spy has been accused of stealing top-secret files on intelligence-gathering techniques and offering them to a foreign government for 2 million pounds ($2.9 million), a prosecutor said Wednesday.</p><p>Prosecutor

Israel silent despite Dubai call for Netanyahu arrest

2010-03-03T06:16:23Z

<div><p> Israeli officials remained doggedly silent on Wednesday in the wake of a Dubai police decision to seek the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and the head of its spy agency over the murder of a top Hamas militant in the Gulf emirate.</p><p>Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office nor the foreign minist...

N.Korean soldier questioned after crossing border

2010-03-02T23:15:26Z

<div><p>A North Korean soldier was being questioned Wednesday after crossing into South Korea across the heavily fortified land border, Seoul's spy agency said.</p><p>The National Intelligence Service said it was mounting a joint investigation with the military and the police but would not confirm the soldier intended to defect.</p><p>

CIA suicide bomber calls for jihad against Jordan

2010-02-28T14:15:37Z

<div><p>A Jordanian double-agent who blew himself up in Afghanistan, killing seven CIA officers, called for jihad against his homeland in a video made before his death in the suicide attack, monitors said Sunday.</p><p>Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al...

Al-Qaida Jordan

2010-02-28T03:30:09Z

This image provided by IntelCenter Sunday Feb. 28, 2010 shows Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi in a posthumous video message posted on extremist Web sites Sunday. The al-Qaida double agent that killed seven CIA opera...

US House approves sharing spy files on Argentina

2010-02-26T14:17:54Z

<div id="subtitle">US House would aid Argentine human rights trials by revealing dictatorship-era spy files</div><div><p>Argentina praised the U.S. House on Friday for passing a measure that would force American intelligence agencies to share their files on dictatorship-era human rights violations in this country.</p><p>If...

Dems pull provision penalizing intel personnel

2010-02-26T14:17:40Z

<div><p>The House approved an intelligence agency bill Friday after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel using "cruel, inhuman and degrading" interrogation techniques.</p><p>The controversial provision would have subjected intelligence officers to up to 15 years in prison for interrogations that violate existing anti-torture laws, including the use of extreme temperatures, acts causing sexual humiliation or ...

Judge: UK spies had 'dubious record' over torture

2010-02-26T09:00:50Z

<div id="subtitle">UK judge says MI5 spies have 'dubious record' over treatment of alleged torture victim</div><div><p>A senior British judge on Friday accused domestic spy agency MI5 of colluding in the alleged torture of detainees in U.S. custody, issuing a stern criticism despite a government attempt to suppress the details.</p><p&g...

Colombia CIA

2010-02-26T08:17:47Z

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Press Office, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, left, meets with Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta, right, at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (

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