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CIA director William Burns recently traveled to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and senior intelligence officials, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News. Burns “reinforced our continued support for Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression,” the official, speaking on a condition of anonymity, said. The Washington Post first
UNITED STATES : Cofer Black, former CIA Counterterrorism Center … Intelligence Online Source link
“A woke military is a weak military,” former CIA director Mike Pompeo tweeted Tuesday. A few weeks earlier at CIA headquarters, in Langley, Va., current CIA director William J. Burns had a different perspective: cutting the ribbon on a new statue of abolitionist and military spy Harriet Tubman, a move some
LANGLEY, Va., July 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday thanked staff at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency for warning the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine, and hailed what he called the “quiet bravery” of America’s spies. Marking the CIA’s 75th anniversary, Biden said he had […]
Recent testimony at a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, revealed that Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA during the Trump administration who retired in 2021, observed the torture of detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a US black site in Thailand in 2002. According to a report in the New York Times on Friday, James […]
A Loyal CIA Operative’s Mind Is Not a Pretty Place Jacobin magazine Source link
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The psychologist who for the C.I.A. waterboarded a prisoner accused of plotting the U.S.S. Cole bombing testified this week that the Saudi man broke quickly and became so compliant that he would crawl into a cramped crate even before guards ordered him inside. The psychologist, James E. Mitchell, also told a […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for a badly fractured court, said the main question was whether the information […]
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A confessed courier for Al Qaeda whose tale of torture by the C.I.A. disgusted a U.S. military jury has completed his prison sentence, the Pentagon announced Friday. Now U.S. diplomats have to find a place for him to go. Majid Khan was sentenced to 26 years in prison in October, starting […]
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A confessed courier for Al Qaeda whose tale of torture by the C.I.A. disgusted a U.S. military jury has completed his prison sentence, the Pentagon announced Friday. Now U.S. diplomats have to find a place for him to go. Majid Khan was sentenced to 26 years in prison in October, starting […]