by Robert Beckhusen | May 14, 2013 | Monitor
Officially, Ryan Christopher Fogle worked as a junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. According to Moscow, he was a spy working for the CIA. If so, he screwed up bad.
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Let Hamid Karzai be a cautionary tale. The U.S. can’t buy foreign allies. It can only rent them. And even then, the cash undermines Washington’s broader goals.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 2, 2012 | Monitor
CIA Director David Petraeus rings the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, Sept. 18, 2012. Photo: Flickr/CIA There’s an unexpected casualty of the September assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya: the reputation of David Petraeus, the...
by Robert Beckhusen | Sep 25, 2012 | Monitor
The second X-37B sits inside its encapsulation shell at a Florida facility before an April 2010 launch. Photo: Air Force The Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is now readying for its third space mission, slated to begin in October. And perhaps not...
by Spencer Ackerman | Aug 16, 2012 | Monitor
Does the voting public care about national security leaks? A group of special operations veterans opposed to President Obama hopes so. A new political nonprofit, the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, seeks to be the 2012 edition of the Swift Boat Veterans for...