by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Oct 9, 2012 | Monitor
The aftermath of violent late September clashes in Benghazi, Libya. Photo: AP/Mohammad Hannon The day after Islamic extremists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the nation’s top counterterrorists hosted something of a brainstorming session on how to keep...
by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
Demonstrators in Benghazi hang the ex-dictator Moammar Gadhafi in effigy, February 2011. The State Department later hired a private security firm, Blue Mountain, to help protect the U.S. consulate in the city — before it was attacked on Sept. 11. Photo:...
by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Jul 18, 2012 | Monitor
Workers inspect chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky in an undated photograph. Photo: U.S. Army Hours after the Syrian regime suffered its greatest setback in the yearlong civil war, the U.S. and U.K. defense chiefs feared that dictator...
by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Jun 27, 2012 | Monitor
Two names have emerged in the search for the next director of the Pentagon’s premier research agency. Problem is, one of them has ties to Solyndra, the controversial solar energy firm that embroiled the White House in a scandal. And this isn’t exactly the...