by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 8, 2012 | Monitor
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney campaigns in Tempe, Arizona. Photo: Flickr/Gage Skidmore Mitt Romney thinks Barack Obama is a terrible president. When Romney looks at Obama’s foreign policies, he sees a president who projects “passivity” in a...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 25, 2012 | Monitor
Staff and security personnel wait backstage as President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations, September, 2011. Photo: Flickr/White House As riots across the Mideast targeted U.S. embassies and consulates, the White House quietly asked YouTube to...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 24, 2012 | Monitor
Libyans celebrate the end of the Gadhafi regime in Benghazi, October 2011. After the attack on the U.S. consulate, these same Libyans could be key for the CIA’s counterterrorism efforts. Photo: Flickr/Magherebia President Obama told the truth when he said there...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 21, 2012 | Monitor
Blackwater guards at the Republican Palace in Iraq, undated photo. The reincarnated security firm, now called Academi, just received a contract to train the Defense Department’s intelligence operatives in self-defense. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Now that the...
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:...