by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 11, 2012 | Monitor
Gen. David Petraeus gives the thumbs up with his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony. Photo: DOD When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect. How could you...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
Two people at a Beirut hackerspace prepare a screenprint, Sept. 14, 2012. The initiative that set up the Beirut hackerspace is preparing a new one next month in Iraq — the country’s first DIY fabrication studio. Photo: Facebook/Lamba Labs After decades of...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
This birdlike drone of unknown origin was found by Iraqi Hezbollah and also appeared in the Pakistani tribal areas. Image via David Cenciotti It wasn’t just Pakistan. The weird, vaguely avian drone of unknown origin that curiously showed up in Pakistan last year...
by Noah Shachtman | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
Stephen Cambone (center) was sworn in the Pentagon’s intelligence chief on March 11, 2003. Photo: DoD ASPEN, Colorado — There’s a broad consensus in the U.S. defense establishment today that the choice to invade Iraq was ill-considered and that the...
by Kris Alexander | Jul 27, 2012 | Monitor
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not give his chemical weapons to Syria. Photo: U.S. Commerce Department As if warped by some giant conspiratorial black hole, any discussion of Syria’s chemical and biological weapons inevitably bends back in time and...