by Noah Shachtman | Nov 27, 2012 | Monitor
American officials are blaming Iran for recent attacks on the servers of western banks. But the hackers taking credit for the sophisticated distributed denial-of-service strikes say they pulled off the bank jobs without any government help.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 27, 2012 | Monitor
Another sign of the U.S.’ entrenched counterterrorism shadow wars: The U.S. is now buying Yemen a fleet of manned spy planes, a big hardware upgrade.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 20, 2012 | Monitor
There once was a time, just last year, when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta thought the U.S. was thisclose to wiping al-Qaida off the face of the earth, once and for all. That appears to have gone up in the flames …
by David Axe and Noah Shachtman | Nov 13, 2012 | Monitor
Gen. John Allen in Afghanistan last December. Photo: NATO ISAF Updated 8:48 am. The sex scandal that brought down former Army general and CIA Director David Petraeus has expanded to engulf another senior official: Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S....
by Colleen Curtis | Nov 4, 2012 | Monitor
President Barack Obama receives a briefing about the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy, at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2012. Seated, from left, are: FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; and Defense...