by Spencer Ackerman | Dec 18, 2012 | Monitor
When jihadist groups encounter Americans in warzones, it can often mean captivity or even death. Except in Syria, where a leading jihadist outfit just freed an NBC reporter.
by Robert McMillan and Spencer Ackerman | Nov 28, 2012 | Monitor
The shooting war between Israel and Hamas has stopped. But cyber attacks on Israeli and Palestinian websites have skyrocketed since last week’s ceasefire in Gaza took hold.
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 Spencer Ackerman | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
The chaotic aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi contrasts sharply with a leisurely interview one of the top suspects in the attack has given to The New York Times, in the same city. Photo: Wikimedia No one from the FBI has interviewed...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
Justin Kolbeck, a State Department political adviser, at work in eastern Afghanistan, June 2011. State wants to equip diplomats like him with location trackers for added security. Photo: Flickr/ISAF Among the horrors of the September assault on the Benghazi consulate...