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 22, 2012 | Monitor
Photo: Flickr/donrelyea The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya promises to play a big role in Monday’s debate between President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney. But don’t cringe: For all the silly gotcha moments about who cried...
by David Axe | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
View Syria: downed aerial vehicles in a larger map In July, the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad unleashed its jet fighters against the growing rebel forces of the Free Syrian Army, marking a major escalation of the bloody civil war. The rebels...
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...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
A Standard Missile-3 interceptor is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie during a joint Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test, 2007. Photo: Flickr/Missile Defense Agency Just in time for a presidential election in which both...