by Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
David Petraeus being sworn in as CIA chief, with his wife Holly looking on. Photo: CIA Updated 10:23 pm. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has resigned. Petraeus told CIA employees Friday in a letter that he was stepping down “for...
by The Staff of Danger Room | Nov 6, 2012 | Monitor
<< Previous | Next >> Robotic assassination campaigns directed from the Oval Office. Cyber espionage programs launched at the president’s behest. Surveillance on an industrial scale. The White House already has an incredible amount of power to...
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 Robert Beckhusen | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
Updated 8:25 a.m. October 18 with the video of Awlaki and “Aminah” released by Jyllands-Posten. Morten Storm is either a serial liar or a former mole within al-Qaida for the CIA. And if Storm isn’t a serial liar, he just accused his handlers in U.S....
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 10, 2012 | Monitor
A model of Osama bin Laden’s compound, found on Bing. Photo: Microsoft A top-secret base in Taiwan, revealed on Apple Maps. The Navy SEALs’ rehearsal site for the Osama bin Laden raid, found on Bing. Once again, commercial satellites have snapped images of...