Apparently, NSA values being able to blackmail citizens and members of government at home and abroad more than preventing terrorist attacks. . ..…

[fn]The CIA estimated Iran’s foreign currency reserves at the end of 2017 at $132 billion.Hide Footnote Non-oil exports are on the rise, providing Iran with a positive trade balance, and Tehran hopes that the remaining JCPOA signatories and other friendly nations will throw it an additional..…

That demand, in turn, eventually produced the so-called smoking-gun tape, a recording of Nixon authorizing the CIA to shut down the FBI’s investigation into Watergate. ..…

Trump pointedly refused to endorse the CIA’s reported finding that the Saudi crown prince had likely ordered Khashoggi’s murder, but the U.S. ..…

I suggest that for a start, we the American people demand that our government, in open public Congressional hearings, subject the Pentagon and all the other “national security” agencies of the federal government — the CIA, Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the Interior..…

Out of these fears came TPAJAX, a CIA-backed coup plot to overthrow Mossadegh. ... But protests supporting the shah, fanned in part by the CIA, led to Mosaddegh’s fall and the monarch’s return. . ..…

Its strategic advisory board includes such luminaries as Dick Cheney (former US vice president under Bush Jr); James Woolsey (former CIA director); Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury); Rupert Murdoch (chairman of News Corporation among other media interests); and Jacob Rothschild. ... It..…

Philip Giraldi is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer and a columnist and television commentator. ..…

The only feature that distinguished Syrian militants from the rest of jihadist groups was not their ideology except their weapons arsenals that were bankrolled by Gulf's petro-dollars and provided by CIA collaboration with security agencies of Washington's traditional allies in Middle East.. ..…

Behind the attack-motive was State Department and CIA with U.S. Libyan weapons and the flow to Syria.  ..…

I started off Washington at Central Intelligence Agency and went to school at night while I was working at CIA, recalled William Barr in a 2001 history for University of Virginia.. ... Kamal Adham, of Saudi intelligence and CIA collaborator, played in the..…

Indeed, shortly thereafter it was Church Committee in US Senate that investigated CIA and FBI, not Deep State. ..…

The attack targetted US military in the city of Manbij while troops were inside Palace of Princes, restaurant where they often stopped to eat during patrols, residents said. ..…

CIA operation to train and Afghan counter-terror forces, reflecting the continuity of CIA Afghanistan produces similar effect. ..…