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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been the subject of a number of controversies, both in and outside of the United States. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner accuses the CIA of covert actions and human rights abuses. [1] Jeffrey T. Richelson of the National Security Archive has been critical of its claims. [2]
A 50-page Human Rights Watch report, "Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention", contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who was released from custody the previous year. Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US president George W. Bush requesting information about the fate ...
A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for divulging a cache of classified hacking tools to the whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks and possessing child abuse images.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations.
A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday after his convictions for what the government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history ...
THE SPY WHO USED HIS SON: Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from ...
Upon discovery of an official cover agent's secret hostile role, the host nation often declares the agent persona non grata and orders them to leave the country. Official cover operatives are granted a set of governmental protections, and if caught in the act of espionage, they can request diplomatic protection from their government. In other ...
Facebook knows a great deal of data about us because we choose to share it with them. It may seem innocuous, but there are real-world implications. Does Facebook know more about you than the CIA?