Intelligence

Known Unknowns

Why even bad predictions are good for America.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 13, 2012

David and Paula

The Petraeus affair may be over, as far as the media circus is concerned. But its baleful aftereffects linger on.

BY SARAH CHAYES | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Intel Inside

Has the IAEA's information become politicized?

BY MARK HIBBS | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Spooks, Incorporated

Does every company need its own CIA?

BY AMY ZEGART | DECEMBER 5, 2012

Spyocrats

Benghazi shows the limits of inteligence-by-committee.

BY NADA BAKOS | NOVEMBER 30, 2012

King David

Why generals shouldn't run the CIA.

BY AMY B. ZEGART | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Squeal Team Six

Why punish seven SEALs for the Pentagon's love affair with Hollywood?

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Throwing Rice

Barack Obama was right to defend Susan Rice from the GOP attacks. She's got the chops to be secretary of state.

BY SEAN KAY | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The World Is Not Enough

Why does the planet's No. 1 spy never go to the really dangerous places?

BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Draft Dodgers

The little Gmail trick that David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell used to communicate is actually old spycraft.

BY JEFF STEIN | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Shaken, Not Stirred by CIA 'Values'

Why do the CIA director's peccadilloes rile us more than his policies?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Nate Silver vs. Kim Jong Un

Why we can't figure out what North Korea will do next.

BY AMY B. ZEGART | NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Interrogation Techniques

What Bob Schieffer can learn from the CIA.

BY AMY ZEGART | OCTOBER 24, 2012

Failing History

Why hasn’t the CIA learned anything from the Cuban missile crisis?

BY AMY ZEGART | OCTOBER 10, 2012

Don't Just 'Do Something'

Why Obama shouldn't send a bunch of ninjas to Benghazi.

BY MICAH ZENKO | OCTOBER 9, 2012

A Father's Secret…

And his journalist son's search for the truth.

BY SCOTT C. JOHNSON | NOVEMBER 2012

Declassified

The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.

BY PETER BUCK FELLER | NOVEMBER 2012

Justice Delayed

Why is it so hard to figure out who killed Christopher Stevens?

BY MARTHA CRENSHAW | OCTOBER 4, 2012

Senate Report Says National Intelligence Fusion Centers Have Been Useless

Huge sums spent to watch flat-screen televisions and report on suspicious bass fishing in Mexico.

BY R. JEFFREY SMITH AT THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | OCTOBER 3, 2012

The General's Gambit

Petraeus tried to warn Assad about the foreign fighters in Iraq. Now they're coming for him.

BY MICHAEL R. GORDON, WESLEY S. MORGAN | OCTOBER 1, 2012

The Spies Next Door

The top 10 Beltway intel centers hiding in plain sight.

BY MATTHEW M. AID | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

History Repeats Itself as Tragedy

The must-read secret Pentagon memo on Syria's 1982 massacre.

BY TOM BLANTON | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Shadow Wars

What's the difference between a spook and a special operator?

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Langley Goes Hollywood

Are America's spies watching too many spy movies?

BY AMY ZEGART | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Trending Upward

How the intelligence community can better see into the future.

BY MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ, PHILIP E. TETLOCK | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tensions in September

BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Strategic Error

When the big picture misses the point.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 24, 2012

Militant Reaffirms Role of Pakistan in Mumbai Attacks

U.S. and Indian officials say weeks of interrogating Zabiuddin Ansari yielded new evidence that Pakistani intelligence officers helped plan and direct the 2008 terror onslaught that cost six Americans and 160 others their lives.

BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | AUGUST 9, 2012

August Heats Up

Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012

Spooked

Israel's former military intelligence chief sounds off on Syria and other regional dangers facing the Jewish state.

BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY, ORIT PERLOV | JULY 25, 2012