Intelligence

The Year in Quotes

The 20 most puzzling, hypocritical, and revealing things said about U.S. foreign policy in 2012.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 28, 2012

Lingering Questions on Benghazi

This week's report on the Obama administration's actions in Libya was credible but incomplete.

BY DARRELL ISSA | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Zero Farce Thirty

The man who nearly stopped 9/11 tells FP why Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden gets it wrong.  

INTERVIEW BY TY MCCORMICK | DECEMBER 19, 2012

Spoiler Alert

I know counterterrorism and the CIA -- and almost everything in Homeland is ridiculous. But I'm still watching.

BY BRUCE HOFFMAN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

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