Eliza Relman
Central Intelligence Agency - an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Secu...
Central Intelligence Agency- an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Securi...
Background The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence co
under the bush administration and was widened by obama to allow the targeting of american citizens. drone strikes by the pentagon and the cia have sparked backlashes from foreign governments and populations, as the strikes often kill civilians, including women and children. with friday's decision,...
CIA Director, William Casey, was heartened by the attack even though it had failed and renewed his efforts to persuade Reagan to authorize specific covert action against the Libyan leader. Casey is said to have remarked:“It proves for the first time that Libyans are willing to die to get ...
Lapses on Iraq War Tenet Resigns as CIA Director; Intelligence Chief Praised by Bush, But Critics Cite Lapses on Iraq WarTenet Resigns as CIA Director; Intelligence Chief Praised by Bush, But Critics Cite Lapses on Iraq WarDana PriestWalter Pincus...
Rapp will be the first to newly assume the role since former CIA Director John Brennan's modernization push, which shifted some oversight away from larger directorates and funneled them into discrete Mission Centers focused on some of the thorniest issue areas in national security. Under that str...
UNDER CIA SUPERVISION, DETAINEES WOULD BE SLAPPED AND GRABBED; DEPRIVED OF SLEEP; FORCED ONTO LIQUID DIETS; EVEN CONFINED IN A COFFIN-LIKE BOX WITH LIVE INSECTS. MICHAEL HAYDEN | DIRECTOR, GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: There was nudity. There was water dousing, cramped confinement, stress posi...
Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director, will succeed Rex Tillerson at the State Department, in the Cabinet reshuffle, elevating Haspel. Haspel, whom under Pompeo became the agency’s deputy director, briefly ran the off-the-books prison in Thailand used as a torture laboratory for the earliest ...