Prosecutors say Terry never registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
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CIA nominee Haspel wins Senate panel backing; confirmation expected
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, won the backing of the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday, paving the way for her expected confirmation to lead the spy agency. The panel voted 10-5 to advise the full Senate to confirm Haspel, whose nomination has renewed debate over the harsh […]
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Susan Collins to vote for Trump’s nominee to lead CIA; Angus King to vote no
Maine’s senators split on their support for Gina Haspel’s nomination by President Trump to become the next director of the CIA, with Sen. Susan Collins saying she will vote for Haspel’s confirmation and Sen. Angus King saying he will vote against it. Collins, a Republican, and King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, both issued […]
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Collins, King under pressure to oppose controversial CIA director nominee
Maine’sU.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King are coming under pressure from human rights groups who oppose Gina Haspel’s nomination to be director of the CIA, citing her role in the agency’s detention and “enhanced interrogation” of suspected terrorists in the wake of 9/11. Haspel, a 33-year veteran of the CIA and its current deputy […]
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Donald Trump nominates Gina Haspel to head CIA
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated CIA veteran Gina Haspel to be the spy agency’s next director, tapping a woman who spent multiple tours overseas and is respected by the workforce but is deeply tied to the agency’s use of brutal interrogation measures on terrorism suspects. Haspel, 61, would become the first woman to lead […]
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One Marine's mission: To honor a hero at Bates College
Steven Arango never met Capt. George “Alexi” Whitney, but he still feels a connection to the late Bates College graduate. Having spent a semester at Bates, Arango understands the commitment required by Whitney to have graduated cum laude from Bates in 2000. But the greater connection is that both men served in the U.S. Marines […]
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Barack Obama tried to secretly punish Russia for election assault
WASHINGTON — Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior aides. Inside was an intelligence bombshell, a report drawn from sourcing deep inside […]
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WikiLeaks says it has obtained trove of CIA hacking tools
WASHINGTON — The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks said Tuesday that it has obtained a vast portion of the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal, and began posting the files online in a breach that may expose some of the U.S. intelligence community’s most closely guarded cyber weapons. WikiLeaks touted its trove as exceeding in scale and significance the […]
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Trump asks Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, Mike Pompeo to head CIA
InsideGov | Graphiq President-elect Donald Trump has offered the position of attorney general to Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and the position of CIA director to Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., according to sources close to the transition. Sessions’s offer was finalized Thursday and the senator has been working with staff to lay the groundwork for an […]
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Why the CIA has briefed presidential candidates since Eisenhower
Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, up to speed on problems around the globe. Truman, who was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president for almost three months before Roosevelt died, first learned about the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb […]