Did Pak provide support system to Osama?
May 3, 2011
Osama had support system in Pakistan: US
May 3, 2011
Barack Obama plans shift on drone strikes and Guantanamo Bay
Charlie Savage and Peter Baker, The New York Times | Thursday May 23, 2013
President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away...
Commentary: The CIA's Angry Birds
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times | Wednesday April 17, 2013
Over the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying killer robots executing targets around the globe.
John Brennan sworn in as CIA chief
Associated Press | Friday March 8, 2013
John Brennan has been sworn in as the director of the CIA, becoming the third key member of President Barack Obama's new national security team.
US Senate approves John Brennan as new CIA director
Reuters | Friday March 8, 2013
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed John Brennan as the Obama administration's next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of CIA pick ends after 12 hours
Agence France-Presse | Thursday March 7, 2013
A Republican senator seeking to block President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA over concerns about drone strikes on US soil completed a nearly 13-hour speaking filibuster early Thursday.
Barack Obama's CIA nominee faces tough questions from Senate Democrats
Reuters | Thursday February 7, 2013
Some of the toughest questioning of John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, may come from the president's fellow Democrats, not hostile Republicans, at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
CIA director nominee John Brennan opposes harsh interrogation techniques
Associated Press | Wednesday February 6, 2013
John Brennan, now President Barack Obama's nominee to be CIA director, sat quietly around a conference table at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va., during briefings about the capture and waterboarding of key al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah.
CIA nominee had detailed knowledge of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'
Reuters | Wednesday January 30, 2013
John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on captured terrorism suspects during an earlier stint as a top spy agency official, according t...
Barack Obama's defense pick faces rough going in Senate
Associated Press | Tuesday January 8, 2013
President Barack Obama's pick of Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon faces rough going in the Senate as a handful of Republicans quickly announced their opposition to a former GOP colleague, and several skeptical Democrats reserved judgment until the nom...
Obama picks Hagel for Defence and Brennan for CIA
Mark Landler, The New York Times | Tuesday January 8, 2013
Risking a potentially rancorous battle with Congress at the start of his second term, President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska whom Obama hailed as "the leader that our troops deserve," to be S...
Counterterror adviser to be named chief of CIA
Scott Shane, The New York Times | Monday January 7, 2013
President Barack Obama will announce Monday that John O. Brennan, his counter-terrorism adviser and a career CIA officer, is his choice to head the agency, two months after David H. Petraeus stepped down after admitting to an extramarital affair, a s...
Agence France Presse | Thursday January 17, 2013
John Brennan, who President Barack Obama is poised to pick to lead the CIA after the fall of David Petraeus, is an agency veteran who spent the last four years devising White House counterterrorism strategy.
Barack Obama taps Chuck Hagel for Pentagon, John Brennan for CIA
Associated Press | Monday January 7, 2013
President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term national security team...
Barack Obama to nominate John Brennan as CIA director
Associated Press | Monday January 7, 2013
President Barack Obama will nominate John Brennan as his next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Osama's last words to be posted online
Associated Press | Thursday May 3, 2012
The world will soon be able to read the last words of Osama bin Laden as he struggled to command the attention of his far-flung terror network.A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on bin Laden's house in Pakistan will be posted online ...
