In 2003, he made the case for invading Iraq to halt its weapons programs. The analysts who provided the intelligence now say it was doubted inside the C.I.A. at ...
The never-before-released images, taken by Vice President Cheney's staff photographer, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by ...
WASHINGTON, April 26 — George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush ...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday said the administration did not use former CIA Director George Tenet's "slam dunk" comment as the reason to ...
Robert Draper has written an authoritative account of the deceit and misjudgments that the George W. Bush administration used to lead America to a ruinous ...
In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence ...
In the period leading up to the Iraq war, the head of the CIA didn't speak out loudly enough about U.S. intelligence that said Saddam Hussein did not have ...
Top Bush administration officials gave the CIA approval to use waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique, as early as 2002, a Senate intelligence ...
In his much-anticipated and intermittently fascinating new memoir, “At the Center of the Storm,” George Tenet writes that the words “slam dunk” were taken out of ...
Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. Most of the major players in.
With his famous "slam dunk" comment about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, George Tenet helped shape the arguments that led the United ...
The ex-FBI agent uncovered crucial information about terrorist plots and has pushed for government transparency since Bush. He weighs in on the so-called ...
Sixteen years after the invasion of Iraq, a top aide to George W. Bush blamed the intelligence community. But the White House spin machine played a big role ...
Ending two years of silence on his role in the Iraq war, former CIA Director George J. Tenet is using a new book and a barrage of upcoming television ...
With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program “60 Minutes” the ...
(Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to investigate 21 former U.S. officials, including former President George W.
A NYT Magazine piece on Colin Powell and the case to invade Iraq highlights an NIE that was prepared not to determine the truth, but rather to “justify” ...
Editor's note: Have you ever wondered if the movie you just saw — that claimed to be based on a real story or historical events — was really accurate? So have ...
In his upcoming memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney reveals internal battles within the Bush administration and criticizes onetime colleagues George ...
Ari Fleischer is a liar. He lies about stuff big and small. And as President George W. Bush's press secretary during the run-up to the Iraq War, he participated in a ...
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews journalist Robert Draper, author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took ...
Robert Draper, a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine spoke with Business Insider about his new book "To Start a War: How the Bush Administration ...
George J. Tenet, known for fierce loyalty, is working on a memoir to polish his legacy, settle scores, and explain just what he meant when he said that Iraq's ...
The recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to authorize Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan includes ...
Editorial says it is clear from indictment of Lewis Libby for allegedly outing CIA agent Valerie Wilson that Vice Pres Cheney's office was command bunker for ...
The best estimates available suggest that more than 250,000 people have died as a result of George W. Bush and Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
If foreign travel is in George Tenet's Christmas plans, he may want to reconsider. Human rights groups bayed last week for former top CIA and Bush-era officials ...
On the evening of the 2000 presidential election, as the vote counting stretched late into the night, a weary Dick Cheney slipped into his hotel room in Austin to ...
A Senate investigation says President George W. Bush was not briefed on the specifics of how the CIA interrogated terrorism suspects until four years into the ...
Colin Powell has called his 2003 speech to the United Nations, laying out the Bush administration's rationale for war in Iraq, a “blot” on his record. The speech ...
The New York Times Magazine on Friday posted “Colin Powell Still Wants Answers,” a long article by Robert Draper to appear in Sunday's edition. The - Ray ...
Even before the U.S. Senate intelligence committee released the explosive CIA torture report on Tuesday, Bush administration officials were already dismissing ...
At a ceremony that took on the air of a Republican family reunion complete with laughs, hugs and selfies, Dick Cheney was hailed Thursday as his bust was ...
Here's a look at the life of Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States. Personal:Birth date: January 30, 1941 Birth place: Lincoln, Nebraska Birth ...
Writer/director Adam McKay's Vice, an all-star biographical movie about Dick Cheney is among Hollywood's top 2018 political pictures. It's utterly uncanny how ...
As George W. Bush's national security adviser and then secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice has long been seen as the toughest woman in American politics.
Declassified CIA documents reveal a deadly security state operating far outside the bounds of democratic control. Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael ...
Andrew Bacevich has a wonderful essay, in the form of an open letter to Paul Wolfowitz, in the current Harper's. You have to subscribe to read it -- but, hey, you ...
In Oliver Stone's movie “W. ,” there's a scene in which the president, played by Josh Brolin, reacts to a Wall Street Journal piece skeptical of the Iraq war written ...
Howard Schultz, the former-Starbucks CEO mulling a 2020 presidential bid, claimed during a CNN Town Hall that he doesn't “see color.” This is false — Schultz ...
A retired CIA official has accused the Bush administration of ignoring intelligence indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and no active nuclear ...
The former top Senate Intelligence Committee investigator discusses the yearslong battle to make public the findings of the still-classified torture report.
IF, as J.F.K. had it, victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan, the defeat in Iraq is the most pitiful orphan imaginable. Its parents have not only tossed ...
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, stopped in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Bellevue, Nebraska, ...
Reuters During his time in the White House, President George W. Bush was known for his love of giving other people nicknames — "Pootie Poot" (Russian ...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz Cheney, are likening President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran to the Munich agreement that ...
The tension and anxiety of the Bush administration in the hours after the terror attacks of September 11 2001 is revealed for the first time in an extraordinary set ...
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise ...
Correction Appended. In Bob Woodward's highly anticipated new book, “State of Denial,” President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and ...
WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a ...
UPDATE: Condoleeza Rice will not be the next coach of the Cleveland Browns football team. The former Secretary of State responded to the ESPN story that ...
Libby, chief of staff to vice president Cheney, was convicted of perjury, but he was not the source of the article that first disclosed a CIA operative's name.
By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by ...
The University of Minnesota apparently has a short and incomplete memory of Condoleezza Rice's role as national security advisor and Secretary of State in the ...
Buried in the pages of the 525-page executive summary of the so-called CIA torture report is a timeline showing when former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney ...
When we decided to live stream the RUDU/RUSA debate on Thursday, I was glad Muckgers would be giving students who were unable to attend the event an ...
According to the Office of the Secretary of the University, “One of the most prestigious honors any university can bestow is an honorary degree.” An honorary ...
Diplomat Joseph Wilson, whose disagreements with the George W. Bush administration led to his then-wife Valerie Plame being outed as a CIA agent, died ...
Reopening businesses is only half the battle. Consumers will also need to be convinced it's safe to leave their homes and head down to the store. A *fresh* ...
Did America's supposed ally Saudi Arabia secretly support the 9/11 hijackers? In an adaptation from their new book, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan ...
Jean Edward Smith's biography of George W. Bush goes on sale a day before the former President's seventieth birthday, and it's safe to say that no one will be ...
An article in the NYT Magazine on Sunday tells us how the CIA helped cook the evidence to invade Iraq and why Colin Powell should have resigned rather than ...
In an editorial board piece published Sunday, The New York Times called for criminal prosecution of former Vice President Dick Cheney and others featured in ...
Why has it become impossible to admit a mistake in Washington and accept the consequences? The last time a senior government official quit over his own job ...
While most of her career as a CIA operative remains secret, newly available documents shed light on a pivotal moment in the career of President Donald ...
Witnesses tell independent commission investigating Sept 11 terrorist attacks that Pres Bush was warned repeatedly about threats, mostly overseas; Richard A ...
Journalist Bob Woodward calls his new book, "Plan of Attack," the first detailed, behind-the-scenes account of how and why the president decided to wage war in ...
Exclusive: A decade ago, President George W. Bush was hurtling toward an aggressive war against a country not threatening the United States. Only a few ...
A couple of weeks ago, some members of Congress let it be known that Leon Panetta, the director of the C.I.A., had confessed something to them. Panetta …
