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• CIA Tackles Climate Change and Its Risk to National Security

  BNET - 2009-09-29

  The Central Intelligence Agency -- the country's first line of defense -- will add rising sea levels, desertification and population shifts caused by climate change as one more potential threat to national security. The CIA announced recently it will open the Center on Climate Change and National...

  Tags: Security, CIA, Climate Change, Intelligence Agency, Kirsten Korosec

• Jose Rodriguez, Former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, Joins National Interest Security Company

  - 2008-10-07

  FAIRFAX, Va. -- National Interest Security Company, LLC, ("NISC") announced today that Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, has joined NISC as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Rodriguez will immediately bolster NISC's capabilities in helping the company's intelligence community, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland...

  Tags: CIA, director, SECURITY, Strategy

• John Crisp: Old school guidance about new Cold War

  - 2008-08-27

  RUSSIA'S INVASION OF Georgia coincided with my reading of a couple of books that turned out to be instructive about that event: "When Presidents Lie," by Eric Alterman; and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes," a history of the Central Intelligence Agency. These books...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Georgia, Leadership, missile, Russia, SECURITY

• Pakistan intelligence rift shows deepening US frustration: analysts

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — A reported rift between the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies reflects deepening US frustration over Islamabad's role in a worsening insurgency in Afghanistan, analysts said here. Suspicions about Pakistani intentions have grown in recent weeks following a suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, a...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, CIA, Pakistan, SECURITY

• USS Cole demands justice

  - 2008-07-09

  Nearly eight years ago, 17 American sailors were killed and dozens wounded when the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, was attacked while it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. This past week, the Pentagon announced it will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi...

  Tags: attack, CIA, Pentagon, SECURITY

• Upbeat CIA says Al-Qaeda is on the ropes

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda is near defeat in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and is on the defensive even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border, CIA chief Michael Hayden said in an interview published Friday. The assessment was one of the most upbeat by a top intelligence official...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, defeat, Iraq, Pakistan, SECURITY

• Upbeat CIA assessment on Al-Qaeda challenged

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON, May 30, 2008 AFP — CIA director Michael Hayden came under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, said Hayden's upbeat appraisal was not consistent with intelligence assessments...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, CIA, director, Pakistan, SECURITY

• The Al Qaeda weapons race continues: Osama Bin Laden's infamous 'sorcerer', Midhat Mursi Al Sayyid Umar, comes back from the dead and rekindles new fears that jihadists are pursuing chemical, biological and radiological weapons

  - 2008-05-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE EGYPTIAN KNOWN as Midhat Mursi Al Sayyid Umar was supposed to be dead, killed in a US missile strike on suspected terrorists in Pakistan's turbulent northwestern tribal belt on 13 January, 2006. Pakistani generals claimed he was one of several senior Al Qaeda figures slain by...

  Tags: attack, CIA, SECURITY

• With A Quiet Blessing, U.S. Attacks On Al Qaeda Spike

  - 2008-03-31

  The United States has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets along Pakistan’s rugged border area, a measure that in the past drew protests from President Pervez Musharraf but now has his government’s tacit approval. Since January, missiles reportedly fired from CIA operated Predator drones...

  Tags: attack, CIA, Government, Pakistan, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Statement by the Press Secretary

  - 2008-03-11

  WASHINGTON -- Today the House of Representatives failed to override the President's veto of the Intelligence Authorization Bill. The President believes that he has no higher responsibility than protecting the American people. The President also believes in making sure the Intelligence Community has the tools necessary to protect America from...

  Tags: attack, CIA, president, SECURITY