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• Teen had assault guns, map to White House retreat: report

  - 2008-08-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Police are investigating a Washington area teenager who allegedly had amassed an arsenal of deadly assault weapons and bomb-making materials, along with a map to the US president's weekend retreat, press reports said Wednesday. Authorities said recent high school graduate Collin McKenzie-Gude -- who had a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Government, Washington, White House

• CIA leak columnist retires after 'dire' tumor diagnosis

  - 2008-08-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — Conservative US columnist Robert Novak, whose unmasking of a covert CIA agent sparked a political and legal firestorm, said Monday he was retiring after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Novak, who announced he was suffering from the tumor late last month, said the medical prognosis...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, CIA, columnist, Washington

• I Set Up My Own 'Crisis Monitoring' Operation and Gain a Vital 'Deep Throat' Source in the Process

  - 2008-07-01

  It was spring, 1958, and I had just arrived at CIA headquarters via one of the blue, unmarked buses the intelligence agency was using to transport employees and "cleared" visitors to the 37 buildings scattered around Washington. The agency was yet to establish headquarters across the Potomac in Langley, Va....

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, monitoring, U.S., Washington

• Infighting slows plans for US special forces in Pakistan

  - 2008-06-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US administration last year drew up a plan making it easier for US special forces to launch missions into Pakistani tribal areas, but internal disagreements have kept it from getting a green light. An unnamed senior defense official told the daily there was "mounting frustration"...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, CIA, Pakistan, Washington

• McClellan to testify about CIA leak case

  - 2008-06-10

  WASHINGTON AP -- President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the...

  Tags: CIA, Washington, White House

• 'Scooter' Libby stripped of his D.C. law license

  - 2008-03-21

  WASHINGTON AP -- Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative's leaked identity. The disbarment order of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had been...

  Tags: CIA, conviction, Government, Leadership, Washington

• US universities turn schools for spies and more

  - 2008-03-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — That young American exchange student who stayed with you last summer to do a language immersion course could be part of a new program to educate the next generation of US intelligence agents. But don't worry: even if she does end up working for the CIA,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Government, HARDWARE, MARKETING, Semiconductors, Trinity University, Washington

• US blames oversight for not revealing terror suspect flights

  - 2008-02-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States admitted for the first time Thursday it used British soil to transfer terror suspects but said the two cases five years ago had not surfaced until now because of recording errors. The British government -- a key US ally that has always denied...

  Tags: CIA, Government, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, U.S., Washington

• Italy's Prodi, Bush to meet in Washington next month

  - 2008-01-21

  ROME AFP — Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will meet US President George W. Bush next month during his first visit to Washington since taking office almost two years ago, his press department announced Monday. Prodi will arrive on February 3 and leave the US capital after his meeting...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, agent, CIA, Italy, Rome, Washington

• Moussaoui lawyers file appeal argument

  - 2008-01-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the attacks of September 11, 2001, said Friday they have filed a 202-page appeal to his sentence of life in prison. The document, which was filed late Thursday in the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, is...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, CIA, MARKETING, SECURITY, Washington