Is Now The Time To Shift The CIA Away From Drone Strikes?

C.I.A. to Focus More on Spying, a Difficult Shift -- New York Times WASHINGTON — For more than seven years, Mike — a lean, chain-smoking off...

Should The CIA Be Responsible For Targeted Killings?

  Should CIA Be Targeting Terrorists? -- Michael Hayden, CNN Contributor  (CNN) -- On a hot summer day in early August, 2008, the secure Red...

Should President Obama Take The Drones Away From The CIA

Clip The Agency's Wings -- Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy Why Obama needs to take the drones away from the CIA. Among the 9/11 Commission...

How The CIA Transformed Into A Para-Military Organization

Cowboys and Eggheads -- Bill Kellerr, New York Times My Times colleague Mark Mazzetti has a new book out that is getting a lot of attention,...

Is The CIA Headed In The Wrong Direction?

CIA Headed In The Wrong General Direction -- Roy A. Harrell Jr. Agency should not be paramilitary force. More than 50 years ago, my resignat...

Why President Obama Should Not Appoint A General To Run The CIA

Why Generals Shouldn't Run The CIA -- Amy B. Zegart, Foreign Policy As the Petraeus scandal unfolded, we got a crash course on the Tampa...

Will President Obama Rethink The CIA?

President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a memorial service at the CIA in Langley, Va., Feb. 5, 2010. (Official White House Photo by P...

Attorney General Eric Holder Two-Year Investigation On CIA Misdeeds Come Up Short -- A Commentary

Attorney General Eric Holder Wasted A Two-Year Investigation On CIA Misdeeds That Never Happened -- New York Daily News editorial A special ...

How Prepared Is The CIA And Pentagon For The Next Crisis?

Will The CIA And Pentagon Be Ready For The Next Crisis? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post As Leon Panetta and David Petraeus move into thei...

Has Morale Returned To The CIA?

Leon Panetta Gets The CIA Back On Its Feet -- David Ignatius, Washington Post CIA Director Leon Panetta has a new trophy in his seventh-floo...

Who Will Want To Work For The CIA After Today? -- A Commentary

Attorney General Eric Holder. AP Prosecuting the CIA -- Wall Street Journal Eric Holder unleashes a special counsel on U.S. war fighters. ...

Hayden Says Congress Damages CIA

From The Washington Times: When CIA officers went to work at the Langley headquarters last Tuesday, the first item in the daily press summar...

Intelligence Under Siege -- A Commentary

From The Washington Times: America's spy agencies are being undermined. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's war with the CIA could not come...

What Releasing the CIA Memos is Really About -- A Commentary

From The American Thinker: It's realistic, not cynical, to assume political entities generally act out of their own self-interests. And ...

Why Panetta Is the Wrong Man to Lead CIA -- A Commentary

From Pajamas Media: On the morning of December 31, 1941, the flag of a four-star Navy admiral flew from the mast of the submarine USS Grayli...

Let's Give the CIA Its Due -- A Commentary

CIA Memorial In The Lobby From The Wall Street Journal: Terrorists haven't been 'lucky' here since 9/11. Richard M. Helms, the f...