Tag: CIA
CIA to build its own Chat-GPT-style AI bot for investigations: Report
According to a Bloomberg report, the CIA plans to equip its analysts with the new AI tool to better access open-source intelligence. This includes sif [...]
Gina Haspel Observed Waterboarding at C.I.A. Black Site, Psychologist Testifies
WASHINGTON — During Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing to become director of the C.I.A. in 2018, Senator Dianne Feinstein asked her if she had oversee [...]
David C. MacMichael, C.I.A. Whistleblower, Dies at 95
Congress rejected Reagan’s request for more aid to the contras. Cut off, the administration turned to an illegal effort, already established, to sell [...]
C.I.A. Captive Was Too Small for Waterboard, Interrogator Testifies
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The psychologist who for the C.I.A. waterboarded a prisoner accused of plotting the U.S.S. Cole bombing testified this week tha [...]
C.I.A. Director Says Putin Might Consider Nuclear Weapons
WASHINGTON — The director of the C.I.A. said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s “potential desperation” to extract the semblance o [...]
CIA director tests positive for Covid-19
Burns most recently saw President Joe Biden in a socially distanced meeting on Wednesday morning, during which Burns was wearing an N-95 mask, accord [...]
William Burns, Head of the CIA, Tests Positive For Covid
William J. Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, a day after meeting with President [...]
U.S. Official Ends Sentence of Terrorist Who Was Tortured by C.I.A.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A confessed courier for Al Qaeda whose tale of torture by the C.I.A. disgusted a U.S. military jury has completed his prison se [...]
U.S. Official Ends Sentence of Terrorist Who Was Tortured by C.I.A.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A confessed courier for Al Qaeda whose tale of torture by the C.I.A. disgusted a U.S. military jury has completed his prison se [...]
The Supreme Court will pretend not to know that the CIA tortured people in Poland
There’s no reasonable doubt that Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, a Palestinian man who is often referred to as “Abu Zubaydah,” was held by the Cent [...]
C.I.A. Black Sites Are State Secrets, the Supreme Court Rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors [...]
C.I.A. Is Collecting in Bulk Certain Data Affecting Americans, Senators Warn
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has for years been collecting in bulk, without a warrant, some kind of data that can affect Americans’ pr [...]
Most ‘Havana Syndrome’ Cases Unlikely Caused by Foreign Power, C.I.A. Says
The agency has never accused Russia or another power of being responsible, but some officials, particularly in the Pentagon, said they believed there [...]
Most ‘Havana Syndrome’ Cases Unlikely Caused by Foreign Power, C.I.A. Says
The agency has never accused Russia or another power of being responsible, but some officials, particularly in the Pentagon, said they believed there [...]
U.S. Waited Months to Book C.I.A. Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
No explanation was offered for the delay, although the detainee processing took place after President George W. Bush announced on Sept. 6, 2006, th [...]