Remember yesterday when the media reported that Hosni Mubarak was likely to resign by the end of the day, based largely on Congressional testimony by CIA Director Leon Panetta? Well, it turns out that Panetta wasn’t exactly relying on his morning briefing when he made that prediction: Mr. Obama watched Mr. Mubarak’s speech on board [...]

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

Efforts to prosecute Julian Assange or anyone else affiliated with Wikileaks in connection with Pfc. Bradley Manning’s apparent theft of thousands of classified documents may have been dealt a significant setback: U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking [...]

The U.S. State Department says that the massive dump of diplomatic cables via Wikileaks late last year has not done any real damage to U.S. foreign policy: The damage caused by the WikiLeaks controversy has caused little real and lasting damage to American diplomacy, senior state department officials have concluded. It emerged in private briefings [...]

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

While the United States ponders what if anything it can do about the fact that Wikileaks has made tens of thousands of classified documents available to the world, the site is inspiring copycats that make it clear that shutting down Wikileaks itself isn’t going to kill the idea: In an interview last month with Forbes [...]

There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.

In the face of international pressure and a pending, though unrelated, Interpol arrest warrant, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has readied what some are calling a poison Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay. One of [...]

The Obama administration is banning hundreds of thousands of federal employees from calling up the WikiLeaks site on government computers because the leaked material is still formally regarded as classified.

The editors of the Washington Post want you to know that “Fair Game,” the new movie about the Valerie Plame affair, is “Hollywood myth making.” Propaganda and lies is more like it.

The Pentagon could have taken down WikiLeaks but decided not to. Out of kindness, I suppose.

In a press briefing yesterday afternoon Defense Secretary Bob Gates issued a candid assessment on WikiLeaks. But let me — let me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. Every other government in the world knows the United States government leaks like a sieve, and it has for a [...]

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

A crippling, and technologically advanced, computer virus and attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists lead to only one conclusion; someone is doing everything they can short of military action to make sure Iran doesn’t develop nuclear weapons.

The choice is between a world in which officials can share information and carry out reasoned debates with one another and a world in which nothing can be written down.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

North Korea has unveiled to the world a new nuclear processing facility that puts back on the table the question of just what we should, or can, do about the fact that a rogue state possesses nuclear weapons and wants to build more.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

The Pentagon is looking at a system that would flag suspicious access to data, similar to the alerts by credit cards companies designed to prevent fraudulent charges.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?

The Obama administration has persuaded the nation’s most liberal appellate court that the executive branch’s right to secrecy trumps the rights of people claiming they were tortured by the United States Government.

Fareed Zakaria argues that the fact al Qaeda has not launched a major attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 proves we overreacted to those attacks. I beg to differ.

The Pentagon, responding to obvious flaws in its security revealed by the WikiLeaks debacle, is working on a data mining program that will monitor employee behavior for suspicious activity.

It seems Anna Chapman, who made headlines in the U.S. for her role in a Russian spy ring, has settled into a new career back in Moscow: MOSCOW – Glamorous Russian agent Anna Chapman has posed provocatively for a Russian magazine shoot in her first public appearance since she was deported from the United States [...]

Critics of WikiLeaks have no affirmative proof that the release of tens of thousands of classified documents has gotten anyone killed. The truth is that we’ll likely never know.

OTB’s James Joyner and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald discuss WikiLeaks and its implications for journalism on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.”

Glenn Greenwald asks, “Why won’t the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents?” For the same reason we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

Humor me for a moment: if your life was in danger, would you trust Julian Assange to keep your identity a secret? – Joshua Foust

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

The members of the Russian spy ring broken up last week by the FBI are headed back to Mother Russia.

Did the American media cover up torture by the Bush Administration?

While the Russian “spy ring” seems to be much less than meets the eye, one of the people caught up in the arrests is getting a lot of press today: She came from Russia, with love. The sexy suspected spy who the feds say was sent to New York to gather intel on the United [...]

Ten Russian agents posing as Americans and living in the suburbs of DC, New York, and Boston for a decade to glean valuable intelligence have been arrested by the FBI.

As more information has come to light, my choice of the word “lie” and its variants overstates the case.  See additional information at end of post. Yet another politician has been caught lying about his military service.   As well documented here, Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic candidate for Chris Dodd’s Senate seat, repeatedly lied about serving [...]

A report to the U.N. by special rapporteur New York University law professor Philip Alston suggests that the Obama Administration’s program to have CIA agents remote pilot drone strikes in Pakistan should be disbanded in favor of putting the operation in the hands of the military. A soon-to-be-released United Nations report will call into question [...]

While a recent New America Foundation study found that 30 percent of those killed by drone strikes in Pakistan are civilians, a new study by Bryan Glyn Williams finds the real number is a tenth that. Spencer Ackerman, who has obtained an advanced copy, reports: Much like the New America Foundation study, Williams’ team relied [...]

So it appears that Darrel Issa has requested that the FBI investigate that non-illegal, politics-as-usual act of offering Joe Sestak a job. Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, Friday asked the FBI to begin a criminal investigation into efforts by the White House to convince Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) to [...]

The Obama Administration is releasing its long-awaited National Security Strategy today.  Josh Rogin and others have a sneak preview. I’ll be doing more substantive commentary once I’ve had a chance to digest the whole 52-page document.  In the meantime, I’ve compiled a roundup post at New Atlanticist titled “National Security Strategy Instant Reactions.” My main [...]

Breaking over the wires that Dennis Blair is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence after only 16 months on the job.   AP’s Eileen Sullivan: Dennis Blair, President Obama’s national intelligence director, is resigning after a 16-month tenure marked by turf wars among the country’s spy agencies. Blair, a retired admiral, is the third director [...]

The headline “New U.S. Airport Security Measures To Use ‘Real-Time’ Intelligence” caused a chuckle when I saw it on the RFE/RL Twitter feed.  Not to overly disparage the TSA’s screeners, intelligence agents they ain’t.  But a description of the program makes it sound like a step in the right direction. The U.S. Department of Homeland [...]

The defection of a top Iranian nuclear scientist has confirmed what we already knew. An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials. The officials were said to have termed [...]