Author: Ken Dilanian
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CIA director apologizes to Senate leaders for searching computers
WASHINGTON — CIA Director John Brennan apologized to Senate intelligence committee leaders after his inspector general found that CIA employees acted improperly when the CIA searched Senate computers earlier this year. Agency spokesman Dean Boyd said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that Brennan has convened an accountability board that will investigate…
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US concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter. Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations…
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The NSA is watching, but so are Google and Amazon
WASHINGTON – Not long before headlines exposed National Security Agency programs that secretly collect records of Americans’ phone calls, another surveillance system got far less attention: Nordstrom, the department store chain, acknowledged it was tracking customers without their knowledge in 17 stores. Nordstrom had hired a company to log a unique number emitted by shoppers’…
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Benghazi fracas heats up as election draws near
WASHINGTON — Maryland insurance executive Christopher Moody believes much of the news media is missing a major scandal in how the Obama administration responded to the attack in eastern Libya that killed four Americans. Based on reports he’s seen and heard on Fox News, talk radio and elsewhere, Moody is positive that officials watched a…