WHO WAS OSAMA? WHO IS OBAMA?
While the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama "celebrates" the first anniversary of the alleged death of bin Laden, the substantive issue as to WHO...
View ArticleDid CIA and State Department Run Illegal Arms Trafficking in Benghazi?
New details have emerged that shed light on the chaos that embroiled the Benghazi mission on 9/11/2012 that led to the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans at the hands...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker accuses Obama officials seeing 'what they wanted' in Libya...
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, in an interview with Fox News, suggested the Obama administration politicized the intelligence in the immediate aftermath of the deadly consulate...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker accuses Obama officials of seeing 'what they wanted' in Libya...
State Department defends Susan Rice Why hasn't FBI been granted access to site of Libya attack? House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, in an interview with Fox News, suggested the Obama...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Rumsfeld Hits Obama
Follow @BillGertz Rumsfeld Hits Obama Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld blamed President Obama’s apologies and policies of blaming America for the ills of the world as the root cause behind...
View ArticleCIA boss says al-Qaeda weaker since 9/11, but still far from defeat
AMERICA's top two intelligence officials say al-Qaeda is weaker and US intelligence agencies are smarter since the September 11 attacks 10 years ago, but the terrorists are nowhere near giving up. In...
View ArticleClapper widens audience for Benghazi tape
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View Article9/11 Foreknowledge and "Intelligence Failures": "Revealing the Lies" on 9/11...
Author's Note The following article, first published in May 2004, was part of my keynote presentation at the opening plenary session to the International Citizens Inquiry into 9/11. Toronto, 25-30...
View ArticleInside the Ring: China launcher proliferation
Follow @BillGertz China Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit the United States this week and is expected to face questioning on the presence of a Chinese-made mobile strategic-missile launcher...
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Follow @BillGertz BAD NEWS FOR ‘RESET’ U.S. intelligence agencies threw cold water on the President Obama’s thus-far-unsuccessful effort to “reset” relations with Russia by making concessions to...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Iraq backing Iran
Follow @BillGertz Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government, led by President Nouri al-Maliki, continues to align itself more closely with neighboring Iran. According to U.S. defense officials, including one...
View ArticleTough Choice for Obama on Petraeus' Successor
In choosing a new CIA director to replace David Petraeus, President Barack Obama has a range of well-qualified candidates to choose from, although some of the most qualified were in management roles...
View ArticlePentagon eyed Al Qaeda early as attacker on U.S. Consulate
Follow @roscarborough The day after the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, military intelligence was spreading the word inside the Pentagon that an al Qaeda-linked group was...
View ArticleGOP riled at intel’s early edits on Libya
Follow @dsherfinski Leading Republicans reacted angrily to an admission Tuesday by President Obama’s director of national intelligence that his office scrubbed references to al Qaeda’s role in the...
View ArticleU.S. knew for years of Benghazi extremism
Senior State Department, defense and intelligence officials were well aware that Benghazi and its surrounding area harbored al Qaeda-linked extremists long before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the...
View ArticleInside the Ring: New WMD threats
Follow @BillGertz A Pentagon-sponsored report warns that the United States faces new threats from mass destruction weapons in the form of cyber, electronic and financial attacks, in addition to more...
View ArticleSoldier, Thinker, Hunter, Spy: Drawing a Bead on Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON — Every day, Michael G. Vickers gets an update on how many in Al Qaeda’s senior leadership the United States has removed from the battlefield, and lately there has been much to report. Al...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Ideological war on terror needed
Follow @BillGertz The U.S. military made impressive gains on the battlefield and covertly in countering Islamist terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the military and government at large...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Benghazigate debate heats up
Follow @BillGertz The presidential debate Tuesday between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney added new life to the fierce debate over the Obama administration’s mishandling of the...
View ArticleCold War strategist Ikle dies; ex-Pentagon leader
Follow @BillGertz Fred Charles Ikle, one of the key Pentagon strategists who helped win the Cold War during the Reagan administration, died Nov. 10. He was 87. Mr. Ikle died of complications from a...
View ArticleInside the Ring: CIA director battle
Follow @BillGertz Pentagon intelligence official Michael Vickers and National Security Council counterterrorism adviser John Brennan are being looked at by President Obama as top candidates to head...
View ArticleUS senator threatens delay on CIA nominee
US President Barack Obama’s choice of John Brennan to be the next CIA director hit a snag on Tuesday as a Republican senator threatened to delay the nomination until the Obama administration provides...
View ArticleInside the Ring: CIA in Benghazi
Facebook Follow @washtimes Do you think Reince Priebus should remain as chairman of the Republican National Committee? View results Congressional testimony from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
View ArticleVote on Brennan for CIA post put off
Facebook Follow @washtimes A GOP draft bill in the Senate would temporarily avoid sequestration and force President Obama to prioritize cuts. It would also cede some of the ‘power of the purse’ to the...
View ArticleCyber-attacks a bigger threat than Al Qaeda, officials say
WASHINGTON — Cyber-attacks and cyber-espionage pose a greater potential danger to U.S. national security than Al Qaeda and other militants that have dominated America's global focus since Sept. 11,...
View ArticleBlowback and the Cycle of Violence
The United States and the Central Intelligence Agency have never acknowledged the potential for “blowback,” or negative fallout, from their military and covert actions. The Watergate burglary by the...
View ArticleThe Blowback from Interventionism
The United States and the Central Intelligence Agency have never acknowledged the potential for “blowback,” or negative fallout, from their military and covert actions. Yet, the Watergate burglary by...
View ArticleUsing drones and military, U.S. shows it will take down terrorists worldwide
Facebook Follow @washtimes Should furloughed government employees receive full pay when the shutdown ends? Login to Vote View results Current and former intelligence officials said Monday that the...
View ArticleFor Susan Rice, This Terror War Just Turned Personal
The covert raid in Tripoli this weekend that nabbed an al Qaeda operative with links to the devastating 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is more than just a professional...
View ArticleU.S. military commandos made it to Benghazi
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will mounting political pressure force the White House to fire Kathleen Sebelius? Login to Vote View results Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military’s elite...
View ArticleFlow of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria could land in hands of al Qaeda
Facebook Follow @washtimes Was Rush Limbaugh correct when he said the GOP "betrayed" Ken Cuccinelli? Login to Vote View results One of terrorism’s most feared weapons, the shoulder-fired anti-aircraft...
View ArticleCURL: The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will U.S. military might be the envy of the world 50 years from now? Login to Vote View results ANALYSIS/OPINION: Another day, another revelation on Benghazi. SEE ALSO:...
View ArticleSenate Benghazi report lays blame on the State Dept & CIA
A bipartisan Senate report on the 9-11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya was released last week. Committee Chairwoman, California Senator Diane Feinstein concluded that the intelligence community...
View ArticleInside the Ring: Obama reassesses al Qaeda
Facebook Follow @washtimes What did you think of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night? Login to Vote View results President Obama has dialed back his earlier optimistic...
View ArticleCyber attacks more dangerous to US security than al-Qaida, intel officials say
WASHINGTON — Cyber attacks and cyber espionage pose a greater potential danger to U.S. national security than al-Qaida and other militants that have dominated America’s global focus since Sept. 11,...
View ArticleThe Why Behind the Benghazi Attack
Nearly two months ago, on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, a group of militants attacked the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, killing the US ambassador to Libya and three other...
View ArticleRepublican senator threatens to block Obama's CIA nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican senator threatened on Tuesday to block the confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA until the administration provides more information to...
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