Author: Adam Goldman
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CIA Director Petraeus resigns over affair with biographer
WASHINGTON — David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned Friday as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair. The affair was discovered during an FBI investigation, according to officials briefed on the developments. They spoke on condition of anonymity…
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AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions
WASHINGTON — In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan. But he was the wrong guy.…
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Terrorist tapes found under CIA desk
WASHINGTON — The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspected terrorists. The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the only remaining…
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CIA tracks Al-Qaida moving from Iran
WASHINGTON — It is one of the enduring mysteries of the war on terrorism: What will become of the al-Qaida leaders and operatives who fled to Iran after Sept. 11, 2001, and have been detained there for years? Their fate has long been a blindspot for U.S. intelligence. Recently, however, some al-Qaida figures have…
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CIA attack a blow, but U.S. anti-terror hunt continues
WASHINGTON — The deaths of seven CIA employees in Afghanistan probably will not be the last. The U.S. is not pulling back on covert operations to hunt terrorists there and in Pakistan and will go on taking chances on human tipsters to help. In fact, the United States struck back at militant targets in Pakistan…
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Suicide bomber was invited onto base
WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it…
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Dead pilot’s wife: He was in ‘perfect health’
NEWARK, N.J. – The Continental Airlines pilot who died on a trans-Atlantic flight from Brussels to Newark was in “perfect health” and fellow crew members initially thought he had just fallen asleep, his wife told a Houston television station. Craig Lenell, 60, had no known heart condition and underwent twice-a-year physicals, Lynda Lenell told KHOU-TV.…