Author: Joby Warrick
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How killing the nuclear deal could make it easier for Iran to pursue the bomb in secret
VIENNA — In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran’s most sensitive factories and research labs. But perhaps not for much longer. Every day, workers arrive at the United Nations nuclear agency here to monitor…
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Head of Pentagon’s secret ‘UFO’ office sought to make evidence public
Just before leaving his Defense Department job two months ago, intelligence officer Luis Elizondo quietly arranged to secure the release of three of the most unusual videos in the Pentagon’s secret vaults: raw footage from encounters between fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles” — military jargon for UFOs. The videos, all taken from cockpit cameras,…
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North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn in new assessment
North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks the timeline for when Pyongyang could strike North American cities with atomic weapons. The new assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which shaves a…
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CIA used gun, drill in interrogation
WASHINGTON — CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured al-Qaida commander into giving up information, according to a long-concealed agency report due to be made public next week, former and current U.S. officials who have read the document said Friday.The tactics — which one official described Friday…
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Interviews offer nuanced look at roles of CIA contractors in interrogations
In April 2002, as the terrorism suspect known as Abu Zubaida lay in a Bangkok hospital bed, top U.S. counterterrorism officials gathered at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., for a series of meetings on an urgent problem: how to get him to talk.Put him in a cell filled with cadavers, was one suggestion, according to…