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Russian Spy Babe Will Now Dress You for a 'Backwater Village'
If her personal style is anything to go by, expect former Russian spy Anna Chapman's fashion label to feature lots of leather, form-fitting dresses and of cleavage. Chapman the red-haired femme fatale...
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Does Edward Snowden Really Exist?
Here's a preview of a quote you'll probably hear on this week's edition of NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me": "You know, I have serious questions about whether he really exists." Who's the speaker?...
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Why Is Edward Snowden on a PR Blitz?
Edward Snowden has a problem: The revelations for which he abandoned his country, his girlfriend, and his career have -- so far, at least -- failed to inspire meaningful congressional or White House...
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Sex, Spies, and Videotape: Why 'House of Cards' Has Nothing on 'The Americans'
You know that Washington, D.C.-based drama, the one with all the murder, sex, intrigue, and timely political innuendoes? No, no, not House of Cards. The one with all the wigs. You know, The Americans....
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Leaked: EU Officials Speculate Kiev Snipers Acted on Protesters' Orders
With Kiev in mourning over the anti-government protesters who died while protesting against the ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, two top EU officials discussed a disturbing possibility:...
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‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency
Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have...
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Snowden Called in to Putin’s Telethon. Does That Really Make Him a Kremlin Pawn?
One of the pleasures in writing about Edward Snowden is his predilection for the absurd. The NSA whistleblower abandons his dancer girlfriend for a life in exile, hides in airports, studies...
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How Much Economic Espionage Is Too Much?
"If we spy for military security, why shouldn't we spy for economic security?" Those were the words not of an aggressive Chinese spy but none other than Stansfield Turner, the Carter-era CIA director,...
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Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald
Why did Edward Snowden betray the National Security Agency and leak a huge trove of secret documents to the media? It's a question that has been endlessly debated since stories based on those...
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Spy Agencies Counter Snowden's Whistleblower Claim
On the heels of Edward Snowden's prime-time effort to bolster his case as a conscientious defender of civil liberties, the U.S. government is pushing back on a central aspect of the whistleblower's...
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@CIA, Go Home. You're Drunk.
It's been one month since the Central Intelligence Agency joined Twitter to much ado. Whoever has been running the account appears to have been on a monthlong bender, because on Monday, @CIA decided...
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Public Interest Groups Call For Brennan's Resignation
A coalition of public service groups released a letter Tuesday calling for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan in the ongoing fallout of revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency...
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Former NSA Chief Hayden Questions Prosecution of New York Times Reporter
New York Times reporter James Risen has become one of the most prominent examples of the Obama administration's crackdown on national security leaks, but in an interview with CBS that aired Sunday...
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Does Laura Poitras's New Film Solve the Snowden Riddle?
The filmmaker Laura Poitras is concerned with the human effects of surveillance. She wants to understand what pervasive and sometimes aggressive American intelligence gathering does to people. And she...
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Laura Poitras: American Spies Have Me 'Lit Up Like a Christmas Tree'
In his post-9/11 novel Pattern Recognition, science fiction writer William Gibson combs through the emotional fallout of that disaster to examine what paranoia does to the human mind. The main...
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