Topic: John Brennan

Congressmen Want FBI To Investigate White House Over Underwear Bomber Leak

Reuters

Over the White House's denials that any of its people let slip classified information about an operative inside this month's would-be underwear bomb plot, two Republican congressmen have asked the FBI to investigate the White House for the alleged leak.

By John Hudson

May 18, 2012

Will Senator Feinstein Call for an Investigation of the White House?

On Sunday, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said whoever leaked the underwear bomber story must be prosecuted. Does that include White House officials?

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By Adam Martin

May 18, 2012

John Brennan

Tracing the CIA Underwear Bomb Leak Back to the White House

The Associated Press gets credit for actually breaking the recent "underwear bomber" news, but the information that the plot was an inside job by an intelligence operative actually appears to have come accidentally from a White House attempt at damage control.

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

Ali Abdullah Saleh Is Looking More Like Himself

Photos have emerged from the Yemeni president's meeting with America's counterterrorism chief

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By Uri Friedman

May 5, 2011

Journalists Are Grumbling About Changing Raid Details

On Twitter, analysts urge the administration to get its facts straight

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By Adam Martin

May 3, 2011

The Changing Story of the Fight in Bin Laden's Compound

Bin Laden was not, in fact, armed, Jay Carney says

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