No one is getting off the island during the Guantanamo hunger strike, where there aren't review boards. And did we mention the latest on drones and financing Afghan warlords? Here are a few core democratic principles the CIA is glossing over these days.
A key reason for the Obama administration's reticence on transparency, according to two sources who have read the memos or are aware of their contents, is that the drone documents contain secret protocols with foreign governments, including Pakistan and Yemen, as well as "case-specific" details of strikes.
You know that top secret drone base in Saudi Arabia everyone's been crowing about lately? If Wired's sources are correct, that's a picture of it to the left. Runways, hangar, sand — it's all there. It's not very secret, either.
The details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — a centerpiece of the Obama administration's national security approach — remain shrouded in secrecy. Here's a guide to what we know — and what we don't know.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen has begun to offer bounties for anyone who kills U.S. soldiers and officials in their country, including the U.S. ambassador.
A Yemeni citizen on his way to work at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa today was shot and killed by masked gunmen riding motorcycles.
Yemen's president is so in love with the fleet of drones the U.S. uses in his country that he thinks they're more advanced than the human brain.
Hundreds of protesters have descended on the U.S. embassy in Yemen, as outrage over an anti-Muslim video continues across the Middle East.
Reports out of Yemen say a suicide bombing attack on police cadets in the capital of Sanaa has claimed the lives of at least eight and wounded 15 others, suggesting that Sanaa may be becoming al Qaeda's favorite suicide bombing target.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's reputation for toughness when it comes to cracking down on national security leaks is bringing her dangerously close to butting heads with the White House.
ProPublica's Justin Elliott tries to lay out exactly what's known (not much) about President Obama's policy on drone strikes, what's not (a lot), and what the White House is saying in response to a New York Times report.
If you think PBS and the CIA have nothing in common, you're wrong.
There's some very disturbing news out of Yemen today: A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform detonated explosives in the middle of a parade rehearsal, and according to reports killed at least 96 and wounded at least 300. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility.
On Sunday, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said whoever leaked the underwear bomber story must be prosecuted. Does that include White House officials?
The heat is on a U.S. official responsible for leaking details of al Qaeda's disrupted bomb plot to the Associated Press.
Intelligence services in the United Kingdom are now getting pulled into the story of the foiled airline bomb plot as it's been revealed that the mole who infiltrated al Qaeda in Yemen was actually a British citizen.
It's difficult to exaggerate the value of the sting operation that foiled Al Qaeda's latest underwear bomb plot.
In a shocking revelation from intelligence sources, the suicide bomber reportedly thwarted trying to blow up a U.S. airliner last month, was actually an informant who willingly turned over the bomb and a top al-Qaeda operative to the CIA.
The United States has "relaxed" its rules regarding unmanned drone attacks in Yemen, giving the CIA and the military the authority to fire on suspected militants even when their identity can't be totally confirmed.
There was only one candidate to become Yemen's next president on Tuesday's poll, and The New York Times describes the election as "hardly an exercise in democracy," but Yemenis took to polling stations despite reports of violence.
Outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen has departed the country he has ruled for 33 years, and is making his way to the U.S. for "medical treatment."
A French-Algerian journalist who was found strangled by an electrical cord in a hotel room in the Yemeni Capital of Sanaa had been missing for four days before his body was discovered on Monday.
At least some U.S. officials say the military got 'played' when it acted on local intelligence to conduct a drone strike in Yemen last year, killing not a terrorist but a political rival of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh is planning to seek medical treatment in the U.S. after ceding power to a new unity government, a spokesman says.
Around 15 al Qaeda militants busted out of a jail in the city of Aden today, making it the fourth jailbreak by al Qaeda in the past eight years, which makes having an al Qaeda prison in Yemen not like having one at all.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has officially stepped down, signed over a transfer of power agreement and landed himself a nice deal in the process--possibly avoiding the fate of overthrown Arab dictators before him.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has reportedly agreed to a transfer of power that would finally end the 10-month long uprising that nearly got him killed.
The attack took out al-Qaeda's media chief, and Anwar al-Awlaki's son
A firm has estimated the economic consequences to the Middle East uprisings
Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for a ceasefire amid civil war worries
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Clashes erupted after security forces fired on demonstrators
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Yemeni forces helped carry out the attack, say reports
A report on Monday suggested that he would stay in Saudi Arabia
Will it stall momentum in Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt?
In the ABC News version, the Al Qaeda leader dodged missiles and fireballs
Photos have emerged from the Yemeni president's meeting with America's counterterrorism chief
Protesters have grown dispirited after President Saleh's TV appearance
The Yemeni president criticized those who want him to step down
After three weeks in Cuba, the Venezuelan president has canceled a regional summit
A spokesman says the burned and injured ruler will appear in public within 48 hours
Wondering what it's like to view mass protests from a roof?
Authorities are rounding up suspects with the FBI's help
The U.S. has used a drone strike to kill at least one al- Qaeda operative
On life after Weinergate, China's economic supremacy, and a defense of Goldman Sachs
The Yemeni president's injuries could prevent him from returning home
The opposition wants to set a political transition in motion while he's in Saudi Arabia
What this means for Yemen, and whether he's coming back
Saudi Arabia may require him to cede power
An audio address in place of a video address raises questions
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