My mother was a top Middle East analyst for the CIA. On her deathbed, she begged me not to raise my children Jewish. To find out why, I asked her former colleagues. I’m still reeling from their answers.

A CIA whistleblower pulls back the curtain on COVID’s origins in the shadowy world of U.S. biodefense programs

It wasn’t a reward for the agency’s failures in Kyiv and Kabul

Mohammed Mossadegh was not a democrat or democratically elected, nor was he toppled by nefarious foreigners

The CIA’s case for Palestinian statehood was based on analysis. Then the analysts turned out to be wrong.

In his new memoir, ‘Undaunted,’ former CIA Director John Brennan offers a self-portrait of a blustering desk jockey with severe anger-management issues

And with the help of big names in media they’re turning journalism into an intelligence operation

In an excerpt from Ehud Barak’s ‘My Country, My Life,’ the former defense minister discloses the debate over Israel’s attack plan, and a fateful conversation with President Barack Obama

News of the News: The Russia investigation put the FBI in a bind well before Trump ever landed in the White House

An émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters

Did the U.S. choose to ignore the source of 1999 bombings that propelled the security-agency bureaucrat to the top post he has never relinquished?

One report claimed ‘neither side seems bent on starting hostilities’

But the Obama Administration bets $100 billion that Iran is innocent

The state of jihad and counter-jihad, in the middle of a long war

Top Treasury official devised U.S. sanctions against Iran and Russia