Most of the focus over what happened at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is on the U.S. military. CIA interrogators were also present, and their role in the abuse is under investigation. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports. As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m ...

WASHINGTON – The CIA and members of Congress said they want to know how a presidential commission unearthed details on intelligence failures about Iraq’s pre-war weapons programs that previous investigations missed. Of particular interest is ...

June 16 -- The U.S. failure to find any significant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, months after toppling Saddam Hussein's regime, has sparked a heated, behind-the-scenes argument between the White House and the CIA over what intelligence the agency ...

WASHINGTON -- In a hard-hitting report released Friday, the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence said the CIA and other agencies used unfounded "group think" assumptions to assess the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before last ...

Now that we’re out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how it came to be bamboozled about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ferrets over at the National Security Archive (NSA) petitioned for, and got ...

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation ...

No good options are left for the United States as it gropes toward a solution to ongoing anti-American and sectarian violence in Iraq, a retired CIA analyst said as he prepares to make an 11-day swing through Missouri and Arkansas. Ray McGovern, who worked ...

WASHINGTON – A new book on the government’s secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

"It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al-Qaida, something the vice president's office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq.

At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation -- a practice that international legal specialists say contravenes the Geneva Conventions.