'I was right about Iraq.' It was Dick Cheney's war, and he owned it until the very end.

Cheney dramatically expanded the use of White House executive power in selling and waging one of the most disastrous and avoidable wars in US history.
AOL

CIA applies lessons from Iraq 'debacle' in information battle over Russian invasion of Ukraine

In February, amid Russia’s unprecedented military buildup on Ukraine’s borders — and the Biden administration’s equally unprecedented strategy of actively declassifying intelligence gathered about ...
LAist

CIA Role in Iraq Prisoner Abuse Under Scrutiny

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 ...
New York Sun

CIA Questions Timing of Findings on Faulty Iraq Intelligence

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 ...
Southeast Missourian

CIA sharply criticized in Iraq analysis

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 ...
Independent Record

CIA focus of scathing Iraq intelligence report

WASHINGTON — In a scathing indictment of the nation's intelligence services, a Senate report concluded Friday the CIA provided false and unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush ...
Time

Iraq: How the CIA Says It Blew It on Saddam’s WMD

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 ...
Southeast Missourian

CIA weapons expert - Iraq search yields new info but no weapons

WASHINGTON -- Still unable to find banned Iraqi weapons, the new U.S. weapons inspector said Tuesday his strategy is to expose Saddam Hussein's intentions regarding weapons of mass destruction.
Los Angeles Times

Blackwater reportedly joined CIA raids in Iraq, Afghanistan

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Staffers with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater ...
The Washington Post

Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of 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 ...

Trump says he authorised CIA in Venezuela as Maduro says 'no to regime change'

US President Donald Trump has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela, provoking outrage from the South American nation's leader.