As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
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Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan warMichael Hastings:
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, thereMichael Hastings:
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.Michael Hastings:
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted inMichael Hastings:
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leaderMichael Hastings:
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the CMichael Hastings:
It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protesMichael Hastings:
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign callMichael Hastings:
In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra HotelMichael Hastings:
The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.