Senate Showdown
It’s easy make judgments about the agency’s post- 9/11 decisions here in the relative clarity of 2014. But the unknown was terrifying then.
War on Terror
Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism. So do terrorists. Why does the legal system treat them so differently?
War
New reports peg civilian losses higher than we ever knew. But targeted killings work, writes a former CIA deputy director—and the alternatives can be much worse.
COUNTERTERRORISM
Ex–CIA counterterrorism official Philip Mudd on why Algeria’s terrorist attack shows a jihadist movement on the wane.
Stealth
Ex-CIA official Philip Mudd on the moral questions about drone use—and the next targets we might train them on.