Cameron Munter talks about his battle with the CIA over drones. Tara McKelvey reports.
Tara McKelvey, a 2011 Guggenheim fellow, is a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War (Basic Books).
Diplomacy
Michael Posner is the president’s point man on democracy: no wonder he looks exhausted.
Daring
The unusual disclosures about the thwarted plot suggest the CIA has reach and may throw terrorists off balance, says Tara McKelvey.
Three agents have lost their jobs, and two investigations are underway. Tara McKelvey on the fallout.
Secret Weapon
The man who once called President Bush the "torturer in chief" has become a fierce defender of aerial drone strikes.
Spies are exercising even more caution after WikiLeaks published Stratfor emails, reports Tara McKelvey.
Intervention
American officials are struggling over how to answer Syrians’ calls for aid.
Communicating with North Korea has never been easy, as Aram Roston and Tara McKelvey report.
The leaner military the president’s proposing means fewer troops and more Predator drones.
American officials are conducting secret talks with insurgents on Guantánamo prisoners’ possible release.