Lawyers

• CIA's Response to Sexual Assault Allegations Sparks Debate Over Dismissal of Whistleblower.

  Is transparency an ideal or practice within the CIA? Explore the debate sparked by the agency's response to sexual assault allegations and the subsequent dismissal of a whistleblower. Read more.

• CIA Declassifies 13M Pages Documents Including UFO Sightings, Mind Control Experiments

  The Central Intelligence Agency has made almost 13 million pages of declassified documents available online, searchable through the agency's official library.

• Clinton apologizes for using private email as U.S. secretary of state

  U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the first time apologized on Tuesday for using a private email server at her New York home for her official communications as secretary of state.

• China-linked hackers get sensitive U.S. defense and intelligence data: report

  China-linked hackers appear to have gained access to sensitive background information submitted by U.S. intelligence and military personnel for security clearances that could potentially expose them to blackmail, the Associated Press reported on Friday.

• U.S. calls for release of Americans in Iran, denies swap deal

  The United States called on Tuesday for the release of U.S. citizens held in Iran, but denied a report that Washington had proposed a prisoner exchange for a former U.S. Marine.

• CIA director admits Senate computer network spying, extends apology

  CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said in the written statement, "Some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) and the CIA in 2009."

• Ex-CIA deputy claims politics has no role in flawed Benghazi account

  Former deputy director Michael Morell of the Central Intelligence Agency told members of the House intelligence committee that the Benghazi attacks were a result of a direct action by extremists who had links to terrorist groups, which was contrary to a talking points draft read earlier, Businessweek said.

• US senator accuses CIA of spying committee panel on terrorist interrogation and detention program

  US Senator Dianne Feinstein had said in her speech on Tuesday on the Senate floor that the Central Intelligence Agency violated federal laws for spying on her panel committee's computers in light of the investigation of the federal agency's brutal interrogation measures on terrorist suspects.

• Email reveals purge of Bin Laden's death photos

  Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, whose interest group requested material pertaining to the death of Osama Bin Laden, said the US government has attempted to destroy information that the American people need to know under the freedom of information statute.