Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam

By: Devlin Barrett — 6 October 2026 at 20:16

A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.

At the time of his arrest, David J. Rush was at work on highly classified programs for both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.

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Trump Promised Proof of Election Tampering. His Document Release Fell Far Short.

By: David E. Sanger and Dustin Volz — 17 July 2026 at 10:32

In the end, the documentary evidence that President Trump claimed would prove his case appeared bound to disappoint those who expected bombshell revelations.

President Donald Trump points to attendees after delivering an address to the nation from the East Room on Thursday night.

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Wild Ultimatums and ‘Bombing Our Little Hearts Out’: A Portrait of Trump at War

By: Erica L. Green — 28 March 2026 at 16:03

President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.

The president’s allies have always said that his unpredictability is his superpower, and that it keeps his enemies guessing.

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The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

By: Julian E. Barnes， Ronen Bergman， Eric Schmitt and Tyler Pager — 1 March 2026 at 15:49

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.

A satellite image shows black smoke rising and heavy damage at the compound of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

By: David French — 23 November 2025 at 19:10

Who should take responsibility for the president’s undeclared war in the Caribbean?

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A Timeline of Julian Assange’s Legal Saga

By: Charlie Savage — 24 June 2024 at 23:51

A plea deal brought an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedoms, politics and diplomacy.

Julian Assange in London in 2010.

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Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents

By: Steve Coll — 28 February 2024 at 10:04

A C.I.A. capable of making a mistake on the scale of its miss about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was not part of Saddam Hussein’s worldview.