Jeff Stein

North and South Korea are waging a bizarre, often silly but still dangerous war that could spread.

The CIA is discovering that its vetting machinery in Syria may not be up to the task.

A half-dozen variations of "no guts" were used by top former and current military officials to describe Bibi last winter.

With his second book probing the dark tunnels of the so-called war on terror, James Risen has established himself as the finest national security reporter of this generation.

Judge Royce Lamberth awarded the 62 relatives of six Marines and two Navy corpsmen $454 million, the latest setback for Iran in a flurry of cases dating back to 2001

The specter of nuclear mushroom clouds rising over northeast Asia has long been a staple of nightmare scenarios in the event of another war between North and South Korea. In a memoir published last week, however, former CIA chief and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reopened the prickly issue.

It won't be easy for the CIA to flip an ISIS militant

Leon Panetta says he remains uncertain on the intelligence value of harsh interrogations.

Washington wants Lebanon to stop ISIS at its borders. So does Hezbollah. It's a tricky minuet for two longtime lethal foes.

The FBI's long troubled, half-billion-dollar Sentinel computerized file system is coming along just fine, says the Justice Department's watchdog

Gitmo isn't accepting new residents, and the Obama Administration has abandoned torture, so…

A documentary about the fall of Saigon puts America's current wars in perspective

When the White House talks about the Saudis helping finance and train so-called "moderate" Syrians to take on the Islamic State, he's only half-right

Maybe the best way to catch a spy is with carrots

Stamping out the insurgency would require tough choices, not to mention a plan

A decline in basic military intelligence gathering has made a hard job even harder

'Plant olive trees, take the beatings, clog up Israeli jails': Mubarak Awad still believes that non-violence is the answer for the Palestinians

Mubarak Awad laments what Gaza has wrought

NATO tries to halt Islamic State forces from taking Irbil, where the U.S. consulate has up to 50 American officials.

A female operative is being promoted to the No. 2 slot in the dirty tricks and espionage division

Israel was identified by the NSA as a security threat in several areas, including "the threat of development of weapons of mass destruction"

CIA Director John Brennan was up on Capitol Hill hat in hand, apologizing to Feinstein and her Republican counterpart, committee Vice-Chair Saxby Chambliss

"We don't know a name, we don't know a rank and we're not even 100 percent sure of a nationality," a U.S. intelligence official told a select group of reporters

No punishment likely for any spy agency officials for diplomatically disastrous spying on Germany

Michigan's treasury department has slapped liens totaling over $20,000 on the CIA for not paying withholding taxes on employees.

The Iraqi government, led by Muslim Shiites with close ties to Iran, has waged an aggressive campaign against the spy agency

"The Sunni tribes will come out on top. It's their country. They have something to fight for."

On the streets of D.C., foreign agents and U.S. counterspies wage a new kind of spy war

With the defection of key Sunni allies in the ISIL offensive, sources have dried up and the agency is struggling for intelligence

A personnel case challenges the secrecy of America's spy agency