Michael Isikoff

The CIA says it has left its shady past behind. But has the agency learned from its mistakes—and how much has really changed?

The little-noticed arrests of three men allegedly planning U.S. attacks renews questions about the country's tolerance of terrorists.

John Rizzo wants to be the CIA's top lawyer. But he'll have to get past a posse of angry senators first.

Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate.

Arguing that Libby deserves jail time, Fitzgerald says Plame was a covert agent.

The Bush administration once proudly trumpeted its capture of terrorist leader Ibn al-Shakyh al-Libi-a key source for the assertion that Iraq helped train Al Qaeda in biochem weapons. His story has since been discredited. Where is he now?

Lanny Davis is a Washington lawyer best known for his stint as a White House spokesman during the Clinton administration, where he helped do damage control on Whitewater and campaign-finance investigations.  But Davis is also one of the few Democrats to work for the Bush administration—until he resigned last week as a member of the president's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

The men who gathered inside the small Bronx apartment were tense, and they chatted nervously before the ceremony. The participants, among them a New York City musician and an emergency-room doctor from Florida, had allegedly gathered to meet a "brother" from Canada who called himself Ali.

In a blow to the Bush administration, the deputy attorney general and the only Democrat on the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board have resigned.

The Feds bust up a homegrown jihadist plot to attack Fort Dix. Did Al Qaeda DVDs and Web sites inspire the suspects from afar?

Deputy chief of staff Karl Rove participated in a hastily called meeting at the White House two months ago. The subject: The firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year.

A former FBI investigator disappears in Iran. Was he there on a private mission to bring an international fugitive to justice?

In his first public comments since last week's massacre, the National Rifle Association's top lobbyist said today that the group backs proposed new legislation designed to ensure that mentally unstable killers like Cho Seung-Hui do not gain access to firearms.Wayne LaPierre, the group's executive vice president, told NEWSWEEK that Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, "absolutely" should have been barred from buying a gun under current federal laws.

A brief encounter at a Cairo cocktail party could signal a shift in Bush administration policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide Islamic movement that the United States has shunned because of its alleged ties to terrorism.

The disclosure that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui was once involuntarily detained for mental illness may change the typical debate over gun control that inevitably follows gun-related tragedies.At the time Cho legally purchased the weapons used in the shootings, he had no criminal history and was a permanent legal resident with a green card.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited April 17 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—a session widely seen as a crucial test as to whether he will survive the U.S. attorney mess.

Lawyers for John Walker Lindh want Bush to commute his sentence. The administration has other plans.

Republicans in Congress didn't question the administration's rough treatment of captured terrorists. Now the newly empowered Democrats want answers.

Bud Cummins never had any intention of making a fuss. A folksy Arkansas lawyer, Cummins had been abruptly fired last year as U.S. attorney in Little Rock to create a slot for a former top aide to Karl Rove.

Conservatives are clamoring for a Libby pardon. But don't count on Bush to go along—at least not yet.

Karl Rove participated in a discussion about the firing of U.S. attorneys in 2005, asking White House lawyers "how we planned to proceed" on the issue and whether the prosecutors would be selectively dismissed or fired en masse, according to newly disclosed White House e-mails.The e-mails, obtained by NEWSWEEK, appear to show that Rove had a greater level of involvement in the dismissal of the prosecutors than the White House has previously acknowledged.

The Feds say they were con men, and one may have tried to finance terrorists. So how did they get so tight with the GOP?

The firings of eight U.S. attorneys has put the heat on top Justice Department officials—and some GOP members of Congress. The unusual mass dismissals took place late last year, but the controversy escalated last week when David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, went public with a dramatic charge: that he had gotten phone calls from two unidentified GOP lawmakers in D.C. last October, pressing him to bring indictments in a high-profile corruption case involving a prominent...

The jury in the I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby trial had a "tremendous amount of sympathy" for Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff—even wondering if he was being made the "fall guy" for others at the White House, one of the jurors told reporters today."It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy?' juror Denis Collins told reporters on the courthouse steps today. "Where is [Karl] Rove?

How do you read the body language of a jury? That was the big question in U.S. Judge Reggie Walton's courtroom this afternoon, as he brought in the 11 remaining jurors in the I.

The government made a secret video of its interrogations of 'enemy combatant' Jose Padilla. But now that he's on trial, the Feds claim they don't know where it went.

Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload--only this time, it was from the witness stand. Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I.

Democrats in the House of Representatives say Friday's 246-182 vote for a nonbinding resolution opposing President Bush's plan to deploy more troops to Iraq is only the first step in a series of moves to pressure the administration to change course.

Ari Fleischer may turn out to be a stronger—and more credible—witness than he was a White House press secretary.During several hours on the witness stand in the I.

Why is the Bush administration escalating its accusations that Iran is backing Shiite extremists inside Iraq? One reason: mounting intelligence indicating Tehran has been supplying insurgents with electronic sensors that trigger roadside bombs used against U.S. troops.The devices in question—which cost as little as $1 a piece—are called "passive infrared" sensors or detectors.