Mark Hosenball

Have authorities really shut down an alleged New York terror plot?

Some U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be at higher risk than usual of injury and death because the Pentagon has not equipped their units with enough helicopters to transport them safely around the countries, say six current and former military officials.

Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments.

The Obama administration has accepted a long-awaited Iranian offer to negotiate, but responded skeptically to it. It was "not really responsive to our greatest concern," Iran's nuclear program, says a State Department spokesman.

An apparent Coast Guard training exercise in Washington sparked fears of terrorist activity on the anniversary of 9/11. The White House and media were apparently not informed. Sound familiar?

Intel agencies are swamped with threat warnings.

How hard did the U.S. try to keep the Lockerbie bomber behind bars?

CIA Director Leon Panetta, trying to fend off a new Justice Department investigation of agency interrogation practices, got into a shouting match at the White House and was on the verge of quitting—or so went the scuttlebutt in Washington last week.

Just-released CIA documents don't back up Dick Cheney's claims.

A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists.

Stop being nostalgic for the 40-year-old concert. It was wet, crowded, and overhyped.

One of the main reasons Sarah Palin is stepping down as governor, say associates, is her large, unpaid legal bill. Her successor, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, says she is worried about "the cost of all the ethics investigations and the like." But is that really the reason?

After bombings in Jakarta, cops rush to guard hotels in America.

The CIA's kill teams were modeled on Israel's hit squads

Will Obama scrap Bush's color-coded terror alerts?

Panetta orders internal probe of secret spy program after some members of Congress say CIA misled them.

Why North Korea probably won't test a long-range missile on July 4th.

Iran's mullahs are finding out the hard way that medieval methods of control are no match for 21st--century technology. According to several current and former U.S. and European security officials, Iran is too thoroughly wired for its government's efforts at disabling Facebook, Twitter and text messaging to hold back the tide of dissent. "[The Iranians are] not good at doing it," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive subjects, adding...

In February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of several "fusion" centers created after 9/11 to share intelligence among local, state and federal agencies, issued a "strategic report" warning about a resurgence of the "modern militia movement." Last week, on the same day that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, Missouri's police chief informed legislators that the fusion center had suspended production of such...

Despite recent unsourced reports, investigators downplay possibility of terrorism in the crash of Air France Flight 447.

Investigators probing the crash of Air France Flight 447 are focusing on the possibility that equipment malfunction may have caused the plane essentially to crash itself.

Why did Obama's candidate for a key intel job pull out?

As officials continue to try to piece together what went wrong, new questions about the plane's communications during a crucial period.

The navy seals who rescued Capt. Richard Phillips from the Somali pirates on April 11 were more than good shots. According to three senior intelligence officials who declined to be identified discussing operational secrets, the SEALs aboard the USS Bainbridge shortened the tow rope to the covered 18-foot lifeboat containing the captain and his captors until the boat was tossing and wallowing in the ship's wake.

The honeymoon between CIA director Leon Panetta and veterans of the agency's undercover division—the National Clandestine Service—may be coming to an end.

Thomas Dodd left the Senate in disgrace. Now his son Christopher faces his own crisis.

For decades Switzerland's banks have provided a haven for the ill-gotten wealth of Nazis, dictators and shady businessmen. But after 9/11, as U.S. investigators hunted for terrorist assets, the Swiss government promised to cooperate.

Have authorities captured the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq? U.S. officials aren't so sure.

When president Obama decided to release the Bush-era Justice Department's interrogation memos last month, he tried to calm an anxious CIA by publicly declaring that operatives who "reasonably" relied on them would not face criminal prosecution.

The computer wizards at the national Security Agency's tightly guarded headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., think they know better than anyone just how vulnerable America is to a massive cyberattack.