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The US Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames in the 2012 attack. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)


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The logo of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen at CIA
Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, April 13, 2016. (Credit: SAUL
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)


The CIA is Entering a Danger Zone

The CIA is Entering a Danger Zone

If the ghosts who inhabit the walls of the CIA could talk, they would tell Director Mike Pompeo to be careful. The agency is entering a danger zone where a White House in turmoil wants the CIA to take aggressive action overseas but hasn’t developed the clear strategy...
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Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, drive on the western front in Raqqa, Syria, during an offensive by the SDF to retake the city from ISIS militants. (Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images


CIA and the ‘Anti-Assad’ Program

CIA and the ‘Anti-Assad’ Program

What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite of what the program...
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US Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo/Photo: AFP