The pending publication of moustachioed former national security adviser John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened has run into snags during the process of being vetted by the Central… Read more »

This past Tuesday, Metropolitan Books (an imprint of Macmillan) published Permanent Record, the memoir from former CIA and NSA intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. That same day the U.S. Department of… Read more »

You’ve seen the news: CIA Director Mike Pompeo will be sliding over to serve as Secretary of State, and his deputy Gina Haspel will take the reins at the Agency. This is… Read more »

Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… Read more »

While Donald Trump’s reaction to a question posed by a BBC journalist during his press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May last Friday, and its alternate interpretations in the… Read more »

I was asked by a publication to keep a reading diary for four days, and those days happened to be while I was in Istanbul. The woman I spoke with… Read more »

William Schaap, an activist lawyer who also founded Sheridan Square Press and CovertAction Quarterly, died in Manhattan on February 25th at the age of 75. Sam Roberts writes about his… Read more »

Two weeks ago, the National Security Archive’s Lauren Harper wrote a fascinating op-ed in Al Jazeera America (RIP!) called “The CIA torture report belongs to the public.” Since our publication… Read more »

When we last reported on the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, we brought word that the Department of Justice was doing its best to keep the full report away… Read more »

The story of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen was surely one of the most shocking revelations to emerge from the publication the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Known… Read more »