Edward Snowden’s Former Employer Wants To Look Both Hip And With It

Booz Allen Hamilton is looking for an editor-in-chief for its revamped communications strategies, including graphics and quizzes and other Millennial bait.

The White House Is Still Nowhere Near Its Goal Of Resettling Syrian Refugees

Numbers released Tuesday show the State Department has helped fewer than 1,300 displaced Syrians find homes in the U.S. — a fraction of the White House’s goal of settling 10,000 by September.

Turkish Security Forgot They Were In Washington And Acted Like A Bunch Of Jerks

Journalists being harassed by Turkish security, protestors assailing counter-protestors, Turkish security berating D.C. cops. It was nuts.

Would-Be Asylum Seekers Are Stuck At Guantanamo Bay

The Obama administration says it has no plans to end a decades-old program that holds would-be asylum seekers without access to lawyers on the same legal grounds underpinning the detentions of those held in the so-called “war on terror.”

Osama Bin Laden Left Barely Any Of His $29 Million To His Family In His Will

A newly released trove of documents shows an ever-determined, but increasingly cautious terror group in the months leading up to the al Qaeda head’s death.

There Are More Than 80 Infants Buried In Guantanamo Bay’s Cemetery

Tucked away in a restricted corner of the military installation, a navy cemetery paints a picture of the colorful history of the U.S.’s oldest overseas base.

This Is How The U.S. Decides How Many People It Can Kill In Syria

The Pentagon employs cold, hard science to calculate the value of a human life — and when it’s OK for the U.S. military to take an innocent one.

The People Who Work At Gitmo Gave Obama’s New Plan To Close It A Solid “Meh”

The political excitement in Washington was met with a relative shrug on the base that houses the notorious detention facility.

Obama Unveils Plan To Close Guantanamo

President Obama unveiled a long-awaited plan to close the infamous detention facility in Cuba — but he is likely to face opposition from Congress.

Gitmo’s Prosecutors Are Trying To Protect Their Ability To Censor The Past

Government prosecutors argued Monday that they — and they alone — should be allowed to decide what is and isn’t public during the war court’s open hearings.

Meet The Army Spies In Charge Of Rewriting The U.S.’s Torture Legacy

A small counterintelligence office is leading the effort to rewrite the Army Field Manual, the government-wide guide to interrogation.

Head Of Obama’s Secret Interrogation Group Says Unit Has Been Deployed 34 Times

The head of the FBI-led High Value Detainee Group told BuzzFeed News that the unit has been sent out 34 times over the last six years, finally revealing a figure that the bureau has routinely cited as classified.

The CIA Corrected Its Own Corrections Of The Torture Report Without Telling Anyone

In a document quietly posted alongside its formal response to the Senate Torture Report, the CIA admits some of the accusations its formal report denies.

Here’s Twenty Years Of Spy Chiefs Scaring The Hell Out Of Congress

Congress held its traditional Worldwide Threat Assessment Hearing on Tuesday. According to the last two decades of testimony from our spy leaders, we’re all screwed.

New Military Moms Will Now Get 12 Weeks Of Maternity Leave

In a swath of family-friendly changes announced Thursday, the Pentagon will double the Army’s and Air Force’s paid maternity leave.

Senators To Obama: The CIA Owes Us An Apology And You Know It

A new letter renews calls for the CIA’s acknowledgement that an unauthorized January 2014 search of Senate computers was improper.

Obama’s Anti-Torture Team Has One Job — And Nobody Wants Them To Do It

A congressionally-mandated initiative to overhaul U.S. interrogation strategy is bringing to light the frustrations — and fragility — of Obama’s post-torture legacy.

Washington Is Actually More Annoyed With Saudi Arabia Than Iran Right Now

A burgeoning regional crisis has Washington more worried about its alliance with Saudi Arabia than its thawing ties with Iran.

The Senate Just Cleared The Torture Report’s Lead Investigator For A New Job

Alissa Starzak, a former staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee and lead investigator for the torture report, has been waiting for Senate confirmation for more than a year.