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FILE - In this April 3, 2014, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. arrives to make a statement after a closed hearing to examine certain intelligence matters in Washington. The CIA does not give up its secrets easily. Under pressure from a Senate committee to declassify parts of a congressional report on harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists, the CIA is shadowed by its reluctance to open up about its operations and its past. The CIA officials who decide which secrets can be revealed have wrestled with Congress, archivists, journalists, former CIA employees and even a former CIA director. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

CIA has upper hand in deciding public disclosures

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

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HAYDEN: Snowden driving intel officers to weigh security of secrecy vs. PR

By Michael Hayden

** FILE ** In this Sept. 14, 2012, file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt-out buildings during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif, not shown, to the U.S. Consulate to express sympathy for the death of the American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens and his colleagues in the deadly attack on the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Emails on Benghazi show aides’ effort to make Obama look ‘statesmanlike’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senators drop demand for drone death tallies

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a media meeting organized by the Russian People's Front in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin has mocked the Internet as a CIA project and pledged to protect Russia&#8217;s interest in the online industry. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin calls Internet ‘CIA project’ that must be controlled

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2011, file artist rendering by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri during his military commissions arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba. U.S. prosecutors must turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after his arrest in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a military judge's order released Tuesday, April 22, 2014. The five-page order was a victory for defense lawyers representing Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, File)

Govt must turn over info on CIA prisons to defense

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this pool photo of a Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, defendants speak with their defense lawyers during a break in pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, April 14, 2014. From right to left are Mustafa al Hawsawi, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ramzi bin al Shibh, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad sitting on the floor with Walid bin Attash sitting on a chair. A lawyer for one of five defendants in the Sept. 11 war crimes tribunal said Monday that FBI agents questioned a member of his defense team, apparently in an investigation related to the handling of evidence, a revelation that brought an abrupt halt to proceedings. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

Guantanamo trial in 9/11 veers off track again

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, visitors socialize after a Jumu'ah prayer service outside the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge and mosque in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The New York Police Department targeted the mosque as a part of a terrorism enterprise investigation beginning in 2003, spying on it for years. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the NYPD confirmed that it has disbanded the special unit that operated that surveillance program. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

End of NYPD Muslim surveillance program applauded

By JAKE PEARSON and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, visitors socialize after a Jumu'ah prayer service outside the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge and mosque in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The New York Police Department targeted the mosque as a part of a terrorism enterprise investigation beginning in 2003, spying on it for years. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the NYPD confirmed that it has disbanded the special unit that operated that surveillance program. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York police disband unit that spied on Muslims

By JAKE PEARSON and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

A man warms himself at a fire next to barricades in front of an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Luhansk, Ukraine, late Saturday, April 12, 2014. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov described the unrest as &quot;Russian aggression&quot; and said Ukraine's security officials would be gathering for an extraordinary meeting late Saturday evening. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Kiev government to deploy troops in Ukraine’s east

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Her own words: In her final days as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton tells a Senate committee that she saw no specific security requests for Benghazi and "I wasn't involved in the talking points process." (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton all but erased from tragic story of the attack in Benghazi

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2013 pool file photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, one of Guantanamo Bay's two courthouses is seen through a broken window at Camp Justice at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, April 14, 2014 a judge in Guantanamo will open a hearing into the sanity of prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, whose courtroom outbursts about alleged mistreatment in Camp 7 have halted the effort to try five men in the Sept. 11 attacks, all of whom are held there. (AP Photo/Toronto Star, Michelle Shephard, Pool, File)

Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

Leaked findings paint pattern of CIA deception

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Kool-Aid Water Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JONES: Bringing transparency to detainee treatment

By James R. Jones

US officials reject Rubio claim about CIA report

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feinstein is appealing to President Barack Obama to remove the CIA from declassifying a torture report harshly critical of the agency’s actions. In a letter to the president, Feinstein says the White House should lead the editing process. Feinstein’s Senate Intelligence Committee voted last week to release parts of the 6,600-page review after information compromising national security is blacked out. Obama has backed the declassification. But the White House has said the CIA will lead that process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feinstein asks White House to edit torture report

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

** FILE ** This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: ‘Emotional’ comments just a way to hide CIA report

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Dems slam CIA ex-boss over Feinstein criticism

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

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CIA official dies in apparent suicide

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as she delivers the keynote address at the launch of the U.S. Global Development Lab, an initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on Thursday April 3, 2014 in New York. Congress and USAID are headed for a showdown over the Obama administration's creation of a Cuban Twitter communications network to undermine the communist government in Cuba. USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is expected to testify on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations State Department and foreign operations subcommittee. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

ISTOOK: Benghazi cover-up was more to protect Hillary than Obama

By Ernest Istook