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** FILE ** A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 13, 2012, after an attack two days earlier that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (Associated Press)

CURL: You don’t mess with the CIA

By Joseph Curl

Those who know the old “tip of the spear” insignia of the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services gathered Saturday to celebrate former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. (OSS Society)

Inside the Beltway: Strategic revels

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, file photo, Libyans walk on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)

Lack of strike force impeded Benghazi response

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Sept. 12, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, about the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

LYONS: Obama needs to come clean on what happened in Benghazi

By Adm. James A. Lyons

In this Sept. 14, 2012, file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and his colleagues in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the consulate. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Obama administration rejects new claim about Libya attack

By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

This photo supplied by Britain’s National Archives shows files containing the diaries of Guy Liddell, former deputy director of the MI5 intelligence service. Liddell’s dairies for the years 1945-53 were made public for the first time on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/National Archive)

U.K. spymaster’s diary shows trans-Atlantic tension

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Inside Politics: Report find super PAC, House ad spending nearly on par

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 13, 2012, after an attack two days earlier that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (Associated Press)

CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

Illustration Obama's Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LYONS: Obama’s chain of command unravels over Benghazi murders

By Adm. James A. Lyons

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this photo from March 1, 2003. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sept. 11 case back before Gitmo war crimes court

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (right) and co-defendant Walid bin Attash attend a U.S. military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Saturday, May 5, 2012, in this sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at Gitmo

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

** FILE ** A crowd at the State Department embraces Robert G. Anders, one of the six diplomats spirited out of Tehran in 1980 under the guise of a Hollywood crew member and with the help of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor (left). (The Associated Press)

Tony Mendez, clandestine CIA hero of Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo,’ reveals the real story behind film smash

By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 22, 1983, file photo, ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, center, leaves federal court after a day of jury selection accompanied by U.S. Marshals in Houston. Wilson, who was branded a traitor and convicted of shipping arms to Libya but whose conviction was later overturned after he served 22 years in prison, died on Sept. 10, 2012. He was 84. (AP Photo/File)

Former CIA operative Edwin Wilson dies at 84

Associated Press

World Briefs: Israel military holds largest snap drill in years

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration Osama Raid Film by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

FITTON: Team Obama’s secret film deal

By Tom Fitton

Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim Prison, Libya's most notorious prison during Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Rights group: Evidence of wider U.S. waterboarding

By Lee Keath and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (Associated Press/Dutton)

Pentagon weighing options against ex-SEAL author

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this undated photo released by Habib Rahman, Gul Rahman is shown. Gul Rahman died in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002, after being shackled to a concrete wall in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul, Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit. He was suspected of links to the terrorist group al Qaeda. Rahman is the only detainee known to have died in a CIA-run prison. The Justice Department announced Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, it has closed an inquiry into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees without bringing criminal charges. (AP Photo/Habib Rahman, Ho)

Justice Dept. won’t bring charges over CIA interrogations

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

(Dutton via Associated Press)

Bin Laden raid book coming out Sept. 11

By Hillel Italie and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11

By HILLEL ITALIE and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press