James R. Lilley, whose six-decade government career included serving as U.S. ambassador to China during the tumult of the 1989 Beijing democracy protests and military crackdown, died Nov. 12. He was 81. Published November 15, 2009
Three intelligence reports that warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in Afghanistan were dismissed as insignificant. Published October 16, 2009
President Obama's policy shift was driven by intelligence that Iran is further along than previously thought with missiles that could strike Western Europe and the Middle East, says National Security Adviser Jim Jones. Published September 20, 2009
U.S. military officials are braced for election violence in Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents threatened to unleash 20 suicide bombers in attacks during Thursday's election. Published August 19, 2009
A long-running FBI espionage probe of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington appears to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism, says a former Pentagon official who revealed this week he had cooperated for 10 weeks with federal agents conducting the probe. Published July 30, 2009
Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of revealing classified information, says he worked undercover as an FBI double agent to gather information on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. Published July 29, 2009
For more than a month, two U.S. citizens who worked for contractors in Iraq were held in prison with no formal charges against them. Published July 20, 2009
The transfer of strategic North American aerospace defense systems from inside the hardened complex of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain to the basement of a glass office building has not reduced the security of the system, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command says. Published July 3, 2009
U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a missile launch by North Korea if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command says. Published July 2, 2009
The White House views the speech in Cairo by President Obama reaching out to Muslims as part of its aggressive effort to counter the lies of Muslim extremists while promoting American values around the world. Published June 11, 2009
A North Korean general who is a confidant of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, has been identified by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies as a key figure in the covert production and distribution of high-quality counterfeit $100 bills called supernotes, according to documents and interviews with intelligence officials. Published June 2, 2009
A civilian employee of the Defense Department was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges that he sold classified information and passed other sensitive documents to a spy for the Chinese government who has been convicted of compromising another Pentagon employee. Published May 14, 2009
China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on government and military systems, hoping to make Beijing's networks impenetrable to U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Published May 12, 2009
A top aide defended Gen. David McKiernan after his dismissal as Afghanistan theater commander Monday, saying many of the civilians who died in U.S. air strikes last week had been forced into target buildings by the Taliban and required to shoot at government forces. Published May 12, 2009
President Obama dispatched two teams of Navy commandos to carry out last week's rescue of a captain held hostage by Somali pirates but left the operational details and rules of engagement to the military. Published April 22, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon's most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea's recent missile launch. Published April 15, 2009
China is continuing a large-scale military buildup of high-tech forces that includes "disruptive" anti-satellite missiles, new strategic forces, and computer attack weapons, the Pentagon's annual report to Congress on the Chinese military says. Published March 26, 2009
A veteran Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States says that his country's civilian spy service spends most of its time trying to steal secrets overseas but also works to bolster Beijing's Communist Party rule by repressing religious and political dissent internally. Published March 19, 2009
Commerce Secretary nominee Gary Locke has performed legal work for firms doing business with Beijing and was forced to refund several political donations received from key figures in a Chinese influence-buying probe. Published March 18, 2009
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told a Senate hearing Tuesday that China's military is increasing harassment of U.S. Navy survey ships, activities viewed by U.S. intelligence as the most aggressive since 2001, when a Chinese jet flew into a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and set off an international crisis. Published March 11, 2009
