CIA
Cyber security expert on CIA hacking tools leak
Cyber Statecraft Initiative Deputy Director Beau Woods says the Wikileaks leak of CIA's hacking tools shows the magnitude of hacking methods and techniques available - and the endless possibilities. Video, Audio
US 'got it wrong' says Saddam's interrogator
John Nixon was the CIA's lead interrogator of Saddam Hussein after his capture in 2003. He tells Kathryn Ryan that while he was a ruthless dictator - it might have been better if he'd stayed in power… Audio
Trump signals review of 'black site' prisons
Draft documents show US President Donald Trump may order a review that could result in the return of a CIA programme which holds terrorism suspects in secret prisons. Video, Audio
Trump in the Big League, will it be ok ?
William Danvers is a Senior National Security Fellow at the Centre for American Progress. He formerly served under Leon Panetta at the CIA and John Kerry at the State Department. Audio
CIA releases cache of declassified documents
CIA documents posted on a searchable database include thousands of historical papers about New Zealand.
Trump dismisses CIA report on Russian election hacking
President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as "ridiculous" a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour.
John Kiriakou: torture and whistleblowing
Kim Hill talks to John Kiriakou, former CIA officer who in 2002 led the team that located Abu Zubaydah, alleged to be a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda. After a news interview in 2007, in which he… Audio
Fifth aniversary of the killing of Osama Bin laden in Pakistan
To mark his death the CIA is live tweeting events as they happened 5 years ago. Audio
Ex-CIA sentenced to jail for leaking information
A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 3 and a half years jail for leaking classified information to a journalist about a failed US mission to undermine Iran's nuclear weapons programme. Audio
“Good morning. Could you please not delete anything?”
Journalists Luke Harding, Nicky Hager and Richard King discuss freedom of speech in an era of big data, mass surveillance and the unauthorised release of information on a scale never before seen. The… Audio
CIA chief admits 'abhorrent' abuses
The head of the CIA has responded to the damning report accusing it of torturing prisoners in the wake of 9/11, admitting that some interrogators have used "harsh" and "abhorrent" tactics in the past… Audio
Whole truth about CIA techniques kept under wraps
A former CIA officer says a Senate report into interrogation techniques used after the September 11 terror attacks does not tell the whole story. Audio
Calls for prosecution after CIA report
The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved into the "brutal" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects. Audio
CIA veteran defends against scathing attack on interrogations
Sleep deprivation, humiliation, beatings, water boarding -- some of the interrogation techniques used by the CIA to question suspected terrorists, set out in a new US Senate committee report. Audio
Fall-out from CIA torture report
Senior Staff Attorney for the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, Marcellene Hearn, discusses the potential domestic, political, and global fall-out from the Senate… Audio
Security expert puzzled by new powers for SIS
Security expert Dr Paul Buchanan from 36th Parallel Assessments discusses a scathing report from the Senate Intelligence Committee which says the CIA routinely misled both the White House and Congress… Audio
CIA report to show US tortured prisoners
A United States report into the CIA's controversial interrogation methods after the 9/11 attacks has found the techniques were not only ineffective, but their use was misrepresented to the government.
…Fears over release over Senate's 'CIA torture' report
The US Government has reinforced security for its staff and facilities around the world, ahead of the release of a Senate report expected to criticise the CIA's controversial interrogation methods. Audio
CIA will no longer use vaccination programmes to spy
Dr. John R. Finnegan, Jr. is a professor and the Dean at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He is an epidemiology and community public health expert, and one of the 12 Deans who… Audio
CIA ends use of vaccine programmes
The CIA says it will never again use vaccination programmes as cover for operations after admitting it set up a fake immunisation survey as it hunted for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Audio