The EU cannot just move on and hope the furore over Snowden’s allegations will die down, it must uphold the law, writes John Bruton.

Cian O’Connor laid down an early marker in his bid to represent Ireland at the Olympics with a double clear in the US nations cup on Friday night.

The release of secret documents has endangered the lives of Afghan citizens who have co-operated with the international forces, president Hamid Karzai said today.

WIKILEAKS’ editor-in-chief claims his organisation doesn’t know who sent it some 91,000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

THE cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway could be uninhabitable in 100 years if the Government doesn’t start planning for climate change by considering the development of massive flood barriers such as that on the River Thames, the Irish Academy of Engineers (IAE) has warned.

Seven former CIA directors have asked President Barack Obama to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.

The CIA hired a private security firm as part of a secret plan to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, it was revealed today.

Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing and authorising the grim tactics.

The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA’s now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta said.

OSAMA bin Laden, deeply isolated and likely to be somewhere near the rugged Afghanistan-Pakistan border, has been forced to devote much of his energy to his own security while his al-Qaida terror network remains resilient, CIA director Michael Hayden said.

A KGB spy who switched allegiances at the height of the Cold War and was considered by the CIA as its “most valuable and economical defector” has died.

The US government today defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal - not torture, as critics argue - and has saved American lives.

CIA director Michael Hayden, testifying in secret before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, failed to answer key questions about the destruction of secret videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terror suspects, the panel’s chairman said.

The extreme interrogation method used on a top al-Qaida captive was approved at the top levels of the US government, a former CIA agent claimed today.

The CIA has admitted it destroyed video tapes showing the interrogation of two terror suspects by the American intelligence agency.

CIA director Michael Hayden defended his agency’s interrogation practices as political pressure mounted on President George Bush’s attorney general nominee to reject an alleged interrogation technique.

CIA chiefs failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to September 11, the agency’s own watchdog said in a scathing report.

US President George Bush today met with a bipartisan group seeking consensus on a new approach for the war in Iraq amid widespread agreement that the administration's current efforts have not worked well enough or fast enough.

US President George Bush is reportedly “open to ideas” as he meets a panel studying the war on Iraq today.

US military commanders are re-evaluating strategy in Iraq to determine what changes are needed, the top general said.

US President George Bush said today the death of al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is “a severe blow” to the al-Qaida terrorist network and a decisive victory in the US-led campaign against terrorism.

The man chosen by US President George Bush to head the CIA will face the toughest test of his 37-year-old government career today when he faces a grilling by politicians over domestic spying operations.

The US government is secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans’ phone calls in an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, it was reported today.

US President George Bush’s nomination of General Michael Hayden as CIA chief has ignited a confirmation fight over the intelligence veteran’s ties to the controversial eavesdropping programme and his ability to be independent from the military establishment.

CIA director Porter Goss resigned suddenly, nudged out after a turmoil-filled 18 months at the spy agency as it struggled to forge a new identity in an era of intelligence blunders and government overhauls.