An Italian judge has convicted 23 in absentia in connection with a CIA rendition case, it was announced Wednesday. The 23 Americans were accused of illegal kidnapping an Egyptian cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on a Milan street in February of 2003.

According to Yochi J. Dreazen’s top front-page story “Call for an Afghan Surge” in the September 16th Wall Street Journal, if approval is forthcoming there will be “as many as 40,000 new troops, in addition to 62,000 now” in Afghanistan. Yochi reports:

A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill the children of 9-11 suspect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The document was released Monday by the Justice Department.

Parapsychologist uses the help of volunteers on twitter to test the powers of “remote viewing”

Leon Panetta, Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, told the Senate Intelligence Committee the practice of extraordinary rendition will no longer be allowed.

According to Chuck Todd and Samantha Guthrie at NBC News, Leon Panetta has been chosen by Obama to be the Director of the CIA.

Top democrats in the US Congress have sought the investigation into the destruction of two videotapes that documented harsh interrogations of terror suspects by the Justice Department.

U.S. lawmakers are calling for a review of the CIA's decision to destroy videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.

A new US intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.

He was the US President's big public defender when the scandal broke over the naming of a CIA agent. Now George W Bush's former press secretary appears to be suggesting that the President knowingly misled the public over the outing of agent Valerie Plame.

UCLA Author In A New Book Says U.S. Intelligence Did Not Have a Fighting Chance Against al Qaida.

Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael V. Hayden on the Release of the 9/11 IG Report Executive Summary