Former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan opens up about combat, trauma, brain injuries, personal loss, and the hidden realities of modern warfare. He reveals how years of high-risk operations ...

When contractors are used, the same rules of interrogation governing CIA personnel would apply, said Lee Strickland, who retired from the CIA in December after 30 years and now teaches at the ...

Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have ...

Washington-- The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, a person familiar with the program said Wednesday. The ...

In a federal courtroom in San Francisco, Uber was accused of hiring contractors tied to former Central Intelligence Agency officers to gather intelligence on rivals, a claim that surfaced during a ...

ISLAMABAD -- A "blood money" deal to free a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistani men removes a major thorn in relations between the United States and Pakistan, but bruising from the dispute and ...

The family of a CIA contractor killed in Benghazi, Libya, has filed claims seeking $2 million in damages from the CIA and State Department, alleging there was inadequate security at the U.S.