CIA director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney established a secret spy agency after 9/11. So secret that Cheney did not notify Congress of the covert program's existence, which could be against the law. (via Metafilter)

Nearly 100 terror-suspect interrogation tapes were destroyed by the CIA, more than the intelligence organization previously acknowledged. Some critics believed the CIA destroyed the tapes in an attempt to hide evidence of illegal interrogation practices.

CIA agents in Afghanistan revealed they are gathering information by paying Afghan warlords, who often have multiple wives, with viagra.

A previously classified 2005 report released by the CIA Inspector General asserts that former director George Tenet "bears ultimate responsibility" for the agency's lack of preparation on 9/11.

The CIA has declassified 700 pages of secret documents detailing break-ins, illegal phone and mail surveillance, as well as a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.