Probe Dropped of CIA's  Role in Plane's Downing
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The Justice Department yesterday confirmed that it has dropped a criminal investigation to determine whether CIA officials lied about circumstances surrounding the shooting down of a small plane carrying American missionaries.
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A videotape showing Pentagon officials' final interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case
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An internal CIA investigation  concluded that former CIA Director George Tenet and other top  officials failed to allocate adequate resources to combat  terrorism before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and should be held  accountable, intelligence officials told The New York Times.
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An investigation into a controversial arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia was reportedly dropped because of fears it could wreck Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Britain relaxed a bit, as the security level was lowered, but the investigation into the failed bomb plot--and a possible Iraq connection--continued apace.
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MONTROSE, Colo. -- Federal investigators recovered important evidence that will help them determine what caused a chartered jet crash over the weekend that killed three people, including the teenaged son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol.
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MOSCOW -- The downing of one of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week was an act of terrorism, investigators said yesterday after finding traces of explosives amid the wreckage of one of the airliners.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 30 -- As federal authorities continue their investigation into Sunday's Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, independent safety experts said it is likely that a series of seemingly small events and decisions -- rather than any large single blunder -- led the pilots to...
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A helicopter operated by a private security firm came down in Iraq last week, U.S. officials said on Thursday, an incident that marks the sixth downing of a helicopter in three weeks.
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The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating whether CIA officials lied to Congress about the  Peru aerial drug interdiction program, which remains suspended  three years after an American missionary plane was mistakenly  shot down, several U.S. government sources said on Thursday.
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The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether a former agency officer illegally disclosed classified information in describing the capture and waterboarding of an al-Qaeda terrorism suspect, officials said yesterday.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. national intelligence director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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MILAN, Italy -- The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program was suspended by a judge yesterday until the country's highest court rules on an Italian government challenge that the case was built on classified evidence.
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Investigators in China have ruled out terrorism in the crash of a passenger plane Sunday that claimed the lives of 54 people. State media said Monday that investigators sent from Beijing hadn&#39;t determined
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - In the latest  legal setback related to the U.S. war on terror, the military  dropped spy charges on Wednesday against a Syrian-American  airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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An ex-UN investigator says his probe into the 1994 downing of the Rwandan president's plane was halted against his wishes.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - The U.S. military  dropped spy charges on Wednesday against a Syrian-American  airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the latest in a series of embarrassing  legal setbacks for the government.