Search

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The FBI is investigating whether a Pentagon official provided highly classified information about U.S. policy toward Iran to the government of [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Of all the Bush administration's missteps in Iraq, the worst may have been listening to Ahmad Chalabi. The former Iraqi exile fed the administration bogus [...]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The U.S.-led war against Iraq began one year ago with an urgent message from a clandestine team of [...]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The former chief U.S. arms inspector in Iraq said Wednesday that an independent inquiry was needed to identify the failures that [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Faced with rising costs, sinking polls, unsympathetic allies, an increasingly skeptical Congress and potential splits in his political party, President Bush has begun to question [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Faced with rising costs, sinking polls, unsympathetic allies, an increasingly skeptical Congress and potential splits in his political party, President Bush has begun to question [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Even some officials in the president's administration worry that in his address to the nation Sunday night he glossed over his shifting rationales for war [...]

Byline: John Walcott and James Kuhnhenn WASHINGTON _ Two high-ranking Defense Department officials Wednesday denied that a special Pentagon intelligence unit manipulated information on Iraq's weapons programs and links to [...]

Byline: Dave Montgomery and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The largest volume of intercepted communications and other intelligence since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks suggests that al-Qaida is preparing a [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whether senior al-Qaida leaders hiding in Iran may have helped to plan or coordinate the terrorist bombings that killed 34 [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ While American military planners have concentrated since the Persian Gulf War on making more and better use of high technology, their Iraqi counterparts appear to [...]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Heavily armed U.S. and Pakistani military and intelligence officials have launched a series of major operations along Pakistan's borders with Iran and Afghanistan in an [...]

WASHINGTON _ U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that the voice on the audiotape broadcast Sunday by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network is Osama bin Laden's, but Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld [...]

WASHINGTON _ The al-Qaida organization planned two more terrorist attacks against the United States, one of them using a radioactive 'dirty bomb,' in addition to the September 11 airplane strikes, [...]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Concern is mounting among U.S. intelligence officials and diplomats that al-Qaida-related groups may be preparing terrorist attacks on Persian Gulf bases […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ A series of new U.S. intelligence assessments on Iraq paints a grim picture of the road ahead and […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON _ The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have warned President Bush that the United States […]

Byline: James Kuhnhenn and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Some facts behind claims made in Friday's debate: America's safety in a world of terrorist threats and the health and economic welfare […]

Byline: James Kuhnhenn and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Some facts behind claims made in Friday's debate: America's safety in a world of terrorist threats and the health and economic welfare […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ A new CIA assessment undercuts the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al-Qaida, saying there's […]

Byline: Renee Schoof and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Time and again, the 90-minute debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry returned to two central points: _Bush said the U.S.-led […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The U.S. government has launched an investigation to determine how Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi obtained highly classified American intelligence […]

Byline: Patrick Peterson and John Walcott FALLUJAH, Iraq _ A tenuous truce took hold on Saturday as American and Iraqi representatives tried to negotiate an end to the siege of […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Bush administration officials sought Tuesday to cast the rebellion in Iraq as the work of a minority, saying plans to transfer […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Months of investigation and two days of televised public hearings this week by the commission investigating America's war on terrorism revealed how ill-equipped the nation […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The Bush administration's claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida _ one of the administration's […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ President Bush's claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida _ one of his administration's central […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ As the weather begins to improve along the rugged, remote border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. and Pakistani forces are stepping up their hunt for […]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Joseph L. Galloway WASHINGTON _ Richard Perle, one of the most outspoken advocates for invading Iraq, has quietly resigned from the Defense Policy […]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The Department of Defense is continuing to pay millions of dollars for information from the former Iraqi opposition […]

Byline: Alan Bjerga and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ A Senate committee will expand its probe of prewar Iraq intelligence to investigate whether some administration officials exaggerated the available information to […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Senior aides to President Bush are vigorously debating what to do about Syria as evidence mounts that the government in Damascus […]

Byline: John Walcott and Warren P. Strobel WASHINGTON _ The Bush administration Friday warned that private visits to North Korea's nuclear complex shouldn't interfere with efforts to reconvene international talks […]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan and John Walcott BAGHDAD, Iraq _ A top-secret report prepared for the American military command in Iraq just before Saddam Hussein was caught predicted that guerrilla attacks […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Although the Bush administration describes the guerrillas who are attacking the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq as holdovers from Saddam Hussein's regime and foreign terrorists, some […]

Byline: William Douglas and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ President Bush, his top national security advisers and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, on Wednesday urgently discussed how to […]

Byline: John Walcott and Drew Brown WASHINGTON _ U.S. intelligence officials now believe that some foreign Islamic fighters are cooperating with remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime, surviving members of a […]

Byline: James Kuhnhenn and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Two key Republican senators want the Bush administration to explain U.S. intelligence failings in Iraq that they say are endangering American troops […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ After examining new video and audio tapes of Osama bin Laden that were broadcast last week, U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the fugitive al-Qaida […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Alarmed by mounting casualties and staggering costs in Iraq, a growing number of top Bush administration officials have concluded that the […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ A terrorist group based in U.S.-controlled Iraq continues to broadcast propaganda into Iran, purchase equipment and move about the country without […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ A terrorist group based in U.S.-controlled Iraq continues to broadcast propaganda into Iran, purchase equipment and move about the country without […]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ U.S. troops in Iraq have arrested a group of suspected Islamic militants who intelligence officials believe are associated with the al-Qaida […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Dramatic claims by President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other top officials that Iraq was hiding vast stocks of […]

Byline: Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON _ The failure of U.S. search teams to find significant stocks of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons nearly two months after the […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Some of President Bush's top advisers, who had hoped the war in Iraq would be the turning point in the battle against terrorism and the […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Some of President Bush's top advisers, who had hoped the war in Iraq would be the turning point in the battle against terrorism and the […]

Byline: John Walcott WASHINGTON _ Evidence is mounting that al-Qaida leaders who sought refuge in Iran have been planning and directing terrorist operations in Saudi Arabia, Kenya and elsewhere, administration […]

Byline: Dion Nissenbaum and John Walcott BAGHDAD, Iraq _ The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Wednesday that supporters of deposed President Saddam Hussein continued to "intimidate and terrorize" […]

Byline: John Walcott and Tom Infield WASHINGTON _ America's predawn attack on what Pentagon officials called "leadership targets" in Baghdad was a bold and unexpected beginning to President Bush's even […]