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Focuses on the government investigation into the safety and effectiveness of the U.S. CIA. Classified information given to a journalist regarding a former CIA operative; How the FBI will begin the investigation by interviewing White House staff; Possible appointment of special counsel; Reasons why the public is upset by actions taken by the government regarding the invasion of Iraq.

The article discusses U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers such as John Kiriakou and Jeffrey Sterling who have been charged with disclosing classified information to reporters since 2007, including under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The CIA's interrogation of suspected terrorists, Kiriakou's attitudes to torture, and his career as a spy for the CIA are discussed, as well as his work in Pakistan and his spy training.

The article focuses on the espionage operations of Israel against the U.S. After Jonathan Pollard was sentenced into a life imprisonment, the U.S. together with Israeli government have agreed that neither nation would conduct espionage operations without consent. However, the Israeli government did not honor its commitment after the Pollard incident and continues to conduct such activities particularly on those classified information which being condemned heavily by the U.S. authorities.

Looks at the latest scandal to hit the desk of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. How routine eavesdropping on an Israeli Embassy official and a pro-Israel lobbyist turned up an alleged spy; Larry Franklin, a desk officer with the Near East and South Asia office at the Pentagon, who is suspected of passing classified information to Israel; Evidence that has been gathered; Motive for the spying which appears to be hatred of Iran; Denials by the Israelis that they conduct any spying on U.S. soil.

The article details how a spy stole the secrets of the 1943 Soviet Union, Iran and Egypt conferences from the safe of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. The spy offered Ludwig Moyzisch of the German intelligence service photographs of secret documents in the British embassy for £500,000 each. The photographs consist of a list of British intelligence agents in Turkey and a preliminary report on the decisions reached at the conference of Allied foreign ministers, among others.

The article discusses the efforts to release convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard. The request of Israeli leaders and Pollard himself for commutation of his life sentence is discussed, noting that he was convicted in 1985 for selling classified U.S. documents to Israel. Former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director James Woolsey has mentioned that he would support Pollard's release on the conditions that Pollard show remorse and renounce any financial profits he has made from his case.

Reports on the discovery of documents containing potentially classified information buried by convicted U.S. spy Brian Regan in several locations across Maryland and Virginia. Career background of Regan; Criminal charges against Regan; Information on a reassessment of Regan's case.

Reports on the infamous spy Robert P. Hanssen who breached U.S. classified networks on behalf of Moscow. Information on highly classified information passed to the KGB; Work at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence squad in 1985.