Mark Mazzetti New York Times

• Obama refrains from formal 'I'm sorry' to Pakistan

  The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences - at least for now - to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, overruling State Department officials who argued for such a show of remorse to help salvage America's relationship with Pakistan, administration officials said.

• US ran fake vaccine project in Osama hunt

  In the months before Osama bin Laden was killed, the Central Intelligence Agency ran a phony vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a ruse to obtain DNA evidence from members of Bin Laden's family thought to be holed up in an expansive compound there, according to an American official. The vaccination program was set up as the C.I.A. was s...

• CIA safe house owner in bin Laden raid arrested

  Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.Pakistan's detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said cop...

• Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid

  Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan's detention of five CIA informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copie...

• After Osama raid, Pak taunts US by flirting with China

  America's tormented relationship with Pakistan has long had the subtlety of a professional wrestling match. So when frayed relations turned openly hostile in recent weeks, it was hardly a surprise to see Pakistani officials flirt publicly with China, America's biggest rival in Asia.Within days of the American raid deep inside Pakistan that killed O...

• Data from raid links bin Laden to newer terror plots

  After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday. The C.I.A. had Bin Laden's compound...

• We don't trot out this stuff as trophies: Obama on Osama photo

  President Obama decided Wednesday not to release graphic photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse, as new details emerged about the raid on Bin Laden's fortified compound that differed from the administration's initial account of the 40-minute operation. Mr. Obama, after a brief but intense debate within his war council, concluded that making the im...

• Clues that gradually led to the location of Osama

  For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car's license plate.The man in the car was bin Laden's most trusted courier, and over the next mon...

• Osama bin Laden dead, killed by US in Pak; buried at sea

  Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced. (Watch: Obama announces Osama's death | Full Text) In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the Whi...

• How a courier led US to Osama mansion

  After years of dead ends and promising leads gone cold, the big break came last August.A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden's whom American spies had been hunting for years was finally located in a sprawling mansion 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, close to one of the hubs of American counterterrorism operations. The compound was so secure,...

• Panetta and Petraeus in line for top security posts

  President Obama is expected this week to name Leon E. Panetta, the director of central intelligence, as defense secretary and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, as director of the C.I.A., administration officials said Wednesday. The appointments, set in motion by the impending retirement of Defense Secretary Robert M...

• CIA agents in Libya aid airstrikes and meet rebels

  The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces, according to American officials.While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan ca...

• American held in Pakistan shootings worked with the CIA

  The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore, the detained American contractor, Raymond A. Davis...

• Former spy with agenda operates a private CIA

  Duane R Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, he still runs a network of spies. Over the past two years, he has fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan. Since the United States military cut off his funding ...

• WikiLeaks: How US expanded role of diplomats in spying

  The United States has expanded the role of American diplomats in collecting intelligence overseas and at the United Nations, ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries.Revealed in classified State Department cables, the directives, go...