INTELLIGENCE

The CIA Briefing Game

The agency has endured more than 60 years in Washington by deciding who gets to know what, and when.

by Shane Harris

Saturday, June 6, 2009


Throughout its history, the Central Intelligence Agency has kept Congress in the dark about some of its most sensitive and controversial operations, all the while giving lawmakers just enough information that they have a hard time claiming later that they were clueless.

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