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A new “Cyber Security Centre”? Do we really need it? Crikey’s Canberra correspondent details why you shouldn’t believe the hype on the risks of cyber warfare and cybercrime.

Earlier this week the CIA announced it had thwarted plans for an Al Qaeda operative sent to destroy a US-bound plane with a complicated underwear bomb. It’s now been revealed that the operative was a double agent …

US president Barack Obama announced that the US military will leave Iraq by December 31 this year. But the CIA has a number of covert programs and counter-terrorism operations in Iraq that will continue, writes Eli Lake.

The new Wired chatlogs alleged to be by Bradley Manning reveal a lonely, deeply unwell LGBT man at the centre of the US military’s secrets.

So farewell to Lulzsec, who burnt brightly but, it turns out, briefly in the firmament of cyber security with a rapid-fire series of cracks and thefts …

The CIA, which have remained largely unaffected by the WikiLeaks controversies, have launched a special WikiLeaks Task Force to measure the impact of Julian Assange’s whistle-blowing website. The acronym, WTF, is all too apt, reports Greg Miller.

New evidence has emerged from a 600 page report written in 2006 that the CIA collaborated with Nazi war criminals and granted them a safe haven in America, writes Toby Harnden.

The CIA created a fake video showing Osama bin Laden and his crew sitting around a campfire drinking and bragging about their “conquests with boys” — and had plans to “flood Iraq” with fake videos of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy, the Washington Post reveals.

The NYT reveals the US is still is running a potentially illegal “rogue operation” of private spies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, employing former CIA agents and Special-Ops soldiers to gather information.

The AP has compiled a chilling expose into the sketchy death of a suspected Afghan militant in the CIA’s secret “salt pit” prison in Kabul in 2002.

CIA officers in Afghanistan threw a big birthday bash for a spy they thought could help them crack al-Qaeda — but he missed the party, because he was busy blowing himself and seven CIA officers up.

The NY Observer has the bizarre inside scoop on how the CIA’s failed attempt to recruit a “fat”, “gay” terrorist as a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda, and how the whole saga may have prevented the FBI from foiling 9/11.

A US Defence Dept official has been running an “off-the-books” spy operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the NYT reveals, paying former CIA and Special Forces soldiers to track down and kill militants.

Newly released internal CIA documents reveal lays bare the brutal details of the CIA’s waterboarding practices — the precise methods, techniques and specially designed equipment used to maximise the agony.

The Pentagon and CIA are still employing controversial military contractor Blackwater in Afghanistan (albeit under a new name), despite allegations of involvement in murder, gun-running, child prostitution and more, ABC News reveals.

The CIA is allowing its agents to earn some extra cash by working for private companies on the side, with many offering their special skills as “human lie detectors” to help financial firms and hedge funds get an edge on the stock market.

Elite helicopter-borne US forces have been conducting clandestine raids into Pakistan at night as part of an ongoing secret war near the country’s Afghanistan border, according to a former Nato officer.

It’s been a year since Bush left the White House, yet so much about his “War on Terror” is still unknown: what did Cheney really know? Where have all the CIA’s prisoners gone? Who forged the Yellowcake documents?

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the government hasn’t had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden “in years”. So where the bloody hell is he?

The former head of controversial US military contractor Blackwater, Erik Prince, tells all to Vanity Fair about the company’s assassination and espionage work for the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq

The US is paying controversial private military contractor Blackwater to plan targeted drone-strike assassinations and run “snatch and grab” operations on key Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, according to an investigation by The Nation.