Obama says WikiLeaks disclosure is reason for concern but doesn't reveal new issues

President Obama said Tuesday that the Afghanistan war documents leaked this week raise no fundamentally new issues about the conflict but added that their disclosure "could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations."

2 missing U.S. sailors in Afghanistan took wrong turn, NATO says

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WikiLeaks documents cause little concern over public perception of war

The Obama administration and its allies in Congress sought Monday to turn the leak of more than 91,000 classified documents about operations in Afghanistan into an affirmation of the president's decision to shift strategy and boost troop levels in the nearly nine-year-long war.

Judge orders Fairfax terror suspect to remain in jail until his trial

A Fairfax man accused of trying to join an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Somalia poses a danger to the community and his family and will remain in jail until trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis ordered Monday.

Obama's busy week ahead: Plugging leaked documents, post-Sherrod, plant visits

The White House could be excused for wanting an easy week. This won't be one.

Leaked files lay bare war in Afghanistan

Tens of thousands of classified documents related to the Afghan war released without authorization by the group Wikileaks.org reveal in often excruciating detail the struggles U.S. troops have faced in battling an increasingly potent Taliban force and in working with Pakistani allies who also appear to be helping the Afghan insurgency.

CORRECTIONS

In the July 21 A1 article "The secrets next door," part of the Top Secret America series, the name of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center was incorrectly given as the National Aerospace Intelligence Center. The Top Secret America companies database online has also been updated since it debuted. For all of the changes, please see the Reference section of http://www.topsecretamerica.com and click on Corrections and Updates.

Experts discuss the government's growing intelligence network: Is it too big?

Slade Gorton, a former U.S. senator and Washington State attorney general, served on the 9/11 Commission.

Retired CIA veteran will return to head clandestine service

John D. Bennett, a CIA veteran who served as station chief in Pakistan until last year and who has had numerous other overseas postings, has been appointed head of the agency's National Clandestine Service, Director Leon E. Panetta announced Wednesday.

Obama's intelligence nominee says he won't be a 'hood ornament'

President Obama's nominee to lead the nation's intelligence community vowed Tuesday to "push the envelope" in asserting his authority and pledged that he would not be a "hood ornament" for a system marked by the recent massive expansion of top-secret agencies and contracts.

Cabinet secretaries Clinton, Gates visit DMZ in show of support for South Korea

PANMUNJOM, KOREA -- In a show of support for South Korea, four months after one of its warships sank in a mysterious attack, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited on Wednesday the infamous no-man's land that has divided the Korean Peninsula for more than a half-century.

Clinton arrives in Kabul for Afghanistan summit, meets with Karzai

KABUL -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here Monday night to participate in a conference at which Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scheduled to present concrete plans for improving governance, combating corruption, and beginning a peace process with both low-level Taliban fighters and their leaders.