Jeff Stein

  • Bin Laden's Olympic dreams

    Al-Qaida conducted "meticulous" surveillance of Salt Lake City, intelligence official says.
  • Searching for Saddam's replacement

    Washington reaches out to ex-Iraqi generals.
  • Diminished intelligence

    Ex-spies say the CIA isn't up to the task of out-smarting Osama bin Laden -- despite billions of new spending in the wake of his embassy bombings.
  • Send in the clowns

    How Ringling Bros. minions tormented a freelance writer for eight years.
  • The Greatest Vendetta on Earth

    Why would the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hire a former top CIA honcho to torment a hapless freelance writer for eight years?
  • Treachery over the Andes

    The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no.
  • Back-stabbing, CIA-style

    The John Deutch scandal shows that the spooks spend more time trying to ruin each other than they do chasing down security breaches.
  • The man Clinton could have been

    Sen. Tom Daschle, the Democrats' point man on impeachment, is a tough negotiator who could save Clinton from himself.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Don't let junkie turn misspent youth into profit; Brazil's "raceless" society; what's the truth about Waco?
  • Letters to the Editor

    Is Britney Spears just "lovestruck"? Plus: Gates' personality quirks conceal real issues in Redmond; selling science with sex appeal.
  • Delta team at Waco?

    A former CIA official says Army commandos played a role in the deadly standoff.
  • Espionage without evidence

    Is it racism, or realism, to look at Chinese-Americans when trying to figure out who's spying for China?
  • Letters to the Editor

    Roger Ebert agrees: Critics get a raw deal. Plus: Debating disabled scholarship; don't let AT&T control our Internet!
  • Uncle Sam wants you -- in the dark

    The Navy is trying to sink an exposi of the phony "gay" scandal behind the explosion on the USS Iowa.
  • "Christian Identity is for pantywaists"

    Right-wingers debate Buford Furrow's goals and his organizational ties.
  • Who's crying now?

    Linda Tripp, whose secret tapes of a tearful Monica Lewinsky almost brought down a president, now faces the long arm of the law herself for recording those fateful tapes illegally.
  • Free-for-all at Free Republic

    Lucianne Goldberg, Matt Drudge and other friends abandon the Clinton-bashing Web site over its attacks on George W. Bush.
  • Spies and lies

    Scientist Wen Ho Lee passed a polygraph test, but the feds want to depend more on them to detect espionage.
  • Why the Chinese embassy was bombed

    A senior intelligence official says the CIA team in charge of choosing targets has no recent Belgrade experience.
  • Bungling in Buffalo

    Fugitive James Kopp is finally charged in the killing of an abortion doctor after the FBI harasses the wrong men.
  • Letters to the Editor

    The anti-abortion movement lives; trepanation advocates have little to lose.
  • Foul ball

    The State Department interferes with the second Cuba-Orioles game.
  • Has violence killed the anti-abortion movement?

    Operation Rescue's Buffalo fizzle showed that big clinic protests are a thing of the past, but they may have already done their damage.
  • Did Eric Rudolph try to surrender?

    A national anti-abortion activist says he was asked to help the fugitive bombing suspect turn himself in to authorities last year -- but "nothing came of it."
  • Shadow dancing in Buffalo

    A drag show kicks off a week of abortion protests, as gays and pro-life Christians square off in a culture-war showdown.
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