C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks  —  WASHINGTON, April 21 — The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons …

Top Shiites Nominate A Premier For Iraq  —  Al-Maliki Opposed Hussein And the U.S.-Led Invasion  —  BAGHDAD, April 21 — Jawad al-Maliki, an experienced political operator and advocate for Iraq's Shiite Muslims, won the approval of Shiite party leaders for the post of prime minister on Friday …

EU official: No evidence of illegal CIA action  —  Antiterror chief advises committee  —  BRUSSELS — Investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union's antiterrorism coordinator said yesterday.

Dispatch from Iraq: A tiny bit of comfort  —  A soldier sees and feels a wider variety of sights and emotions in a year than most people will experience in a lifetime. ...  In my short time in the military I have experienced more suffering than I could have imagined before joining up.

If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President  —  President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding.  In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive …

On Commenter Masha, Commenting from . . . You'll Never Guess!  —  This is rich.  Commenter "Masha" says (all emphasis mine): … The bloggers made him do it!  —  Read that comment again, with its ringing praise of the L.A. Times, and its silly caricature of bloggers as "worse than Pravda," spewing "idiotic propaganda."