Spencer Ackerman is a senior reporter for The Washington Independent,
where he covers national security.
The history of American intelligence-gathering is rife with incompetence, dysfunction and contempt toward legislative oversight.
The Army's plan to professionalize Iraq's police could backfire, as militia-infiltrated squads become more effective killers.
As the hunt for homegrown terrorists sympathetic to Hezbollah intensifies, the Muslims of Dearborn, Michigan are losing their trust in American justice.


