Press TV | An ex- CIA agent and major critic of US torturing of “terror suspects,” who was charged with leaking classified information, has been forced to plead guilty to a single charge in a plea bargain agreement with government prosecutors.

Politico | Washington has many “secrets,” but few secrets. The Obama administration will face a test on the difference this month, in a case probing a major national security program. The administration is defending a federal court challenge to one of its most significant operations in the war against Al Qaeda: the drone program of targeted killings. President Barack Obama’s lawyers insist the entire program is a “secret” — so it can’t even be hauled into court in the first place.

The Blaze | On rare occasions, members of the hacker collective Anonymous speak out as individuals. Recently, a member known as Commander X (his real name is Christopher Doyon) granted the Montreal Gazette in Canada an interview in which he revealed the hackvists claim to have access to every federal government database.

AP |  A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA's three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product. The CIA characterized the volume in court papers as "a polemic of recriminations against CIA officers who later criticized the operation."