Robert Baer

Former CIA case officer Robert Baer supervised Gina Haspel and says she is the right person to talk President Trump out of potential foreign policy disasters.

The CIA went out of is way to lie to the White House and Congress about the intelligence derived from torture, and the level of violence inflicted on detainees, among other things.

When we think of spies in love, we might imagine the wacky but passionate Boris and Natasha. Alternatively, we might think of Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, depicting Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson in the movie “Fair Game.” But what’s life really like for an undercover couple? Robert Baer and Dayna Baer know. They are two dedicated CIA agents, who had more or less given up on their personal lives, but fell in love on a mission to Sarajevo.

What happens when two spies fall in love? It sounds like the beginning of a riddle, but for Robert Baer and Dayna Baer, it was simply their life. Stationed in Croatia in the early 1990s, Robert was a seasoned agent biding his time and Dayna was an up and comer hoping to learn from a veteran and then get out. In The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story, the Baers recount their unlikely affair and what happened once they tried to leave The Company.

Robert Baer, a former CIA officer and intelligence columnist for TIME.com, talks about the new batch of Wikileaks documents and some of their implications.

Recent news stories have shed light on the work of the CIA, including the agency's role in intelligence gathering on the Christmas Day bomb plot. Robert Baer, former CIA officer and intelligence columnist for TIME.com, explains what these stories tell us about how the agency operates now.

Yesterday on the Brian Lehrer Show, former senator Bob Graham denied that he was briefed by the CIA on the use of extreme interrogation methods when he served on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was briefed, but was told the US wasn't using waterboarding. ...

"Whether we're convinced if he's dead or not, [Obama] can never give up the hunt for bin Laden. He can not afford it politically, even though in his heart he knows it's a waste of peo...

What to do about Iran has been a hot topic in American foreign policy debate for a long time. Former CIA operative Robert Baer says that Iran is already well on its way to becoming a superpower. His new book is The Devil We Know.

Robert Baer, intelligence columnist for Time.com, former CIA field officer and author, and Shane Harris, the intelligence correspondent for National Journal, talk about the information on Iran's nuclear capacity found in the NIE report.