Articles by Karen DeYoung

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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.

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Newly Released CIA Files Expose Grim Details of Agency Interrogation Program
Greg Miller, Karen DeYoung and Julie Tate – The Washington Post, 20 Jun 2016

14 Jun 2016 – The files include granular descriptions of the inner workings of the CIA’s “black site” prisons, messages sent to CIA headquarters from field officers who expressed deep misgivings with how detainees were being treated and secret memos raising objections to the roles played by doctors and psychologists in the administration of treatment later condemned as torture.

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U.S.-Trained Fighters in Syria Gave Equipment to Al-Qaeda Affiliate
Karen DeYoung – The Washington Post, 28 Sep 2015

In a statement correcting earlier assertions that reports of the turnover were a “lie” and a militant propaganda ploy, the command said it was subsequently notified that the Syrian unit had “surrendered” some of its equipment — including six pickup trucks and a portion of its ammunition — to Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria.

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