For the first time since the so-called war on terrorism began, the United States is physically on the defensive, dealing with the fallout of the first successful home-soil attack since 9/11.

But in the minds of the American people, the United States hasn't been winning the war on terrorism for nearly a decade.

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Former CIA director Mike Hayden credits “an incredible band of sisters” for the success of the operation that found and brought down Osama bin Laden. Now one of those sisters has been appointed acting chief of the CIA’s National Clandestine service. It is a major milestone for women at the CIA, the first time in the agency’s history that a female officer has headed the clandestine service.

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A member of the secretive SEAL Team 6 tells CNN that a previous account of Osama bin Laden's shooting is "complete B-S."

The U.S. decision to give Osama bin Laden's son-in-law civilian, not military, treatment has reignited passionate debate on which justice is appropriate for someone who wages war on this country.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law has been charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law is scheduled to be in a New York City courtroom Friday morning to face charges of trying to kill Americans.

In what is expected to be his final media briefing as Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta got a little existential Wednesday.

Asked if there was anything about the 2011 CIA raid in Pakistan in which Osama bin Laden was killed that wasn’t publicly known, Panetta laughed, and indicated that some people might be confusing fact and fiction. “It wasn’t James Gandolfini who did that,” he said, referring to the actor who played him in “Zero Dark Thirty,” the movie about the Bin Laden operation.

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Peter Bergen says the interview with the bin Laden "shooter" adds important detail to the story of bin Laden's final minutes.

He's the man who rolled into a bedroom in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raised his gun and shot Osama bin Laden three times in the forehead.

Chris Lawrence looks into an account by a Navy SEAL who says he was the one who shot Osama bin Laden.