Former LAPD Police Chief and Collaborate Or Perish! author William Bratton seems to have dropped something of a bomb on Current TV’s The Young Turks, telling host Cenk Uygur Tuesday night that his LAPD “had interactions with the CIA” to “to make them aware of our capabilities and our needs.”

While the CIA’s coordination with the NYPD has been big news, Bratton’s bombshell has proven a silent but deadly, barely registering with the news media.

Candidate Sen. Barack Obama faced plenty of criticism for being wet behind the ears on national security issues, particularly in contrast to his war hero opponent. And yet the highlight of his tenure so far has been the near eradication of Al Qaeda. On last night’s program, Rachel Maddow looked back on the Obama administration’s terror victories and asks whether the fact that the two leaders killed this weekend had American citizenship should change the legal status of the attacks that killed them.

Never accuse the CIA of being uncreative (because they’ll find out about it): The agency set up a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of its efforts to obtain DNA evidence proving that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden and his family were hiding in the suburban neighborhood.

A Pakistani doctor working with the operation was able to gain access into the now-notorious Bin Laden compound, but was unable to gather DNA samples from either the ol’ bearded one himself, nor his family members. Maybe the CIA should have taken a page from Britain’s MI6 and set up a bake sale instead.

Yesterday, the AP published an extensive piece on “John,” the CIA agent they claim to be the single most important person on the mission to find Osama bin Laden. Needless to say, it took little time for someone to attempt to identify the man, and today Gawker published photos from the White House Twitter feed claiming them to be of the man, courtesy of a leak website that traffics in such information. While there is no confirmation as to the man’s identity, someone may have been tossed into al-Qaeda’s cross-hairs today.

With hacking becoming a full-fledged epidemic for the American government, from the CIA and FBI to PBS.org and police departments having their files leaked, Daily Show correspondent John Hodgeman presented viewers with his delightful mustache– but also with a handy guide to protecting yourself from hackers. The first tip? A flattering remark a day keeps LulzSec away.

LulzSec (“Laughing at your security since 2011!”) is an offshoot of Anonymous that has gained increasing notoriety after its members successfully hacked websites belonging to major corporations (like Sony), networks, such as PBS, and government agencies.

The group is taking credit for taking CIA.gov offline yesterday afternoon, although the agency has yet to issue confirmation of a hack. In addition, it appears that the official website of the U.S. Senate may have been hacked by the group this week for a second time.

With the caveat that the odds of finding “the good stuff” are now extremely low, a CIA forensic team once again entered Osama bin Laden‘s Abbottabad compound yesterday for a final combing through of the terrorist’s dwelling. This time, however, they were accompanied by a Pakistani ISI troop– a sign that the governments of both nations are attempting to patch up the grievances erupting from America’s unannounced visit to the compound last month.

SEAL Team Six, the name given to the elite group that successfully raided Osama bin Laden‘s Abottabad compound, is, by design, shrouded in secrecy. So it’s quite – discreetly adjusts tin-foil helmet – well-timed that, now, when the team is enjoying (quietly, and away from the general public) the good cheer and accolades coming its way, a new memoir by a former SEAL Team Six member is hitting bookshelves. The book, due out this month, promises to offer some insight into the workings of this mysterious, highly-trained group.

CIA chief Leon Panetta is discussing the raid that resulted in the successful capture and death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, telling Time that “U.S. officials feared that Pakistan could have undermined the operation by leaking word to its targets,” despite the fact that Pakistan is a U.S. ally.

With one prominent exception, the usual anti-Obama suspects embraced the news of the military’s success at killing Osama Bin Laden yesterday, and Sean Hannity was no different. Opening his program with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tonight, he gave the President “lots of credit” for being “gutsy” and even went as far as to call it “the opposite of what candidate Obama said he would do,” which must be a high compliment.

With Osama bin Laden the top story on every cable news station today, one would be forgiven in believing that America has somehow sunk into a timewarp back to 2004. Adding to the surrealism today? The 8PM news hour on MSNBC opening up shop with an anti-Bush monologue laced with quotes from the President on al-Qaeda, courtesy of Lawrence O’Donnell.

A Virginia Beach-based team of Navy SEALS is credited with finally bringing down Osama bin Laden, the man the United States (and, well, the world) has been trying to capture for years.

“Team Six” – a moniker given to the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (or DevGru, for short) – had been undergoing extensive training to ensure that their raids would unfold flawlessly, even practicing their skills in a replicated one-acre compound built on Camp Alpha. DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command and reports to the President, their missions and training always highly classified.

Federal authorities have been delving, deeply, into the personal activities of New York Times reporter James Risen in their investigation to discover who leaked information to Risen about a CIA attempt to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program – information Risen wrote about in his 2006 book State of War.

Today’s New York Times dropped a massive piece on the United States’ expanding “shadow wars” in nearly a dozen countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa — wars that have gone on largely unannounced and unnoticed by the American public.

On Wednesday, The Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman profiled a young information services company called Recorded Future, which monitors the web in real time and, to be perfectly honest, sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Recorded Future uses a collection of futuristic-sounding analytical tools like a “temporal analytics engine” and “sentiment analysis” to “find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents—both present and still-to-come.”

Yesterday the Justice Department released a 2004 memo detailing abuses that took place inside the CIA’s overseas prisons. Shortly thereafter the NYT took the unusual step of posting the entire report in a document reader on its website and invited “readers to help us annotate and make sense of the new details.” Unusual for the Times, very much. Unusual for the Internet, not at all.

The release of an internal report on CIA torture practices in 2004, followed by a memo from the Agency’s director Leon Panetta to its employees, have sparked headlines about a hostile Panetta threatening to leave his position. The buzz, however, seems to hover over an alleged “profanity-laced screaming match” between Panetta and a senior White House staff member over a month ago. As scandalous (and secretly awesome) as a dirty-mouthed high government official is, is the month-old tiff relevant, or just a juicy headline?