Denmark Suspends Foreign Spy Agency Chief, 2 Others
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government said Monday that the head of the country’s foreign intelligence service has been “relieved
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Manafort Ties to Russia Posed ‘Grave Threat,’ Senate Concludes
The Senate Intelligence Committee wrapped up its long-running investigation of Russian meddling in U.S. elections on Tuesday with a sharp indictment of Paul Manafort, the now-convicted former chairman of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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Russia Wants Trump to Win, but China Wants Him to Lose
A top intelligence official said Friday that Russia is trying to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election chances by undermining his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, while China wants the former vice president to win because it sees Trump as unpredictable.
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US Says Russia Is Spreading Virus Disinformation Here
Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that the United States is struggling to contain during a presidential election year, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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Top EU Court Throws Out US Data-Sharing Pact for Flouting Privacy
Swayed by evidence that U.S. intelligence authorities surveil users illegally, the EU’s highest court struck down a pact that lets companies move data between the United States and European Union.
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Briefed on Bounty Intel, Democrats See Little Trace of Hoax
After a White House briefing Tuesday morning, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said there was no information to back up President Donald Trump’s snubbing of reports that Russian officials offered bounties to Taliban soldiers in exchange for American lives.
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Trump Denies Briefing About Reported Bounties on US Troops
The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump wasn’t briefed on U.S. intelligence assessments earlier this year that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan because the information had not been “verified.”
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Senate Panel Votes to Let Public Access UFO Records
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to require intelligence agencies and the Defense Department to publicly track and analyze data collected on “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly referred to as UFOs.
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Journalists Accused of Revealing Secrets on Trial in Turkey
Seven journalists went on trial on Wednesday, accused of revealing state secrets for their reports on the funeral of an intelligence officer who was killed in Libya.
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From Congress to Spy Chief: Senate Confirms Ratcliffe Posting
The Senate confirmed Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as director of national intelligence Thursday, ending a nine-month nomination saga for the staunch Trump ally.
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Senate Panel Narrowly Advances Trump Pick for Intelligence Director
Behind closed doors in a secure facility on Capitol Hill, Republicans pushed President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Congressman John Ratcliffe, closer to the finish line Tuesday.
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Rubio Tapped to Chair Senate Intel Committee During Burr Probe
With Senator Richard Burr stepping down from the position amid a probe into his stock transactions, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio will take over as acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Tapped by Trump for Top Spy Post, Ratcliffe Vows to Put Politics Aside
In a contentious and socially distanced hearing, the Senate worked Tuesday to install as the nation’s senior-most spy chief Representative John Ratcliffe, mere months after the Texas Republican staunchly opposed the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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Bipartisan Senate Panel Backs Conclusion on Russian Meddling
Adopting a conclusion reached long ago by the U.S. intelligence community, the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee signed off Tuesday on findings that the plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election had come out of Russia.
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US Medical Intelligence Warned of New Virus in February
In late February when President Trump was urging Americans not to panic over the novel coronavirus, alarms were sounding at a little-known intelligence unit on a U.S. Army base an hour’s drive north of Washington, D.C.
Read moreTrump Fires Watchdog Who Alerted Congress to Whistleblower Complaint
President Trump fired Michael Atkinson Friday night, the inspector general for the intelligence community who oversaw the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment.
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A federal court in Washington upheld a majority of Freedom of Information Act request withholdings challenged by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman who seeks every record in federal intelligence agencies’ files that mentions his name. Gellman, who is writing a book about intelligence gathering, reported on documents leaked to him from Edward Snowden.
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Trump Renominates Controversial Pick for Intelligence Chief
President Donald Trump again nominated Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as director of national intelligence Friday, a move that comes just months after the Republican lawmaker’s first nomination fell apart amid closer scrutiny of his record as a prosecutor.
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Reliability of Pricey New Voting Machines Questioned
In the rush to replace insecure, unreliable electronic voting machines after Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, state and local officials have scrambled to acquire more trustworthy equipment for November, when U.S. intelligence agencies fear even worse problems.
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US Counter-Terror Analyst Pleads Guilty to Leaking Secret Info
A counter-terrorism analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency pleaded guilty on Thursday to leaking secret information to journalists, including details about foreign countries’ weapons systems.
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