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OBAMA GIVES US INTELLIGENCE GREATER ACCESS TO WARRANTLESS DATA ON FOREIGNERS
The document stated that the changes were being made to enable US intelligence agencies to conduct their national security missions more effectively ... READ MORE›
'IT'S A DEPLORABLE RELATIONSHIP SO FAR'
The Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters, a hive of hush-hush operations in Langley, Va., makes no secret of the prominent wall engravings in its stark lobby... READ MORE›
TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE SHOWCASES DEEPENING RIFT WITH MEDIA AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
Trump sidelines CNN, calls the network fake news during first press conference since his 2016 election victory... READ MORE›
TRUMP SAYS INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR DENOUNCED 'FICTITIOUS' REPORT
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for the leaks during a news conference on Wednesday, before he spoke to Clapper... READ MORE›
TRUMP CONCEDES RUSSIA LIKELY HACKED DNC, ATTACKS US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES OVER LEAKS
Trump concedes Russia likely hacked DNC, attacks US intelligence agencies over leaks... READ MORE›
'NO EVIDENCE OF ELECTRONIC HACKING TRAIL LEADING TO RUSSIA'
RT FBI Director James Comey says his agency was denied access to the Democratic Party's servers... READ MORE›
TRUMP IS NOT INVESTIGATING A HACKED ELECTION. HE IS HOWEVER INVESTIGATING THOSE WHO REPORTED ON IT
On Saturday, Mr Trump took aim at the Democratic National Committee for allowing hacking to take place ... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN COURT: SWISS MUSLIM GIRLS MUST SWIM WITH BOYS
European Court of Human Rights upholds fines on Swiss Muslim parents who refused mixed swimming lessons for daughters... READ MORE›
MUSLIM PARENTS MUST SEND CHILDREN TO MIXED SWIMMING LESSONS, EUROPEAN COURT RULESA
Muslims girls in Switzerland must not be exempt from mixed swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights ECHR has said, in a potentially groundbreaking ruling... READ MORE›
REPUBLICANS STAND BEHIND TRUMP AND RUSSIA AGAINST U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
There is some contrary evidence, despite what the media speculates, that perhaps Donald Trump is not the best candidate for Russia, Cotton argued... READ MORE›
PUTIN ORDERED CYBER CAMPAIGN TO HELP TRUMP WIN ELECTION
We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election, the report said... READ MORE›
DECLASSIFIED REPORT SAYS PUTIN 'ORDERED' EFFORT TO UNDERMINE FAITH IN U.S. ELECTION AND HELP TRUMP
We assess Russian intelligence services will continue to develop capabilities to provide Putin with options to use against the United States, the report said... READ MORE›
TOP U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS TO BRIEF TRUMP ON RUSSIA, ELECTION HACKING
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the intelligence officials' assessments that Russia meddled in the election... READ MORE›
TRUMP SELECTS FORMER SEN. COATS FOR TOP INTELLIGENCE POST
WASHINGTON AP -- President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Indiana Sen... READ MORE›
TRUMP 'PICKS COATS' AS NEW US INTELLIGENCE CHIEF
Former US Senator Dan Coats is Donald Trump's choice as his Director of National Intelligence according to officials on the president-elect's transition team... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP USES TWITTER TO CAST DOUBT ON US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
Donald Trump uses Twitter to cast new doubt on US intelligence agencies ahead of meeting over alleged Russian hacking... READ MORE›
TOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL SAYS RUSSIA UNDOUBTEDLY MEDDLED IN ELECTION
In its assessment, the intelligence community has said Moscow interfered to help Republican Donald Trump win... READ MORE›
WHY TRUMP IS WRONG TO TARGET THE US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created to address that problem, and there has been remarkable progress in intelligence-sharing... READ MORE›
TRUMP PICKS FORMER U.S. SENATOR COATS AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The Democratic official said Coats knew a lot about Europe and Russia and might butt heads with Trump over Russia... READ MORE›
WHO HACKED? TRUMP CHALLENGES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HE'LL OVERSEE
But this Trump campaign has so far been a lonely one in Washington... READ MORE›
YES, 17 INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES REALLY DID SAY RUSSIA WAS BEHIND HACKING
The fact-checking website Politifact says Hillary Clinton is correct when she says 17 federal intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia is behind the hacking... READ MORE›
U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY RUSSIAN HACKS 'PRIORITIZED' DEMOCRATS
U.S. officials said the competing claims may reflect disagreement over terminology... READ MORE›
CONFLICT OVER RUSSIA IS ROCKY START FOR TRUMP AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
In fact, two officials with knowledge of the situation said on Saturday that Trump's transition team has made only incidental contact with the Central Intelligence Agency... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TURNING AWAY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS SINCE US ELECTION WIN
National security is Donald Trump's No.1 priority and I think he's taking it very seriously, Nunes said in an interview... READ MORE›
TRUMP TURNING AWAY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFERS SINCE ELECTION WIN
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, by contrast, has set aside time for intelligence briefings almost every day since the election, officials said... READ MORE›
PENTAGON AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CHIEFS HAVE URGED OBAMA TO REMOVE THE HEAD OF THE NSA
In any case, Rogers's term at the NSA and Cyber Command is due to end in the spring, officials said... READ MORE›
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AS RUSSIA REASSERTS ITSELF, U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES FOCUS ANEW ON THE KREMLIN
Despite Russia's high-profile cyber-exploits, current and former U.S. officials said Russia's digital espionage capabilities are inferior to those of the United States... READ MORE›
U.S. COURT RULES NSA CAN TEMPORARILY RESUME BULK PHONE DATA COLLECTION
Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that the Patriot Act had never authorized the NSA to collect Americans' phone records in bulk... READ MORE›
U.S. COURT HANDS WIN TO NSA OVER METADATA COLLECTION
Larry Klayman, the conservative lawyer who challenged the program, said he would appeal to the Supreme Court... READ MORE›
BRITAIN 'THREATENS TO STOP SHARING INTELLIGENCE' WITH GERMANY
Angela Merkel with her mobile phone The CIA's station chief in Berlin was asked to leave Germany after the news broke... READ MORE›
US INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS HAVE 'UNDERESTIMATED' ISIL'S PLAN TO ATTACK THE WEST
He said that because the jihadist group behaved differently to Al-Qaeda, which focuses on bigger, high profile attacks, the agencies were underestimating the Isil threat... READ MORE›
CIA CHIEF CRITICISES RECENT SURVEILLANCE ROLLBACKS IN WAKE OF PARIS ATTACKS
I think that was a useful tool to keep us safe and also to protect civil liberties... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT KIRCHNER TO DISSOLVE ARGENTINE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AFTER PROSECUTOR DEATH
During her hour-long speech, Mrs Kirchner called on Congress to dissolve the country's current intelligence services... READ MORE›
CHINA-LINKED HACKERS GET SENSITIVE U.S. DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE DATA
Intelligence and military personnel for security clearances that could potentially expose them to blackmail the Associated Press reported on Friday... READ MORE›
NSA'S SHUTTERED PROGRAM WAS 'A SACRIFICIAL LAMB' IN U.S. MASS SURVEILLANCE
The intelligence community uses bulk collection to really only mean, essentially, totally indiscriminate collection, he says... READ MORE›
CANADA SPY AGENCY STOPS SHARING INTELLIGENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTERS
In another report also released on Thursday, Canada's spy agency watchdog raised concerns about efforts by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS to counter insider threats ... READ MORE›
GERMANY CONFIRMS DEPARTURE OF SPY AGENCY CHIEF
Attacks by Islamist militants in Brussels last month and in Paris in November exposed flaws in how European intelligence agencies cooperate with each other... READ MORE›
PENTAGON TO INVESTIGATE CLAIM OF SKEWED INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS
Military intelligence analysts have painted an overly optimistic assessment of the war against the Islamic State officials said Wednesday... READ MORE›
SECOND HACK BY CHINESE EXPOSED U.S. MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE DATA
Members of Congress received classified briefings about that breach in September, but there was no mention of security clearance information being exposed... READ MORE›
SPY CHIEF PRESSED FOR NUMBER OF AMERICANS ENSNARED IN DATA ESPIONAGE
Prism gathers messaging data from Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and other major tech companies that is sent to and from a foreign target under surveillance... READ MORE›
PROFILE: EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The European Court of Human Rights should not be confused with the European Court of Justice... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN RIGHTS COURT RULES BOSSES CAN READ STAFF EMAILS
Bogdan Barbulescu, a Romanian engineer had argued that the company had failed to respect his his right to privacy... READ MORE›
EGYPTIAN CRASH SHOWS THE USEFULNESS OF MASS SURVEILLANCE ANALYSTS SAY
However, the intelligence services' claims should be approached with caution, according to Shashank Joshi, senior research fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE FIGHT: PENTAGON INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF SKEWED INTELLIGENCE
Numerous agencies produce intelligence assessments related to the Iraq war, including the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and others... READ MORE›
AFTER NOMINATION, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES GET INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS
The intelligence briefings could be eye-opening for New York businessman Donald Trump, though... READ MORE›
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'TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT,' TRUMP SAYS OF UNSUBSTANTIATED ACCUSATIONS ON RUSSIA TIES
Some material in the reports produced by the former British intelligence officer has proved to be erroneous, the official said... READ MORE›
TRUMP LEFT A TOUGH CHOICE BY OBAMA SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN HACKING
Sanctions against the Russian intelligence services are a good initial step, however late in coming... READ MORE›
Q&A: WHY THE CIA, FBI DIFFER ON RUSSIAN ELECTION HACKING
A The Obama administration has ordered a review of attempts by foreign hackers to influence U.S. elections... READ MORE›
RUSSIA INTERVENED TO HELP ELECT TRUMP CIA SAYS IN SECRET ASSESSMENT
Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton's chances... READ MORE›
OBAMAS LIGHT UP NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE FOR LAST TIME
President Barack Obama on Thursday marked his final time lighting the National Christmas Tree with a wish that Americans will care for the sick, the hungry... READ MORE›
GIVE TRUMP TIME, DON'T ASSUME WORST
Trump won the election after promising to build a wall on the US border with Mexico, rip up trade deals and ban Muslims temporarily from entering the United States... READ MORE›
OBAMA COACHES TRUMP TO BE WORLD LEADER
We are very deferential and respectful of the fact that we already have a president of the United States, Barack Obama, Conway told reporters... READ MORE›
OBAMA MEETS EUROPEAN LEADERS TO DISCUSS CHALLENGES
Following his meetings in Berlin, Obama heads to Peru, the final leg of his last foreign tour, for the Asia-Pacific trade summit... READ MORE›
TRUMP SET TO GET SPY AGENCY BRIEFINGS, VISIT OVAL OFFICE
President Barack Obama will host Donald Trump in the Oval Office Thursday, hoping to ease a smooth transition of power and steady nerves after an election... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT TRUMP OR PRESIDENT CLINTON? EITHER ONE COULD BE TROUBLE FOR TRUDEAU
Trudeau will extend that invitation to the 45th president of the United States, whoever he or she may be... READ MORE›
AMERICAN PSYCHO SYSTEM A 'CO-WORKER OF GOD'
US President Barack Obama made his eighth - and final - address to the United Nations General Assembly this week... READ MORE›
AP FACT CHECK: MULTIPLE MISSTEPS MARK TRUMP, CLINTON FORUM
THE FACTS The U.S. military already has an extensive justice system, one with roots in the U.S. Constitution... READ MORE›