Director of National Intelligence

Trump’s pick of Ambassador Ric Grenell as acting Deputy DNI has excited conservatives and outraged Democrats.

President Trump on Wednesday evening is expected to name Ambassador Richard Grenell as his new acting director of national intelligence.

Publishing a flurry of fake news as one of its hoaxes collapses, in this case the Ukraine Hoax, is standard operating procedure for the Washington Post and the rest of our crooked news media.

President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy Fred Fleitz is back in the running for Director of National Intelligence, according to a source.

“Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

This week, it was announced President Donald Trump had selected Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats with the hope he would “rein in” intelligence agencies that have “run amok.” In an interview Wednesday

The nation’s top intelligence official told members of Congress Wednesday that the intelligence community expects Russia to continue influence operations targeting the United States.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday about the risk posed by the national debt.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, when recently asked about a Washington Post article, said he does not rely on news headlines and breaking news anymore due to doubts about their accuracy.

President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing former Republican primary rival Carly Fiorina, who chaired the CIA’s civilian external advisory board during the George W. Bush Administration, as Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Americans may soon find themselves living in a dictator-ruled autocracy, courtesy of President-elect Donald Trump’s appointments of retired high-ranking military officers to top national security positions within his administration, claims an opinion article published in the Washington Post (WaPo).

As expected, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has submitted his resignation, concluding 50 years of government service.

Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper lamented that convincing North Korea to denuclearize is “probably a lost cause” during a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations. He added that “significant inducements” to limit their nuclear program would be the only solution to eliminating the threat of an attack on one of its neighbors.

National security experts spoke with Breitbart News Senior Legal Editor Ken Klukowski as he guest-hosted the nationally syndicated show Washington Watch on Monday, discussing national security in the Trump administration/

The Obama administration has killed from 64 to 116 civilians, as well as between 2,372 and 2,581 combatants in drone and other lethal airstrikes targeting terrorists outside principal war zones like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, according to a much-anticipated report from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), released Friday.

Texas is standing up to the federal government saying officials will not agree to a 25 percent increase to the number of refugees placed in the state.

The Obama administration is secretly preparing to transfer up to 24 prisoners out of the U.S. military detention center Guantánamo Bay in Cuba by the end of the summer, the Guardian and Fox News report, citing unnamed sources.

The number foreign fighters traveling to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has dropped by 90 percent, from nearly 2,000 per month to 200 within the past year, according to the Pentagon.

Nearly a dozen detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are expected to be transferred in the coming weeks to at least two countries, Reuters learned from a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A new cyber weapon developed by the U.S. military is at full operational capacity and at the disposal of Air Force Cyber Protection Teams, according to the service’s space command.

Forty percent of intelligence analysts working at the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which is charged with the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), warned that the “analytic integrity” of their work is flawed, the chairman of a top House panel said on Thursday.

Last summer brought a surprisingly short-lived scandal about the Obama administration cooking the books to make the president’s strategy against the Islamic State look far more successful than it actually was. Now there are whistleblowers charging that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper knew the ISIS reports were excessively “optimistic.”

The annual security briefing delivered to the Senate Intelligence Committee by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has added the Zika virus to the list of infections diseases threatening the United States, on the same list as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Ebola.

During the same laugh-a-minute Senate report where he said North Korea was a major nuclear threat, and that Iran would soon join them, and that ISIS was using the “torrent of migrants” from Syria to infiltrate the Western world, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also said on Tuesday that electronic surveillance would soon be possible through nearly every device in the home.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) indicates that 2016 may be the worst year in history for terrorism, primarily at the hands of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al Qaeda (AQ).