We are a year into the Trump administration, and we’re still trying to get a grip on why the agencies that report to him continue to slow-walk the release of information the public rightfully should have. The latest instance involves alleged Russian meddling in European elections, something we think the administration would want to be known.
The dramatic losses the Islamic State (ISIS) has sustained at the hands of the American-led coalition and its local allies have failed to take a toll on the jihadist group’s global reach, the head of U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) told a House panel.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah is sending jihadists to Peru to prepare “for attacks,” warned the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) during a Senate panel hearing on threats to the U.S. homeland.
Intelligence agencies violated the constitutional rights of American citizens through illegal surveillance during the Obama administration, recently declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) show.
During yesterday’s Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, put the kibosh on a major anti-Donald Trump talking point that 17 federal intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
The National Security Agency collected 151 million phone records in 2016, according to a report released Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump criticized the return of 122 jihadists released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to jihadist activity on Twitter Tuesday, blaming his predecessor Barack Obama.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement on Wednesday night disputing a report that career intelligence officials have been withholding information from President Trump and his national security team.
The U.S. government is working on a new report, mandated by legislation signed into law before President Donald Trump took office, to evaluate whether the Russian and Chinese leadership have the capacity to survive a nuclear strike.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering signing an executive order that would direct the Pentagon to continue using the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba “for the detention and trial of newly captured” detainees linked to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden warned against prematurely establishing an Islamic state, according to newly released documents recovered during the 2011 raid that killed the jihadi group’s sheikh.
Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday “there is no truth” to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that the president-elect is working with top advisers to restructure the nation’s top spy agency.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At least 161 jihadists have been liberated from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during President Barack Obama’s tenure, including nine who are known to have reengaged in terrorist activities and 11 suspected of doing so, reveals a report by the Office the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has transferred three prisoners out of the U.S. military detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the last few days — one was taken to Italy and two were sent to Serbia, bringing the prison population down to 76, according to the Pentagon.
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.
A growing number of former Guantánamo Bay detainees are returning to the battlefield to fight for jihad, even as President Obama pushes a plan to close the prison for good.
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.”
A video excerpt from an October 21st House Homeland Security Committee hearing reveals exactly why Texas Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) is calling for “a screeching halt” to Syrian resettlement in the country. He and Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) are sponsoring a bill which would give governors the ability to protect their states by refusing to accept Syrian refugees.
Usama bin Ladin (UBL) was an adherent of climate change who argued that fighting the phenomenon is an arrogant Western insult to Allah’s will, according to recently unclassified documents recovered during the raid on the compound where the al Qaeda leader was killed.
