WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. intelligence community (IC) leaders on Tuesday warned that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains a menace to the United States, acknowledging that the terrorist group “still commands thousands of fighters” in Iraq and Syria and has expanded its jihadi “tentacles” beyond the Middle East and into various corners of the world “despite significant leadership and territorial losses.”
The strategic relationship between Russia and China, long marred by tensions and mutual suspicions, is “likely to strengthen” further in 2019 as both countries seek to upend the “liberal democratic model” across the globe and counter U.S. objectives, warned the U.S. intelligence community (IC) in its latest Worldwide Threat Assessment released on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. intelligence community (IC) unveiled its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment before a Senate panel on Tuesday, highlighting global perils facing the American people that range from Islamic terrorism and drug overdoses to artificial intelligence (AI) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed former Infowars D.C. bureau chief Jerome Corsi on Thursday, according to a report.
James Wolfe, a former employee of the Senate intelligence Committee, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
An article from the Intercept states that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s claims that Facebook only operates within countries that can uphold Facebook’s values are false.
In an article discussing Google’s refusal to send a sufficiently high-level executive to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bloomberg notes that the company’s refusal to work with Congress may result in harsher scrutiny and regulation in the future.
Sen. Rubio also said that Twitter shouldn’t censor when non-western governments complain about “misinformation.”
Facebook Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg said her company would present “alternative facts” to combat what she described as “misinformation” spread on Facebook’s digital platform. She offered her remarks during a Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee hearing ostensibly examining “Russian interference in U.S. elections” in Washington, DC.
Social media is sometimes described as a mirror of society. In Wednesdays social media hearings, the answers to questions about social media were largely just mirrors of the questions themselves.
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) condemned Google for refusing to send a senior representative to the committee’s hearing on foreign interference online.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has refused to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September.
Twitter this week suspended InfoWars host Alex Jones for seven days for what it said were violations of its policies, following Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify’s simultaneous banning last week.
According to WikiLeaks, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has called on WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to testify.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange provide testimony in relation to the Russia probe.
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a report of findings it announced back in May that supported the Intelligence Community Assessment released by the Obama administration in January 2017 that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.
The arrest of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s former security director James Wolfe on Friday has raised questions about the legitimacy and impartiality of the committee’s Russia probe.
James Wolfe, the former Senate Intelligence Committee security director charged with lying about his contacts with a series of journalists – including his former paramour, New York Times reporter Ali Watkins – appeared in court Friday after his arrest late Thursday night.
Fired FBI Director James Comey skipped a Wednesday closed-door Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, where top current and former Intelligence Community officials reviewed conclusions about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Nominee for CIA Director, Gina Haspel pledged to never restart a CIA interrogations program as she sat before a panel of Senators grilling her in Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearings on Wednesday.
Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign adviser, this week blasted the Senate Intelligence Committee and others for running an investigation partially based on a Democratic-funded smear campaign.
Stars & Stripes reports that smartphones made by the Chinese company Huawei are being sold to U.S. military personnel at exchanges on military bases in Germany. Defense officials explained that until Huawei products are explicitly banned by statute or regulation, they will remain available. A bill that would bar U.S. government contractors from using Huawei equipment is currently making its way through Congress.
Former FBI Director James Comey may have misled the public when he claimed in his recently released book that he only provided “one unclassified memo” to an associate with the purpose of sharing the contents with a reporter.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded its Russia probe, but the committee’s Senate counterpart is continuing forward with its investigation.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) said Tuesday the committee has no conclusions yet related to Russia collusion.
Senate intelligence committee Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) wants the committee’s probe of Russian meddling to move into President Trump’s finances, despite opposition from Republican — and even Democratic — colleagues.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the chairman of the intelligence committee, has defended President Trump’s reluctance to talk about Russia as a threat, as well as his strategy with North Korea so far.
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner did not disclose details to Senate investigators of an outreach from a banker linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin — an approach that Kushner rejected.
(New York, NY) — There are legitimate questions about whether money from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) found its way into the hands of former and possibly current members of the Russian government as well as the Kremlin’s intelligence services cited as “sources” in the infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump.
Almost 10 months into its investigation, the Senate intelligence committee has not yet made “initial findings” on whether the Trump administration colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, its chairman said Wednesday.
White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reportedly moved their email accounts to computers run by the Trump Organization.
Hundreds of White House emails were reportedly sent to a third, and previously unknown, email account on White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s private domain — raising yet more questions about the couple’s use of private email
Jared Kushner reportedly did not tell the Senate Intelligence Committee of the existence of his personal email account.
The Senate intelligence committee canceled a scheduled meeting with President Trump’s attorney Michael D. Cohen on Tuesday, before he could deliver a prepared statement that categorically denied any collusion with Russia by him or the president.
Donald Trump Jr. will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors, the committee announced Tuesday.
Citing alleged U.S. intelligence intercepts leaked by current and former U.S. officials, the Washington Post reported that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told his superiors at the Kremlin that he discussed issues related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Jeff Sessions despite the attorney general’s assertions to the contrary.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner denied colluding with Russia Monday afternoon, saying in a rare public statement that his father-in-law Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election because he “had a better message and ran a smarter campaign.”
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner released a statement ahead of his closed-door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, stating flatly that there is no collusion on his part involving the Russians, either during the 2016 presidential election or during the transition period.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. will appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, the committee announced Wednesday — while Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will reportedly appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed hearing.
Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) was the only Republican to vote against Kate’s Law, a law that would impose harsher penalties on deported aliens who try to return to the United States.
