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President Trump Meets With NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte In The Oval Office Of The White House

How Europeans are reacting to the Yemen war plans group chat

2:24pm March 26, 2025

In Europe, there's now a sense of a "broken relationship" in discovering "the extent of American hostility," one French analyst says. "But like in love, there is life after a breakup."

Intelligence Directors Testify At Senate Hearing On Worldwide Threats

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'Plain sloppiness': Sen. Mark Warner says on Signal chat fiasco

7:07pm March 25, 2025

During a heated Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Warner described the actions of the nation's top intelligence officials as "sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior.

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Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers

12:49pm March 25, 2025

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

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Intelligence leaders: We didn't share classified information in Signal chat group

9:16am March 25, 2025

The CIA Director and the Director of National Intelligence testified that they did not share classified information in a messaging group chat that discussed the U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen.

Lyla Kohistany served on active duty from 2001 to 2007 as a Naval Surface Warfare and Intelligence officer and as an intelligence consultant from 2008 to 2013 where she worked from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Po

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As A Child, She Fled The Afghan War. As An Officer, She Returned — And Found Herself

5:14pm July 20, 2021

by Quil Lawrence

Every day of Lyla Kohistany's life, her native country was at war. But the first time she really saw the place, she was a 25-year-old U.S. Navy intelligence officer.

Avril Haines has been nominated as the first woman to be the director of national intelligence, a position that oversees all 17 intelligence agencies. Here, Haines speaks after President-elect Joe Biden introduced her last week in Wilmington, Del.

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The Winding Journey Of Avril Haines, Biden's Pick To Lead U.S. Intelligence

8:10pm November 30, 2020

by Greg Myre

Avril Haines, the first woman nominated to the top intelligence post, took a strange path to this job. She studied judo in Japan, physics in college, and rebuilt a plane that she later crash-landed.

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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has been making public appearances all week as part of the tour for his new book.

FACT CHECK: No, Clapper Has Not 'Admitted That There Was Spying' On Trump Campaign

3:08pm May 24, 2018

by Philip Ewing

The former spy baron has been making the rounds on his book tour, but he did not say what Donald Trump claimed he said about FBI surveillance.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo departs the Capitol on Tuesday after briefing members of the House Intelligence Committee following reports that President Trump shared classified information with two Russian diplomats during a meeting in the Oval Office.

Commentary: How Trump's Information-Sharing Hurts The Intelligence Community

9:11pm May 17, 2017

by Aki Peritz

The U.S. needs friends to fight terrorism, writes former CIA analyst Aki Peritz, and President Trump's actions are making it harder for the intelligence community to do its job.

Trump Says He Has 'Absolute Right' To Share Intelligence With Russia

9:24pm May 16, 2017

by Domenico Montanaro

The president is accused of leaking "highly classified" information in a meeting at the White House with Russian officials. Trump has said he gave them information and has defended doing so.

Senate Intelligence Committee Moves Forward With Bipartisan Russia Investigation

4:48pm March 29, 2017

by Eddie Garcia

Leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee held a press conference Wednesday on possible Russian influence in last year's election.