Tag: NSA

President Trump refused on Thursday to solely blame Russia for interference in the 2016 presidential election last year in a statement made less than a day before his first in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump won’t solely blame Russia for interfering in 2016 election, one day before Putin meeting

Anna Giaritelli · July 6, 2017 11:42 am

The New York Times could use some humility. Although it was correct that the intelligence community agrees Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, it clearly borrowed the line citing all 17 agencies from the Hillary Clinton campaign itself. Importantly, it's erroneous, and the intelligence community itself has clarified this. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

A rather large New York Times correction

Becket Adams · June 30, 2017 4:01 am

Reality Leigh Winner, the 25-year-old government contractor accused of leaking classified information to the press, appeared in federal court on Tuesday. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

National Security

Alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner appears in federal court, receives trial date

Josh Siegel · June 28, 2017 4:29 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., pressed intelligence agency officials if conversations he may have had with foreign officials were surveilled, and if his name was "unmasked." (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

National Security

Lindsey Graham frustrated intelligence officials won’t tell him if he was ‘unmasked’

Kelly Cohen · June 27, 2017 4:17 pm

House Intel Committee Forges Ahead With Unmasking Investigation

Jenna Lifhits · June 27, 2017 8:30 am

National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers, right, and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, told the special counsel's team and Senate investigators last week that President Trump had asked each of them to publicly state his campaign associates did not collude with Russia in the November election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Dan Coats, Mike Rogers say Trump wanted them to say publicly there was no Russia collusion: Report

Anna Giaritelli · June 22, 2017 12:07 pm

The bigger question isn't whether this distinguished professor doesn't understand what her judicial oath requires, but rather whether Feinstein understands, as Nebraska's Sen. Ben Sasse noted, that it is unlawful to impose a religious test on public officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein floats subpoenaing top intelligence officials

Daniel Chaitin · June 10, 2017 2:24 am

If it's true that Winner has been openly discussing the PR angle with family members over monitored phone calls, it suggests she is dimmer than originally estimated. (MICHAEL HOLAHAN/STAFF)

Beltway Confidential

The monumental idiocy of leaker Reality Leigh Winner

Becket Adams · June 9, 2017 6:26 pm

Reality Winner pleaded not guilty in U.S. district court to charges that she illegally retained and transmitted national defense information. (Lincoln County (Ga.) Sheriff's Office via AP)

National Security

Reality Winner wrote ‘I want to burn the White House Down’: Prosecutor

Associated Press · June 9, 2017 2:24 pm

Coats and Rogers both sang the same tune, insisting they had never felt or received pressure to act inappropriately. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

What should we make of Rogers and Coats testimony on potential Trump interference?

Emily Jashinsky · June 7, 2017 6:18 pm

The law authorizing such data collection, known as Section 702, has been among the most controversial of the intelligence community's surveillance powers for years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

NSA chief: Agency collecting more data than ever

Joel Gehrke · June 7, 2017 5:47 pm

All of the four panelists - Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, ODNI Director Dan Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers - gave examples of how the foreign surveillance tools help the national security work they are all tasked with. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Intelligence officials urge Senate to renew expiring surveillance law

Todd Shepherd · June 7, 2017 5:16 pm