An international affairs professor with nearly 30 years of experience in the US intelligence community – including at the CIA and NSA – explains how to evaluate the newly released election documents
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A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
A scholar of intelligence and strategy explains why battle damage assessments are so challenging – and why the process has become politicized.
The truth may be out there, but the public rarely gets to see it.
The US system that classifies and protects secrets has emerged in a curious way since the 20th century.
It’s hard to see how the Trump administration will fix the damage caused by this intelligence blunder.
European nations have some areas of strength in intelligence gathering, but will need to ramp up their efforts to plug the gap left by the US.
During the first Trump administration, intelligence workers at many levels made political judgments about the information they assembled.
The secret transfer of people from one country to another – against their will – carries great public risks.
The director of national intelligence is the president’s principal adviser on intelligence. A former White House intelligence official explains the role and how the person in it serves the nation.
Who is a spy and what does that mean? An expert explains
The US said it shared information about a potential attack weeks before the Crocus City massacre.
Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
The hospital blast site has largely been cleared, Hamas says. But a forensic scientist explains what other evidence independent experts could look to while conducting an investigation.
Israel’s intelligence capacities are considered some of the best in the world – but unlike the US, it does not have a central organization coordinating all intelligence.
NATO gets the headlines, but the Five Eyes alliance is another close connection between key Western powers, and it may expand.
Espionage Act violations come in many different forms and can result in a wide variety of punishments.
A former intelligence official claims the US government has retrieved multiple craft of non-human origin, along with the occupants’ bodies.
The Five Eyes alliance is critical to hunting and detecting foreign cyber actors, but tends to work in secret.
The leaks have revealed much about shortcomings in the way the US intelligence community operates.
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Professor of Practice, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
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