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New polling aims to shed light on Americans’ perceptions of the intelligence community and to test the claim that efforts by these agencies to be more open will enhance their popular support.
At its heart, intelligence collection is a simple—yet fragile—process. And President Trump's recent actions will make it much more difficult for U.S. intelligence officers to develop and recruit new sources in the future.
What happens when the outing of intelligence sources is the province not of rogue insiders but of senior officials in two branches of this country’s government?
Lawmakers have proposed reforms to how Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies share information with one another. But unless information-sharing is mandatory, broader reforms will be squandered.
Gina Haspel will testify before the Senate intelligence committee beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
How to approach the prospective CIA director’s role in the controversial rendition, detention and interrogation program.
On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its 2017 transparency report. The full report is below:
The committee majority’s report adds little new substantive information updating the narrative of what happened surrounding Russian interference in the election.
The director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts released the following report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s activities during 2017. The report states that the FISC received 1,614 applications—granting 1,147, modfying 391 in part, denying 50 in part, and denying 26 in full.
Analysis of newly disclosed documents undergirding the international intelligence sharing arrangement between the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, otherwise known as the Five Eyes alliance.