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The CIA Is Trying to Recruit Russian Spies On Telegram

By Vera Bergengruen

ISIS Fighters Are Gaining Strength After Trump's Syria Pullout, U.S. Spies Say

By W.J. Hennigan and John Walcott

Trump Ignored U.S. Intelligence Report on Ukraine

By John Walcott

Warning on Trump’s Pick for Top Spy

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The Danger in Prosecuting Assange

To understand why so many media and legal observers are voicing concern about the Julian Assange indictment, it helps to perform the following mental exercise.If you were to click on this link to the WikiLeaks...

By Massimo Calabresi and W.J. Hennigan

The Intelligence Strategy Behind Russia's Outreach

At 448 pages, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election feels definitive, but it’s hardly the final word on the subject. In fact, a recent court filing in a related...

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The 2020 Campaigns Are Still Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

Most Americans aren’t yet paying a lot of attention to the 2020 presidential campaign. The same can’t be said for Russian spies.Aides and advisers to the vast field of Democratic hopefuls are ringing alarm bells,...

By Philip Elliott

Mueller Report Shows Russian Outreach to Trump

In his highly-anticipated, 448-page report released on Thursday, special counsel Robert Mueller laid out in painstaking detail the Trump campaign’s willingness to engage with Russian officials on a wide range of politically sensitive matters.Dozens of...

By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan

Read the Transcript of Andrew McCabe's 60 Minutes Interview

In a "60 Minutes" interview, McCabe recalled discussions about using the 25th Amendment

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Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with...

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Has the U.S. Done Enough to Stop Election Meddling?

The Trump Administration has confidence in its plan

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A Hidden Lesson in the Carter Page Warrant, According to an FBI Historian

Today’s FBI may still have problems, but it is substantively different from the historical FBI in how it conducts national security investigations

By Douglas M. Charles, Pennsylvania State University / The Conversation

How Mariia Butina Allegedly Used Guns, Sex and Billionaires

A woman charged with carrying out a years-long conspiracy to work covertly in the United States as a Russian agent was ordered to remain jailed by a federal magistrate judge ahead of her trial after...

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White House: President Trump Did Not Say Russia Is No Longer Targeting the U.S.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that President Donald Trump did not intend to say that Russia is no longer targeting the United States during a Cabinet meeting earlier Wednesday.During a meeting with his...

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Here's Who Found That Russia Meddled in the 2016 Election

When President Donald Trump appeared to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian meddling in the 2016 election Monday, he wasn’t just breaking with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.He was also disagreeing with U.S. intelligence...

By Abby Vesoulis and Abigail Simon

Will Trump Challenge Putin?

Sunday morning was bustling at the Market Square in Helsinki. Orange tents dotted the harbor looking out to the Baltic Sea as local merchants sold vibrantly colored fruits, carved wooden trinkets and reindeer pelts in...

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Russians Charged in 2016 Hacking

The Justice Department charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and state election systems, as part of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016...

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Inspector General's Report Criticizes James Comey

A Department of Justice report found that former FBI Director James Comey and other top officials did not follow standard procedures in their handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, but did not...

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Here's Why Donald Trump Is Criticizing Former CIA Director John Brennan

President Donald Trump harshly criticized former CIA director John Brennan in a series of tweets quoting a guest on “Fox & Friends” just hours before he swore in the agency’s new director.Over the course of...

By Maya Rhodan

CIA Nominee Gina Haspel Will Face Tough Questions on Torture

Ever since President Donald Trump tapped Gina Haspel as his choice to lead the CIA nearly two months ago, a fierce debate has engulfed Washington over her suitability to run the agency. Haspel, a 33-year...

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