A declassified assessment contradicts the president's assertion that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction."
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
The Agency depicts the cruelty and dehumanization involved in espionage work.
The Trump administration’s spectacle rehashed information that journalists, lawyers, and victims had already unveiled.
One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.
In a post–2024 election conversation, Gurri discussed his vote for Donald Trump and why he is cautiously optimistic about the next four years.
Former CIA analyst Martin Gurri discusses Donald Trump’s political arc, the rise of populism, and the incoming chaos and transformation we cannot foresee.
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
Michiganders had to choose between a hawkish Democrat with an intelligence background and a hawkish Republican with an intelligence background for Senate.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
War on Terror fears and the CIA’s torture program kept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of civilian courts—and prevented true justice from being served.
The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
The political commentary in Netflix's sci-fi comedy isn't exactly subtle.
A divided board recommends reforms as Congress debates renewing snooping authority.
The director worries that the public doesn't trust his spy agency.
All of this is a transparent effort to stop lawsuits from those who have been tortured.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, prepare for the many, many looks back.
Three reasons to be skeptical about Evan McMullin's latest political initiative.
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
Samuel Cummings built a global weapons empire in Washington, D.C.'s shadow.
Adopting "counterinsurgency" tactics for use against wide swaths of Americans can only make the situation worse.
His rumored candidate for CIA director, Michael Morell, is raising alarms.
New documentary explains why installing the shah in 1953 led to ruinous American covert operations throughout the Cold War and beyond.
The very idea that our intelligence agencies could keep encryption bypasses secret is absurd.
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
Amazon Prime's new show attempts to dramatize the "enhanced interrogations" that took place under President George W. Bush as well as the Obama administration's failure to hold anybody to account.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
The CIA and its defenders insisted that torture would help keep America safe. They were wrong.
A judge rules whistleblower’s failure to subject Permanent Record to pre-publication review violates non-disclosure agreement.
Plus: Trump slashes number of refugees allowed in next year, big cities are shedding millennials, and more...
Snowden didn’t subject his autobiography Permanent Record to pre-publication review by the federal government that’s also trying to throw him in prison.
A new movie, The Report, documents the Senate struggle to inform the public about our wartime waterboarding and "enhanced interrogations."
The Mueller report is a timely reminder not to take John Brennan and James Clapper seriously.
This is not the first time generic "yaaassss slay kween" feminism has been used to obscure an awful person's record.
What a conspiracy theorist, a Vietnam War deserter, and a Trump adviser have in common
What could go wrong with federalizing the corporate charter process and putting bureaucrats in charge of long-term business thinking?
Brennan was awful and defended the indefensible, but Trump is clearly trying to silence critics.
This will have potentially serious consequences for those investigating election meddling.
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