Intelligence activities

U.S. law provides the congressional Intelligence Committees with tools to evaluate covert action programs and spur potential legislative action.

How the Trump administration could weaponize the Espionage Act and its chilling effect to control the press and justify suppression.

Director of National Intelligence Gabbard is dismantling the last government unit tracking and analyzing State-sponsored interference in U.S. institutions, elections, and society.

Mary McCord and Zachary Myers join David Aaron to discuss search warrants executed last week at former National Security Advisor John Bolton's office and residence.

AI is a transformative force, poised to revolutionize how intelligence is collected, analyzed, and operationalized.

The White House's future BDA briefings on the Iran strikes will likely project certainty where analysis still urges caution.

Why did Israel, and then the United States, decide to attack Iran now, even as U.S.-Iranian negotiations sputtered along?

In a system where assessments are filtered to support policy, the next intelligence failure will not be a surprise, but a choice.

How should we understand evolving terrorism, and what’s needed for better threat assessment? Julia Ebner discussed this with expert Katherine Keneally.

U.S. policymakers must adopt a comprehensive strategy to counter China's "shadow fleet" and enhance Taiwan's undersea cable security.

The Dutch Cabinet's release of a list of commitments on mitigating civilian harm is a major step forward for transparency.

The Hasbajrami decision’s expansive view of the FISA foreign intelligence exception threatens to swallow the rule that the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to U.S.…