By Natasha Bertrand

The July 13 letter included a classified addendum that raised concerns about a Senate investigation being led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) serving as a vehicle for laundering a foreign influence campaign to damage Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The full House and Senate were briefed in the last week […]

The Rotenbergs, who made a fortune through contracts related to the Sochi Olympics, were sanctioned and had their U.S. assets frozen in March 2014 as part of the Obama administration’s decision to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and his close associates over Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Arkady Rotenberg was later […]

Kent was recently promoted to a new rank in the Senior Foreign Service, and is one of the few impeachment witnesses who was not purged from government following his impeachment testimony. He told lawmakers in closed and open sessions late last year that Trump’s then-personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani conducted a […]

“Is this someone who reads? Someone who likes a story? Operates on visuals?” Sanner said. “You figure out before you go in what that person needs from you.” Sanner’s comments offered a window into how she approaches briefings with the president, as questions swirl about why Trump—who is not known […]

A senior DHS official forwarded the assessment to security stakeholders on Friday, noting that “while it identifies Washington D.C. as an attractive target, the boogaloo ideology is not restricted to a specific region and those who wish to cause division are routinely using peaceful protests as means of cover. Heading […]

Pompeo ran the CIA from early 2017 until April 2018, when he moved over to run the State Department. As part of his request to the CIA, Lynch asked for “a complete and unredacted list” of Pompeo’s external advisory board members, which the agency has declined to divulge publicly. Former […]

According to a statement posted by Reed’s family on a website they made to draw attention to his case, Reed was initially charged on the night of August 15 with a minor violation of failing to properly register at his Russian girlfriend’s apartment, which Reed admitted to by signing a […]

The advisory board events were orchestrated primarily by two of Pompeo’s closest confidants: his wife Susan and one of his best friends and fellow West Point alum, businessman Brian Bulatao, whom Pompeo tapped as CIA’s chief operations officer in 2017. Bulatao would dictate who was present at the board’s meetings […]

As the committee’s top Democrat, Warner has no power to compel Grenell to comply. It’s not clear whether Republicans will endorse any aspects of Warner’s request, though the Senate intel panel has operated on a more bipartisan basis than its more raucous House counterpart. The incoming chairman, Sen. Marco Rubio […]

He added that “stressors caused by the pandemic may contribute to an individual’s decision to commit an attack or influence their target of choice.” The letter comes two weeks after DHS circulated a memo to law enforcement officials around the country warning that violent extremists’ efforts to exploit the pandemic […]

“As the COVID-19 threat expands throughout the United States, the violent extremist threat will also continue to evolve, potentially increasing in frequency and severity,” the April 23 memo reads. While social distancing measures have made mass gatherings less ubiquitous and therefore more difficult for bad actors to target, “the pandemic […]

“As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security,” the statement reads. “The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or […]