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AP The 'First Woman CIA Director' Is a Smokescreen
Gina Haspel's gender is the least important fact about her.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Devin Nunes's Fake Oversight
The House Intelligence Committee chairman’s actions are toxic to the democratic process and dangerous to American national security.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters The Specter of a Chinese Mole in America
The case of a suspected turncoat couldn’t come at a worse time for the intelligence community.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters New Year's Resolutions Are Predictions About the Future
And humans are very bad at predicting the future.
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Albert Gea / Reuters The Tools of Espionage Are Going Mainstream
Great-power deception is no longer designed just to trick a handful of leaders. It’s designed to trick us all.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Isn't the Only Problem with Trump's Foreign Policy
America’s approach to the world is a complicated mess, for reasons that predate the current president.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters How Not to Threaten North Korea
The country has conducted its sixth nuclear test. Is Donald Trump committing deterrence malpractice?
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Oleg Popov / Reuters The Three Paradoxes Disrupting American Politics
They didn’t start with Trump, and they won’t end with him.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Vindicate the Intelligence Community
Even if the foreign power involved were the Brits and not the Russians, meeting with another government to get opposition dirt for a U.S. presidential election is wrong.
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Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) / Reuters Kim Jong Un: The Hardest Intelligence Target
The most dangerous nuclear threat to the United States requires understanding the intentions of just one man.
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Damien Meyer / Getty The NSA Confronts a Problem of Its Own Making
Recent cyberattacks show what happens when America’s secret-keepers can’t keep their secrets.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters James Comey's 'Shock and Awe' Testimony
By any normal reckoning, the FBI director’s account should have been stunning. But Americans have grown far too used to abnormal behavior.
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Russian Foreign Ministry Photo via the AP How Bad Is Disclosing 'Code Word' Information?
If you’re known as someone who cannot keep a secret, the world’s secret-keepers are not going to tell you much.
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Reuters / Stefan Wermouth A Stolen NSA Tool Is Being Used in a Global Cyberattack
The magnitude of the event shows the danger of insider threats to the U.S. intelligence community.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images The Biggest Intelligence Questions Raised by the Trump Dossier
There are even deeper issues here than whether or not the unsubstantiated allegations are true.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump vs. the Spies
In defense of the intelligence community
