Before assuming the presidency, Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered the Russian hacking campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
Sen. John McCain greets Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 3, 2017. McCain was one of several prominent officials to criticize the president following his meeting with Vladimir Putin. (DoD Photo)
President Trump refused to acknowledge or condemn Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election today, drawing sharp criticism from former intelligence officials and lawmakers stateside.
Former Director of National Intelligence says there were numerous times the U.S. government wanted to go on the offensive after a cyberattack, only to decide against it…
The United States lacks "a good way to respond" to informational warfare that creates fake news and then amplifies it through automated social media bots and armies…
NSA Director Michael Rogers recently authorized the introduction of a specially tailored compensation package for the spy agency’s “high-end” cybersecurity workforce.
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Clapper, shown here at an event in September, said it wasn’t the intelligence community’s place to comment on whether attempting to sway an election amounts to an act of war. (LBJ Library / Flickr)
"They did not change any vote tallies or anything of that sort," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee…
In the aftermath of formally accusing Russia for hacking into the Democratic National Committee, several prominent U.S. officials offered veiled threats to the Kremlin that could be…
While evidence of such a plot remains unclear, the threat of a malicious, precisely tailored, online misinformation campaign is being taken seriously at the “highest levels” of…
