Intelligence

The thin line between "media" and "information operations" is rapidly disintegrating.

Initial reports stated that President Donald Trump did not learn about the bounties offered until this year.

The president denied he was aware of a Russian military intelligence arm that was secretly paying bounties to Taliban-linked militias to kill Americans, British and other coalition forces in Afghanistan.

"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General," Trump wrote Friday. "That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General."

Trump has ordered a significant increase in counter-narcotics and border control operations, which could draw the armed forces into another resource drain and a controversial mission.

William McRaven made an impassioned defense of former Director of National Intelligence, the country's chief spy, Joseph Maguire, who the admiral said he knew for more than four decades.

The Department of Justice is allegedly seeking proof that intelligence agencies during the Obama administration were purposely deceptive about information concerning Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In a Friday interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, President Donald Trump said the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq may have been one of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani potential targets for attack.

Valerie Plame noted that Trump's justification for Soleimani's killing rests on the same intelligence community that he has attacked in the past.

Congressman Seth Moulton told MSNBC's Katy Tur Wednesday that information received during a congressional intelligence briefing was conflicting and "quite vague."

James Clapper urged Americans to be skeptical of the administration's explanation, reminding them of the intelligence failures that allowed the Iraq War.

Traditionally, scientists thought Australopithecus' larger brain size meant it was smarter than modern great apes, but new research suggests that assumption is wrong.

The news comes as public trust in the federal government has declined to historically-low levels among members of both parties.

Neal Katyal suggested that the White House and Department of Justice are "contorting themselves backwards to try to hide this."

Profiles need to be built, terrorist groups need to be infiltrated, and operations need to be neutralized. But first, we must learn from our mistakes.

Kim Jong Nam was assassinated with a nerve agent in February 2017, reportedly after having met with his CIA contact in Malaysia.

"At the end of the day, history is going to find that [Barr] was compliant, he was timid, and at times he was a sycophant. All to please Trump," said former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi.

Defense Department documents obtained by Newsweek show U.S. Northern Command sent an urgent request for additional U.S. forces.

"I hope that the Iranian people demand better leadership, but we'll have to wait and see," the senator told Fox News.

Not everyone was so sure that the supposed threat from Iran warrants America's military response.

Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, warned the U.S. against repeating the mistakes of the Iraq War.

The report does suggest that violence from Mexican cartels against Defense Department personnel working on the southwest border could increase.

As people across the globe mourn, questions have been raised about whether the attack could have been prevented with better intelligence sharing and online surveillance.

Donald Trump previously said that Kim Jong Un "wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. We fell in love."

The suspect made "bizarre statements about giving away his child on Facebook," an arrest affidavit said.

"There ain't no learning in the second kick of the mule here," said a former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.

"I didn't see the report from the intelligence," Trump said referring to the Worldwide Threat Assessment report.

Trump, John Brennan said, "should be ashamed of himself" over the comments, "but I know he knows no shame."

A recently arrived alien intelligence is all around us, but don't run for the hills just yet—for all its smarts, it's actually pretty dumb.

Two independent studies demonstrated how Russian operatives used a wide range of social media tools to promote Donald Trump's candidacy.