Tag: US Intelligence Community

What’s a Threat? Gabbard Says It’s Up to Trump, on Iran and Elsewhere.

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DIR. GABBARD: “Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the President ––”

SEN. OSSOFF: “False.”

Sen. Ossoff Presses Director of National Intelligence on Imminent Threat Posed by Iran, Fulton County Raid

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What’s a Threat? Gabbard Says It’s Up to Trump, on Iran and Elsewhere.

In fact, while the president has broad authority to interpret intelligence any way he deems proper, Mr. Ossoff was right: At the National Intelligence University, which trains the intelligence agencies’ future leaders, there is a large body of literature about the art and science of providing warning (although Ms. Gabbard has ordered the university merged with another government school).

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents

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Poroshenko: ‘Donbas children will sit in cellars, ours’ will go to school’

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.

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In Pentagon shakeup, some see bid for more secret actions, less oversight

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The selection of John Daniel Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may signal a new emphasis on irregular warfare, covert and clandestine operations, enabling swifter action with fewer legal constraints and less congressional scrutiny, say former military and senior defense officials who have worked in the intelligence community, special operations, the Defense Department, and the White House.

In Pentagon shakeup, some see bid for more secret actions, less oversight