FBI Director James Comey will be called before lawmakers as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the election and President Trump’s accusation that he had been wiretapped by his predecessor.
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Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.Shane Harris is a senior writer covering intelligence, national security, and cyber security. He is based in Washington, DC. Contact him at [email protected].
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Mike Flynn interacted with a graduate student with dual Russian and British nationalities at a 2014 U.K. security conference, a contact that came to the notice of U.S. intelligence but that Mr. Flynn, then the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, didn’t disclose.
President Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, was paid tens of thousands of dollars by Russian companies shortly before he became a formal adviser to the then-candidate, according to documents obtained by a congressional oversight committee that revealed business interests that hadn’t been previously known.
President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, U.S. officials said, changing the Obama administration’s policy of limiting the spy agency’s paramilitary role and reopening a turf war between the agency and the Pentagon.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he doubts the administration will back up Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him during the 2016 campaign.
Trump administration officials sought to buck up support for House Republican plans to overhaul the Affordable Care Act on Sunday amid vocal dissension within the party about the measure.
Investigators probing who may have provided WikiLeaks with classified information about the Central Intelligence Agency’s purported computer-hacking techniques are zeroing in on a small number of contractors who have worked for the agency and may have been disgruntled over recent job losses.
The FBI is looking into the leak of a trove of hacking tools apparently used by the CIA, and the initial focus is likely to fall on contractors the spy agency hired, according to people familiar with the matter.
WikiLeaks released a massive trove of documents and files it says exposes how the Central Intelligence Agency hacks smartphones, computer operating systems, message applications and internet-connected televisions.
U.S. investigators have examined contacts Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s top intelligence official acknowledged Tuesday that the Russian government had interfered in U.S. elections and said he supported a full investigation into the matter.
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