With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
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The US dramatically changed how it shares intelligence in the period before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
National security professionals and armchair sleuths alike are taking advantage of vast amounts of publicly available information and software tools to monitor geopolitical events around the world.
Investigations of the 9/11 attacks show that a short, unstable transition between two presidents can weaken US security. Trump’s sweeping staff changes compound the risk, experts say.
Tensions have emerged before over US-UK intelligence sharing, but the Johnson government’s decision over Huawei is different.
The US government wants to seize all the proceeds from Snowden’s new memoir.
Intelligence officials in many countries are concerned the company could be helping the Chinese government spy on companies, military units and government agencies.
US intelligence assessments have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to some degree. Trump prefers the Russian version of events.
In the hands of a legitimate president, the recent indictments against Russian nationals for interfering in the 2016 presidential election would have been a powerful tool at a summit. Not Donald Trump.
Gina Haspel is in hot water over the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’. And in decades past, the US imprisoned people for using the same methods.
No probable cause, no public records – this is not a typical criminal court.
Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
A professor who once held top secret clearance explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.
Was the London attacker acting alone? Was he really a soldier of the Islamic State? Research on the nature of jihadism in the West reveals possible answers.
The absence of any evidence to support Donald Trump’s claims is more than just about the president’s credibility – it goes to whether we can trust any information from the White House.
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations, The Open University
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Director, McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, Auburn University
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Deputy Director, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, Auburn University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster
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Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford
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Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University
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Research Director of the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Professor of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach
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Associate Professor of History, Penn State
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Languages and Linguistics and Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
