Ideas
America’s Best Partner in Middle East HUMINT Needs Help
Jordan’s spies set the standard for the boots-on-the-ground intelligence sharing that is crucial to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
Science & Tech
Detecting Secret Military Exercises With Micro Satellites, a How-To
The future of intelligence is small teams and tiny satellites. It’s not a future the U.S. will own exclusively.
Science & Tech
CIA's Cloud is 'Pretty Close' to Invincible, CIO Says
The agency wants to operate more like commercial companies, not the government, CIA CIO John Edwards said.
Science & Tech
The Mysterious Printer Code That May Have Led the FBI to the Alleged NSA Leaker
Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
Policy
Devin Nunes Dives Back into the Russia Investigation
The California Republican supposedly stepped aside from the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation. But on Wednesday, he used his power as chairman to issue subpoenas related to the inquiry.
Science & Tech
US Intel Community Launches Face-ID Contest
Wanted: algorithms that can identify people from security-camera footage.
Science & Tech
Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets.
Science & Tech
Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.
NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.
Ideas
The Government Wants You to Stop the Next Edward Snowden
New rules mean you could lose your security clearance if you don’t Say Something when you See Something.
Ideas
What Happens When Intelligence Agencies Lose Faith in the President?
If bureaucrats restrict the information they share with political leaders, the damage could prove deep and lasting.
Ideas
The Dangers of Presidential Indiscretions
President Trump had the legal right to declassify information—but by sharing sensitive intelligence with the Russians, he may have jeopardized national security.
Ideas
The Terrible Cost of Trump's Disclosures
The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning.
Threats
CIA Opens a New Office To Watch North Korea
The first “mission center” launched since the spy agency’s 2015 reorganization, it is also the most narrowly focused.
Policy
Spy Chief Searching for Cuts Across Entire US Intelligence Community
Trump's new intelligence chief, Dan Coats, says he’s already moving on GOP lawmakers’ request to streamline all 17 agencies, including his own ODNI.
Business
Unprecedented: US Air Force Will Let a Defense Company Pick Its Next Jamming Plane
The latest twist in the Compass Call replacement saga sparks concerns that it cedes an inherent military function to a private firm.
Science & Tech
America's Security Clearance System Is Broken, Former Spy Chief Clapper Says
The problem won't be easy to fix, but it could benefit from better employee monitoring and 'some very aggressive creative and sensitive education.'
Policy
Remember When Mike Pompeo Loved Wikileaks?
Now the head of the CIA wants to get tough on the “non-state hostile intelligence service.” That won’t be so easy.
Threats
The Steady Rise of Digital Border Searches
At the current rate, customs agents are on track to increase inspections of travelers’ electronic devices by a third this year.
Science & Tech
If You Only Work on Your Malware on Weekdays, You Might Be a CIA Hacker
Analysts at Symantec found a curious pattern in malware alleged to have been developed by the CIA: all the timestamps are Monday through Friday.
Ideas