Jay Clayton Chosen to Lead U.S. Intelligence Amid Senate Standoff Over Spy Powers
President Donald Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and former Securities and Exchange Commission chair, to become the next director of national intelligence, putting a politically moderate but intelligence-inexperienced lawyer at the top of the U.S. spy apparatus during a heated battle over surveillance powers and national security leadership. Trump […]
Ukraine war: US intelligence ‘leaning towards’ Russia being behind Nova Kakhovka dam attack
US intelligence is “leaning towards” Moscow being behind the attack on a dam in a Russian-controlled part of southern Ukraine, NBC News reports. The Biden administration is working to declassify some of its intelligence and share it – with a motive still being assessed, NBC adds. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the bursting of the […]
The spy balloon is part of a broader Chinese military surveillance operation, US intelligence sources say
US intelligence officials believe the recently recovered spy balloon is part of an extensive surveillance program run by the Chinese military, according to several US officials familiar with the intelligence. The surveillance program, which includes several similar balloons, runs in part in the small Chinese province of Hainan, officials told CNN. The United States does […]
