Sentences with phrase «director of national intelligence»

In August and September, Johnson and other security officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, became «increasingly convinced» that Russia had perpetrated the election process by hacking the DNC and other political figures.

Security experts, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, worry that CRISPR makes things easier for would - be bioterrorists.

«We are taking a stand,» Sessions said Friday at a news conference alongside Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

In the fall, U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper told an audience at the University of Texas in Austin that Russia posed a bigger cyber threat than China.

All the blogs and papers are worked up about a paragraph in the report by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to the Senate Armed Services Committee where he expresses concern that your Nest thermostat might pose both a security risk and an intelligence opportunity.

Trump is expected to choose as director of national intelligence two - time Sen. Dan Coats, a former ambassador to Germany, secret foodie and lover of all things Indiana who also served as a member of his chamber's Intelligence Committee.

In a last minute PR scramble in recent weeks — as the ECJ decision loomed — both the U.S. mission in Europe and Robert Litt, the general counsel from the office of US director of national intelligence, have been attempting to argue that U.S. intelligence operates «targeted» not mass surveillance, despite the dragnet approached detailed in the Snowden documents.

«Acting independently, neither the U.S. government nor the private sector can fully control or protect the country's information infrastructure,» Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday.

Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state actor» rather than a particular government group carried out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O'Sullivan, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Cathy Novelli and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Toria Nuland have told colleagues they are stepping down, the sources said.

On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign launched «Together for America,» an initiative to recruit GOP endorsements, and announced support from nearly 50 Republicans, including George W. Bush's former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

In May, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told a Senate committee the global threat of electronic warfare attacks against space systems would rise in coming years.

Later in the day, Pence will join Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to tour the National Counterterrorism Center and participate in a series of briefings.

«The massive theft of American IP... threatens our nation's security as well as vitality,» said former Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair, co-chair of the commission, in a press release.

He questioned why Congress didn't initially challenge Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's testimony about NSA spying, which Snowden called «a lie.»

It's a far rosier picture than what Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats had painted for Congress just a few days earlier.

Former Sen. Dan Coats, R - Ind., has been nominated by President Trump to be the next director of national intelligence and oversee the U.S. intelligence community.

CORNISH: That's national security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly reporting on today's confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence nominee Dan Coats.

The Court Standing to Challenge US Wiretapping Law Denied: Clapper, Director of National Intelligence et al v Amnesty International USA et al On 26 February 2013, the United States Supreme Court (USSC)-LRB-(568 US)(2013)-RRB- upheld the federal law that enables the government to perform surveillance on Americans» phone and email communications with people outside the United States.

Then - FBI Director James Comey and his successor, Christopher Wray, along with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, have pleaded with members of Congress not to get caught up in conflating terms and stories about surveillance.

Snowden also took advantage of the NSA's culture of personal trust as described by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper during a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In 2014, the US Director of National Intelligence himself, James Clapper, admitted they had underestimated IS and overestimated the Iraqi Army.

In recent weeks, Mueller's team has interviewed a number of senior officials, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as Comey, officials said.

A separate statement by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed the review.

Trump hurled fresh insults at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, calling him a «lying machine,» as he kept tabs on his favorite news show Saturday morning.

The Facts: Trump leaves out an important nuance in this tweet about the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper.

The task force included the FBI, the Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper speaks about threats to the US during the Defense One annual Summit November 2, 2015 in Washington, DC.

The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, released a statement last Wednesday reiterating that, while the intelligence community had «not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, «part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.»

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in a recent awareness campaign, advised some more drastic steps, including leaving devices at home and even considering carrying a burner phone, which doesn't contain personal data or secure information.

«There will be no analytic access to the collected metadata after this time,» the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a statement.

The NSA responded to Fortune's request for comment about the transition with links to an official statement and fact sheet from the Offices of the Director of National Intelligence.

Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, had also cautioned the chief of staff against releasing the document.

Mueller's team of FBI agents and prosecutors has already interviewed people who could provide firsthand knowledge of possible obstruction of justice, including Comey, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers.

Although that remains unconfirmed, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others have implicated the country.

In a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing on Tuesday, the heads of the CIA, FBI, and NSA, the director of national intelligence, and others, expressed concern that the devices could be used as conduits for spying.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

The transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Amidst continued outrage over an expansive NSA surveillance program called PRISM — first reported by The Guardian and The Washington Post — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has responded with an official «fact sheet» of what the program actually is.

Charles Sowell, who previously worked as a senior administrator in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and was targeted by Fancy Bear two years ago, said there was no reason the FBI couldn't do the same work the AP did.

In other words, Dokuchayev appears to be one of the main sources for the information on which joint U.S. agencies, in a report released by the director of national intelligence in January, argued that the Russian state had directed a campaign designed to polarize public opinion and broadly discredit the campaign of Hillary Clinton.

«I think it's pretty clear that Mike Pompeo is on the same page, philosophically, with President Trump,» former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said to CNN on Tuesday.

As one of the last major actions of the Obama Administration, the Director of National Intelligence released a 25 - page report just two weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration.

About a month before Election Day, the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that they believed Russia was involved with WikiLeaks» publication of private emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

As part of testimony submitted to the Senate's Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, wrote, «In the future, intelligence services might use the (Internet of things) for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials.»

Susan Gordon, principal deputy director in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, speak with CNBC's Eamon Javers about the evolution of cyber threats, the Las Vegas mass shooting, and the Russian meddling in the U. S. election.