Sentences with phrase «foreign intelligence agency of»

Apart from that there is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[which] is a civilian foreign intelligence agency of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world.

Not exact matches

The affair could have provided potential blackmail fodder to foreign intelligence agencies while raising the possibility of just the kind of security breach Petraeus may now be charged with.

The indictment provided a lengthy list of documents Martin is alleged to have stolen from multiple intelligence agencies starting in August 1996, including 2014 NSA reports detailing intelligence information «regarding foreign cyber issues» that contained targeting information and «foreign cyber intrusion techniques.»

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target «non-US persons» under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.

The release on websites this week of what appears to be top - secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question of whether America's own elite operatives have been hacked and their methods revealed.

«I've said that it's right that we fully support our intelligence agencies in the work they do to keep us safe, while recognising that they must always operate within a framework of legality and accountability,» shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said.

But he indicated that he may have done so, though only a modest scale, when he said that the law allowed «targeted» monitoring of terrorists, criminal networks and hostile foreign intelligence agencies.

These complex covert operations are commonly referred to in intelligence circles as «black ops», «extreme measures» and «wet work» and they are always done in the utmost secrecy and with the full knowledge and sometimes assitance and logistical support of either one or two other friendly and trusted foreign intelligence agencies.

I am not referring to major or cataclysmic events which also had the imprint and involved the input of numerous foreign and domestic intelligence and security agencies like the murder of General Aguiyi - Ironsi in 1966 and the coming to power of Lt. Col. (as he then was) Jack Yakubu Gowon or the murder of General Murtala Mohammed in 1976 and the coming to power of General Olusegun Obasanjo or again the murder of General Sani Abacha and Chief MKO Abiola in 1998 which led to the release from prison and the second coming to power of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

A «hostile state intelligence agency», believed to be China's, is thought to have sought to penetrate the Foreign Office's computer system earlier this week, underlining the extent of the threat faced.

«Some of those promoted to the rank of Two Star Generals (Major Generals) include Brigadier General HO Otiki, Acting Commander Defence Headquarters Garrison, Brigadier General OO Soleye, Acting Director Veteran Affairs, Defence Headquarters, the Acting Provost Marshal, Brigadier General AT Hamman, the Acting Military Secretary, Brigadier General F Yahaya, the Acting General Officers Commanding 3, 7 and 8 Divisions, Brigadier General BA Ahanotu, Brigadier General IM Yusuf and Brigadier General SO Olabanji respectively, Acting Commander Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps Brigadier General JI Unuigbe, Brigadier General AA Jidda, Acting Commander Nigerian Army Corps of Supply and Transport, Acting Chief of Accounts and Budget (Army), Brigadier General JE Jakko, Commandant, Depot Nigerian Army, Brigadier General VO Ezugwu and Brigadier General ACC Agundu, Director, Foreign Liaison, Defence Intelligence Agency, Acting Commander, Headquarters Command Army Records, Brigadier General HE Ayamasaowei and Brigadier General MS Yusuf, Commander Guards Brigade, while late Brigadier General BA Raji, was promoted posthumously.

The President had equally ordered a full scale investigation into the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, over which the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) made a claim, hence suspending the DG, Ambassador Ayo Oke.

President Buhari had with him the Governors of Ogun and Plateau; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Industry, Trade and Investment; the Chairpersons of Senate and House of Representatives committees on international relations; the Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA; the Chief of Defence Staff and Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States.

Also, the President has ordered investigation into the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, over which the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has made a claim.

Here, Vladimir Putin's perpetually dreary home turf is still reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the country's foreign intelligence agency, the S.V.R., is devoted to the use of sexual degradation to create runway - ready human automatons who will help Russia to reinvent its geopolitical identity.

You see, Jim served as the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and so he knows a thing or two about national security and why we should curb our use of foreign oil.

(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or to an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual; [the law enforcement exemption]

«Climate emails hacked by spies — Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert» (The Independent)

Depending on your practice area and clients — and now, your evaluation of smoke signals coming from the Trump transition team — your opponents could include opposing counsel, opposing parties, random hackers, the Chinese government, Russian organized cybercrime gangs, foreign intelligence agencies, or the federal government.

CIC worked with Public Safety Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and consulted with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Industry Canada to develop the list of countries and territory whose nationals would be subject to biometric screening.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreiIntelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreiintelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

He also concluded that Canadian officials had shared unfounded, unverified and inaccurate information with foreign intelligence agencies, setting off the chain of events that ended with him being tortured in a Syrian jail cell.

To Federal and foreign government intelligence or counterterrorism agencies or components when DHS becomes aware of an indication of a threat or potential threat to national or international security, or when such use is to conduct national intelligence and security investigations or assist in anti-terrorism efforts.

Beyond extending the sunset date, Burr's draft would allow intelligence agencies to resume spying on communications that make mention of a specific foreign target, widening the scope of surveillance well beyond current interpretations of the law that allow only for intercepting communications sent to or from a named target.

IMSI catchers in the hands of criminals, corporate spies, and foreign intelligence agencies have the potential for massive privacy invasions that make us all less safe.