Sentences with phrase «intelligence officials»

Top intelligence officials were also left largely in the dark.
Joseph DeTrani, a former senior U.S. intelligence official who has served as a special envoy in negotiations with Pyongyang, said that North Korea has historically been truthful when making statements about its involvement in attacks.
Sources have told the Guardian that US intelligence officials believe Russian personnel were at al - Shayrat airbase when sarin was loaded on to a Syrian jet.
The more aggressive tactics of the past two years, two senior intelligence officials told NBC News, were sparked by a string of domestic incidents in 2015 and 2016 in which the watch list system and the FBI failed to stop American citizens from conducting attacks.
Two former top intelligence officials said Trump is getting «played» by Russian President Vladimir Putin with his denials of interference in the 2016 election.
According to those reports, top intelligence officials told Trump and Obama about an unsubstantiated report claiming Russia had compromising personal and financial information about him.
«It's a small number where it has been kinetic, but it is happening,» another source, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the program, told BuzzFeed.
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
Jan. 6, 2017: Comey is among a group of four top U.S. intelligence officials who brief the president - elect on their conclusions that Russia meddled in the presidential election on his behalf.
Russia is already meddling in the midterm elections this year, the top American intelligence officials said, warning that Moscow is using a digital strategy to worsen the country's political and social divisions.
When a cybersecurity incident unfolds, we leverage the knowledge of senior intelligence officials with vast experience in privacy and data security matters.
Following a meeting between South Korean and North Korean intelligence officials in Pyongyang, South Korea delivered a message to the US from Kim: He would like to meet with Trump.
Before the Americans were negotiating with the Russian, they were dealing with a hacker in Vienna known only to American intelligence officials as Carlo.
And Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, communicated with a self - described hacker, Guccifer 2.0, in August 2016 who US intelligence officials believe was a Russian prop.
In talks with Kislyak in December, Kushner floated the possibility of setting up a secure line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russia — and having those talks take place in Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, essentially concealing their interactions from US government scrutiny, The Post wrote, citing US intelligence officials briefed on the matter.
Lawmakers have urged targeted financial sanctions against Pakistani intelligence officials linked to militants, and for Pakistan to lose its «non-NATO ally» status that offers preferential access to U.S. military technology.
Clinton met with intelligence officials for a two - hour security briefing Saturday morning, her first since winning the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hillary Clinton mentioned the hack of the Democratic National Committee's servers, citing intelligence officials» «high confidence» that Russia was involved.
While it may appear Canadian intelligence officials met with executives to share the spoils of their snooping, John Adams, who was head of CSEC until early 2012, says that wouldn't be allowed.
South Korean intelligence officials have accused state - sponsored North Korean hackers have stolen cryptocurrency worth billions of won.
The former director of the program, a military intelligence official named Luis Elizondo, resigned in October and shared previously classified videos of fighter jet pilots sighting UFOs.
On Friday, the Department of Justice indicted 13 Russian nationals on a number of charges for alleged involvement with an 80 - person - plus troll farm called the Internet Research Agency, which tried to flood US social media with disinformation and propaganda in what intelligence officials said looked a lot like an effort to help Trump's campaign.
In March, Trump asked top intelligence officials at the NSA and the director of National Intelligence to declare publicly there was no collusion by Russians agents in the 2016 presidential campaign, which they both refused to do.
Two former senior US intelligence officials claim that evidence, if any, of Russian interference in the US elections last year would still be available in NSA databases.
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said new intelligence reports show some conversations involving members of Trump's transition team were collected by intelligence officials, but said those conversations appeared to be collected «legally» in the course of «normal, foreign surveillance.»
And because its makers never met a Soviet stereotype they didn't love and decide to immediately shoehorn into the screenplay, Lawrence's Dominika is a prima ballerina whose uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts), a high - ranking intelligence official, coerces her into espionage.
Formulated quality and quantitative briefings to law enforcement and intelligence officials based on research and analysis findings.
«There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,» said Mr. Coats, testifying alongside Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director; Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director; and other leading intelligence officials.
On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.
An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al - Baghdadi was hit during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq's western Anbar province.
The British government will stop sharing information with the U.S. after intelligence officials cast blame on American agencies for leaking details of the Manchester bombing to The New York Times.
State - level intelligence officials pretended to be villagers and appeared at Greenpeace meetings in Budher to learn their tactics.
The unilateral statement issued by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, initially caught some defense, military, and intelligence officials off guard, NBC News and BuzzFeed reported late Monday, and struck many as President Donald Trump's attempt to draw a red line for US military intervention in Syria — something he had criticized President Barack Obama for doing in the past.
May's move to expel 23 «undeclared intelligence officials» was followed by similar measures from Moscow, including the closure of Britain's cultural centre in St Petersburg.
• An 18 - page presidential memo shows Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.
«As an American citizen,» Conway added, «we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press» this report, as Meyers reminded her that the press was reporting Trump being briefed about the issue.
Snowden downloaded up to 1.5 million files, according to national intelligence officials, before jetting from Hawaii to Hong Kong to meet with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.
Earlier this week, an analysis from US intelligence officials revealed that North Korea has figured out how to fit nuclear warheads on missiles, and that the country may have up to 60 nuclear weapons.
Since Hersh's story was published, NBC News and AFP reported similar accounts of a Pakistani intelligence official helping the US locate bin Laden.
According to BuzzFeed, U.S. intelligence officials agree with the assessment by an independent group called PropOrNot that Russia was behind some proportion of the false headlines that flourished on Facebook through the summer and fall.
Kim is an incredibly secretive leader — he even travels with his own toilet to prevent his health being analyzed through his excrements — which means intelligence officials rely on any and all clues to understand how he thinks and operates.
Initially, US intelligence officials hypothesized that either the Cuban government or some other foreign regime — possibly with Cuban participation — had created a new kind of Long - range Acoustic Device, or L - Rad, enabling them to somehow focus and direct powerful sonic waves of the sort that are used by police agencies to disperse crowds, or by cargo ships to drive away pirates.
Jared Kushner, Trump's son - in - law and senior adviser, became a subject of the investigation after US intelligence officials intercepted communications suggesting he had proposed setting up a secret backchannel to Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities on US soil.
Top U.S. security and intelligence officials recently met with top Internet and social media executives in Silicon Valley to discuss the problem of online terror recruitment.
But in our interview, Baquet did say there were a few instances while he was managing editor in which he regretted holding back details from the public due to ominous warnings from intelligence officials over potential consequences.
Last week, the New York Times published an article using four current and former anonymous intelligence officials to suggest that George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign volunteer, was a «driving factor» who triggered the FBI's spying on the Trump campaign.
The report faults intelligence officials during the Obama administration for not telling the Trump campaign that some of its members were «potential counterintelligence concerns.»
Until military strategists, policymakers and intelligence officials understand the cost drivers for cyber weapons, they will not have any basis to claim whether cyber tools are getting cheaper or who can access them.
The Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported the case could not be heard until then because a senior British intelligence official is otherwise engaged and can not give evidence earlier.
Commissioner Ray Kelly's top intelligence official handed in his resignation this month, part of an expected series of changes at the top of the NYPD as Bill Bratton prepares to take the helm in January.

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