Sentences with phrase «own intelligence community»

The U.S. intelligence community's previous assertions that Russia interfered in the election, based on classified evidence never revealed to the public, were easily dismissed by Trump and his allies.

The meeting came as the intelligence community was assessing Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign had colluded with Moscow.

Comey agreed there was no evidence of collusion in a report prepared by the U.S. intelligence community under Clapper, but that's different than saying no such evidence has been discovered.

It's still unclear what (if any) relationship the site and Assange's leaks had with Russia, which the US intelligence community says was behind hacking in the election.

There is a White House driven process that determines whether or not the intelligence community can exploit a cybersecurity flaw in a company's system.

Fusion then compiled the information into a 35 - page dossier that has been circulated among lawmakers, journalists, and the US intelligence community since last year.

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.»

Christopher Woody: The Coast Guard is a military branch but is also a member of the intelligence community.

So the possibility remains, Carle said, that the Russians used the meeting with Kushner to distract the intelligence community and the public from potentially more incriminating relationships between the campaign and Moscow.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

Both letters, only one of which was delivered, congratulated the candidates on their victories and affirmed the intelligence community's commitment to serving the White House.

The memo and its release have sparked a firestorm on Capitol Hill and within the intelligence community.

Leidos Inc. is a Virginia - based technology company that, among other things, provides command - and - control software and planning systems for the military and intelligence community.

«I went on to say that I hoped he would abide by the long - standing principle of the IC always telling «truth to power,»» Clapper said, referring to the intelligence community.

She said Trump decided to declassify the memo after consulting his national security team and members of law enforcement and the intelligence community.

«There is a lot of anger in the FBI (the entire intelligence community, for that matter) over how this president will say nary a negative word about the Russians, but will insult us every chance he gets,» he said.

And multiple sources told NBC News that law enforcement and the Intelligence Community are exploiting a loophole to collect intelligence.

I commented that this was based on what we knew on that morning, was provided to me and my colleagues, and indeed, to Congress, by the intelligence community.

Asked why the Congressman wasn't prepared to accept the intelligence community's assessment that Russia hacked and leaked the DNC emails, Grubbs replied: «Because over time he's learned that the intel community has not been completely reliable and that its «assessment» of the leaks was more of a subjective consensus than hard evidence.»

An OPM spokesperson replied via email: «The law enforcement and intelligence communities are best positioned to give the most fulsome answer to this question.»

He was previously the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, an important component of the U.S. intelligence community.

On October 7, 2016, the US intelligence community released a statement publicly accusing Russia, for the first time, of hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email servers and for interfering with the US election process.

Trump has repeatedly called the Russia probe a «hoax,» and during the transition attacked the intelligence community's warnings about Russian intervention.

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 Intelligence Community Assessment concluded, first, that President Putin directed an influence campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process.

In his testimony on Monday, Clapper added, «The evidence, if there was any, didn't reach the evidentiary bar in terms of the level of confidence that we were striving for in that intelligence community assessment.»

The Washington Post reported on Friday that Trump was easily convinced by his advisers and Republican lawmakers to release the memo, despite the White House's concerns that it would precipitate a showdown between the president and the intelligence community, including the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who has asked the president to prevent the memo's release.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

Trump openly questioned the veracity of the US intelligence community's findings for weeks before conceding that Russia indeed meddled in the election.

Trump Slams the Intelligence Community and the Media over Michael Flynn and Russia Revelations

Schiff said the Obama administration should have acted more forcefully in responding to alleged Russian election interference when first made aware of the intelligence community's assessment prior to the November 2016 vote.

Trump is not known to have communicated with WikiLeaks, an organization the US intelligence community believes to be a tool of the Russian government.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as «fake news,» a «hoax» and a «witch hunt.»

The U.S. intelligence community has In - Q - Tel.

Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

And one oddly secretive company wasn't pleased to see its bills detailing the fact that 90 % of its calls went to Iran and Nicaragua, two countries that had little in common other than that they were of great interest to the American intelligence community.

But the two moments, however light - hearted, will probably be taken very seriously by the US intelligence community.

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Priebus alluded to his contacts with the FBI over the weekend, telling Fox News that «the top levels of the intelligence community» have assured him that the allegations of campaign contacts with Russia were «not only grossly overstated, but also wrong.»

CSRA is an information technology service provider that works with in the public sector with clients like the US federal government and the intelligence community.

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This was arguably part of the reason that the US law enforcement and intelligence community had missed so many warning signs of the coming 9/11 attacks.

Among other things, the Democratic memo accuses Nunes of cherry - picking information to misrepresent the intelligence community's work and discredit the FBI's investigation into Russia's election interference.

Neither the White House nor the US intelligence community can legally surveil US persons without cause.

Other investors include Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, and In - Q - Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

The intelligence community's announcement in January 2017 that its assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of elevating Trump to the presidency «was ineffective.»

That question is at the crux of the Russia probe at large, because it hits at the primary concern of the US intelligence community.

While the US intelligence community's judgments of Russia's meddling followed protocol, those of Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions «did not employ proper analytic tradecraft.»

The report also faults the US intelligence community and the Obama administration for their handling of the Russia investigation and attempts by Russia to interfere in the election.