Sentences with phrase «senior intelligence officials»

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.

When a cybersecurity incident unfolds, we leverage the knowledge of senior intelligence officials with vast experience in privacy and data security matters.

The candidate reportedly plans to bring top advisers Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former senior intelligence official and big - time Trump booster, to his FBI briefing.

The Fisa court's oversight role has been referenced many times by Barack Obama and senior intelligence officials as they have sought to reassure the public about surveillance, but the procedures approved by the court have never before been publicly disclosed.

On October 15, the task force was reportedly granted a warrant by a judge in the FISA court — named after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — to intercept the electronic records from two Russian banks that may have been implicated in the money transfer, a senior intelligence official told the BBC.

But a senior intelligence official told NBC News, in his opinion, the message ultimately sent to the Kremlin was «muddled.»

A senior intelligence official told us that the U.S., working with the UN, the OPCW and other international partners, has intelligence indicating that more than 10 of Assad's suspected chemical weapons sites had not been disclosed.

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top - secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

So too are some senior intelligence officials.