Tulsi Gabbard faced an uphill fight to be confirmed as director of national intelligence. Even some conservatives in Congress viewed her with trepidation. But far from reacting in fear, conservatives ...

Just over a week ago, the question facing the American “intelligence community” — all of the assorted spies and spooks at 18 different agencies — ran roughly as follows: Are things so bad that they ...

Can the intelligence community come to grips with the myths that it has created about itself? The Trump administration seeks to hold the US intelligence community accountable for its part in a ...

The US intelligence community’s warrantless surveillance powers expired Friday night, one day after House lawmakers – including 19 Republicans – rejected a short-term extension of the program. The ...

As a long-time China scholar, and as I watch the early days of the Trump presidency, I cannot help but be reminded of the Chinese Communist Party’s assertion in the 1970s that everything Mao said or ...

The National Intelligence Council bridges the intelligence and policy communities to provide policymakers with intelligence assessments. It famously produces National Intelligence Estimates and makes ...

The CIA was created by Congress in 1947 in response to the lack of inter-agency communication before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. “As assessments grounded in fact are being shelved in favor of ...

Debate within the intelligence community over the origins of COVID-19 ran much deeper than previously known, particularly within the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. The origins of SARS-CoV-2 ...