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Trump Tells Generals That America Is Losing War In Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war’s top military commander during a tense meeting at the White House, according to senior administration officials. During the July 19 meeting, Trump repeatedly suggested that Defense Secretary James […]

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FBI Arrests Woman For Leaking NSA Report On Russian Hacking

WASHINGTON ―  A government contractor in Georgia was arrested this weekend after a classified National Security Agency report was leaked on an alleged cyberattack attempt by Russian military intelligence officers on a voting software company and local election officials. Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old federal contractor for Pluribus International Corp. who had a top secret security […]

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CIA Says WikiLeaks Is A Hostile Intelligence Service

CIA Director Mike Pompeo blistered WikiLeaks in a speech Thursday, calling WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service” aided by Russia and accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making “common cause with dictators.” The former Kansas congressman was speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., his first public address since becoming director. […]

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Trump Adds Bannon To Security Council Over Joint Chiefs Of Staff

In one of three executive actions Saturday, President Trump reshuffled the National Security Council to include his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and limited the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The memorandum makes the chief strategist a regular attendee of the principals committee, the Cabinet-level interagency forum that deals […]

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Trump Accuses CIA Chief Of Leaking Fake News

In an extraordinary escalation of tensions between the president-elect and his intelligence agencies, Donald Trump suggested in a tweet Sunday that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have leaked information about the existence of an unsubstantiated report that Russia allegedly has compromising information on Trump. “Was this the leaker of fake news?” Trump asked following […]