“The Justice Department has removed the career Miami federal prosecutor leading the investigation into John Brennan, after she resisted pressure to quickly bring charges against the former CIA director and prominent critic of President Donald Trump.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/p...
House agrees to 10-day extension of contentious surveillance law after GOP leaders’ push for more collapses www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/p...
Gabbard sends criminal referral to Justice Department related to a whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s 2019 impeachment: www.cnn.com/2026/04/15/p...
Two Americans sentenced to years in prison for role in IT worker scheme that generated $5 million for the North Korean regime ... Justice Department clawed back a fraction of the fraudulent revenue: www.cnn.com/2026/04/15/p...
New —> A chronicle of the record-breaking deployment of the USS Gerald Ford, the world’s biggest aircraft carrier, which is at the center of Trump’s interventionist foreign policy. Interviews w/ a Ford family member, a rep of a Labrador retriever onboard: www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/p...
Inside the scramble to renew the powerful Section 702 intelligence law: CIA taking leading role in lobbying, Trump looms large over negotiations on the Hill: www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/p...
New —> A chronicle of the record-breaking deployment of the USS Gerald Ford, the world’s biggest aircraft carrier, which is at the center of Trump’s interventionist foreign policy. Interviews w/ a Ford family member, a rep of a Labrador retriever onboard: www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/p...
Those safety systems appear to be working as they should at the affected oil, gas and water sites, per sources familiar with the investigation. Safe shutdowns, switch to manual operations.
The hacking campaign marked an escalation of the cyberattacks launched by Tehran since the US-Israeli war with Iran began because it tested the safety systems at US industrial plants that protect human life.”
Iran-linked hackers disrupt multiple US industrial sites, including oil and gas sites: www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/p...
Anthropic is giving access to its new AI model to major tech firms, and not the public, in a bid to slow the arms race ignited by AI in the hands of hackers: www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/t...
To try to clear his name, an ex-CIA officer goes on the record about his career trying to get Iranian nuclear scientists to defect. The ex-officer’s intel was briefed to presidents & led to the Stuxnet-enabled destruction of centrifuges @ Natanz, per this story: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The intelligence community's annual threat assessment doesn't mention threats to US elections for the first time since Russia's 2016 influence operation: www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
Update: www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/p...
"The cyberattack appears to be one of the first notable pro-Iranian hacks against US infrastructure since the US and Israel began bombing Iran last month." www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/p...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
“DHS ordered the new secrecy rules, sources say, after a CBP FOIA officer lawfully released a redacted privacy assessment, triggering backlash from DHS political leadership.“ www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...
‘our nation’s at war, the entire Middle East is being exposed to risk, including Americans and American business interests and critical dependencies, and we don’t have a DHS secretary or CISA director’-me, in the below. Thx to @snlyngaas.bsky.social for allowing me candidly contribute to this one.
"The man who once described his hunt for voter fraud as an effort to 'save the country' now has a direct line to the president, giving him more influence than ever." www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/p...
"We will secure the data, infrastructure, and models that underpin U.S. leadership in AI and we will call out and frustrate the spread of foreign AI platforms that censor, surveil, and mislead their users."
The White House releases President Trump's cyber strategy. The preamble touts the role of US cyber capabilities in leaving "adversaries blind and uncomprehending" in the operation to capture Nicholas Maduro. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network
via @snlyngaas.bsky.social & @cnn.com
New and exclusive —> FBI investigating a suspected cybersecurity incident on a sensitive network the Bureau uses to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/p...
Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US air base before Qatari planes shot them down, @mostafasalemcnn.bsky.social reports: www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/m...
I talked with @cnn.com about why the most immediate concern is Gulf air defense interceptor inventory -- not US stockpiles. Even if Iranian attack intensity slows, America's Gulf partners have already fired air defense missiles at a faster rate than they can be built.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...
"Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two sources told CNN." www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...
“Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
