Intel Consensus: Russians Hacked The Election

By John A. Tirpak
The US intelligence community will issue a report “early next week” with a consensus finding that Russia did, in fact, mount a campaign to influence the US presidential election, using “classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news,” and the selective release of...

Protecting Sources

By John A. Tirpak
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said his confidence in attributing the hacks that played a role in the November election to Russia was “very high.” Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Clapper said that if the...

Keep Intel Apolitical

By John A. Tirpak
The US intelligence community should be kept “apolitical,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. Responding to questions from Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) at a hearing about cyber?security, Clapper said, “I could not feel...

Cutting off Your Nose…

By John A. Tirpak
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), pressed director of National Intelligence James Clapper at a cyber?security hearing Thursday as to “who benefits” from “disparaging comments” about the US intelligence community. She said President-elect Donald Trump has been “trashing the intelligence community” and...

Correction

An entry in the Dec. 21 Daily Report misstated the title of an officer involved in the planning of B-52 exercises in the South China Sea. Capt. Chandler Anderson is the 34th Bomb Squadron assistant flight commander, airborne mission commander,...