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    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      The Big Read
      Beyond the balloon: the US-China spy game

      Chinese state intelligence-gathering has grown in ambition and scale, leaving Washington struggling to catch up

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Chinese spy balloon incursion reveals past US intelligence failings

      Officials say flight allowed them to collect more information about Beijing’s surveillance abilities

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      CIA director warns Russia against use of nuclear weapons

      US intelligence chief Bill Burns meets his Russian counterpart Sergei Naryshkin in Ankara

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      US-China relations
      White House sounds alert on inbound Chinese investment

      Biden signs executive order urging closer scrutiny of deals involving critical technologies

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Ardi Janjeva
      Spy agencies must realise the power of open source intelligence

      In today’s environment, governments need to get over deep-rooted preferences for ‘secret’ information

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      ‘A real stroke of genius’: US leads efforts to publicise Ukraine intelligence

      Release of assessments of Russia’s military woes is latest twist in novel spying strategy

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      The Big Read
      Has Biden got inside Putin’s head?

      The US says it has published intelligence about Russia’s military to make a Ukraine invasion harder. But some allies fear it is exacerbating tensions

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      US-China relations
      Chinese intelligence officer convicted of stealing GE secrets

      US justice department accuses Beijing of using espionage to modernise its industries

    • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
      US-China relations
      CIA beefs up China focus with new mission centre

      US intelligence agency has made countering Beijing’s ‘increasingly adversarial’ government a top priority

    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      Global InsightVictor Mallet
      Why France was more clear-eyed about Afghanistan than the US

      Paris, which started evacuating Afghans and staff in May, had ‘more dispassionate’ assessment of same intelligence

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Coronavirus pandemic
      US intelligence fails to reach conclusion on Covid-19 origin

      Biden blames China for stalling inquiry into whether virus emerged from animals or lab in Wuhan

    • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
      Coronavirus pandemic
      US intelligence split over Covid-19 lab-leak theory

      Agencies coalesce around ‘two likely scenarios’ amid renewed debate about virus’s origins

    • Monday, 11 January, 2021
      US politics & policy
      Biden to nominate veteran diplomat William Burns as CIA director

      US president-elect moves to build out his national security team ahead of inauguration

    • Monday, 9 November, 2020
      US politics & policy
      Trump sacks defence secretary Mark Esper

      President says Pentagon chief has been ‘terminated’ in first major act since losing the election

    • Sunday, 30 August, 2020
      US politics & policy
      US intelligence to stop in-person election briefings to Congress

      Democrats accuse Trump of trying to suppress evidence of foreign interference in polls

    • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
      US foreign policy
      Lawmakers seek probe into claim Russia put bounty on US soldiers

      US intelligence reportedly concluded that militants were offered money to kill Nato troops in Afghanistan

    • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
      US politics & policy
      US Senate confirms Trump ally as intelligence chief

      Texas congressman John Ratcliffe confirmed on a party-line vote 10 months after first nomination

    • Tuesday, 5 May, 2020
      Trump’s pick for intelligence chief vows to be fair

      John Ratcliffe testifies at confirmation hearing held under social distancing rules

    • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
      The US president’s intelligence upheaval exposes America’s spies

      US agencies fear their independence is under attack from the president

    • Sunday, 12 January, 2020
      Security Service UK
      MI5 head shrugs off risk to intelligence sharing from Huawei links

      UK set to decide on allowing Chinese equipment into 5G network in face of US lobbying

    • Monday, 9 December, 2019
      Trump Russia ties
      Report finds no bias in FBI’s launch of Russia election investigation

      US watchdog finds mistakes but no ‘improper motivation’ in probe that has enraged Trump

    • Friday, 25 October, 2019
      Trump Russia ties
      US review of Russia probe morphs into criminal inquiry

      DoJ investigation given powers to compel witnesses and potentially to bring charges

    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      US politics & policy
      Trump slams whistleblower complaint as scandal grows

      President denies ‘dicey’ conversation with foreign leader: ‘There was nothing said wrong’

    • Thursday, 29 August, 2019
      James Comey
      DoJ watchdog censures Comey over Trump memo leaks

      Inspector general finds ex-director violated FBI policy but no prosecution will ensue

    • Friday, 2 August, 2019
      US politics & policy
      Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief withdraws

      US president’s plan to nominate John Ratcliffe drew immediate opposition

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