Director Burns announces changes to best position #CIA for current and future national security challenges.
— @CIA Oct 7, 2021
2001 – 2004
The events of September 11, 2001, set in motion sweeping changes to U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism practices, launched two major wars, and altered Americans’ daily routines. This timeline traces three pivotal years whose reverberations continue today.
In the aftermath of 9/11 everyone, from elected officials and national security experts to ordinary citizens had one question: how could this happen to a nation with such an enormous and expensive military and intelligence architecture? The question was so ubiquitous that (in spite of some foot dragging by the Bush Administration) it eventually led […]
OTD May 15, 1962 #CIA‘s brand new Original Headquarters Building fully occupied. More space will be needed soon. Attention Movie people: The CIA is not in Langley, Va for the simple reason Langley, Va does not exist.
— @SpiesVespers May 15, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday sanctioned more than a half-dozen associates of a Ukrainian lawmaker accused by U.S. officials of interfering in the 2020 presidential election by releasing edited audio recordings of President-elect Joe Biden.
Melania Trump is ‘counting the minutes until divorce’ when Donald leaves the White House, former aides claim trib.al/FnkAG8K #Election2020
— @Daily_MailUS Nov 7, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Donald Trump’s campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden’s relationship with Ukraine.
Most #Spies are sent to prison or are freed in a prisoner spy swap. This 1950s Soviet #GRU #spy told #UK intelligence about the #SovietUnion placing nuclear missiles in #Cuba. He was caught, bound to a stretcher, and cremated live in a crematorium oven. tom-kane-author.website/blog…
— @Robert4787 Aug 31, 2020
This. Very much this. Some very sane thoughts on the disquieting moral panic about #disinformation and – gah – “infodemic” doing the rounds
The focus on foreign subversion ignores the damage being done at home – by @SevaUT in @ForeignPolicy
— @MarkGaleotti Apr 22, 2020
The EU has identified ‘pro-Kremlin sources’ as the architects of #COVID19 #disinformation, says Věra Jourová, EU Commission vice-president for values and transparency, in an exclusive interview with Euronews.
#Globalconversation bit.ly/3a04VsK
— @euronews Apr 9, 2020