Dan Boylan

Russia accuses Washington of bullying allies to join mass expulsion of diplomats

Top Russians officials have accused Washington of bullying allies to join a mass expulsion of Russian diplomats in response to the nerve-agent attack on a former Kremlin intelligence officer and his daughter in Britain.

March 27, 2018

Donald Trump expels 60 Russian officials over nerve-agent attack in Britain

President Trump expelled 60 Russian intelligence officers Monday and closed Russia's consulate in Seattle, joining European allies in punishing Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.

March 26, 2018

House Intelligence Committee votes to formally close its Russian election-meddling investigation

Partisan to the last, the House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday along party lines to end its more than yearlong investigation into Russian election meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

March 22, 2018

OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, awarded Congressional Gold Medal

The Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian distinction, was awarded on Wednesday to veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II intelligence agency and CIA predecessor.

March 21, 2018

Trump failing to ‘inoculate’ U.S. elections from Russian hacks says top Democrat on intel panel

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee lashed out at President Trump for failing to acknowledge the severity of the threat Russia possess to America's upcoming midterm elections.

March 21, 2018

Senate intel committee makes security recommendations for the 2018 election cycle

Senate intelligence committee leaders made a series of recommendations Tuesday for U.S. states and branches of the federal government to protect this year's midterm elections from the type of foreign meddling that cast doubt over the 2016 polls.

March 20, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg could be in hot seat as Congress’ ire over Facebook grows

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has thus far avoided a personal congressional grilling, despite mounting questions about his company's privacy standards and potential connections to the Russian election-meddling scandal.

March 19, 2018

Homeland Security officials to testify before Senate Intelligence committee on election security

The Senate Intelligence Committee will question the current and former Homeland Security secretaries on Wednesday and focus on threats the U.S. election infrastructure could face as American voters prepare to cast ballots in the upcoming midterm elections.

March 19, 2018

Senators demand explanation for unspent funds to counter Russian propaganda

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has demanded an explanation for why tens of millions in federal funds allocated to battle Russian disinformation and propaganda has gone unspent.

March 16, 2018

Vladimir Putin, emboldened by Russian elections, to expand influence abroad

There's little suspense about Sunday's Russian presidential election, but a lot of questions -- and concerns -- over what Vladimir Putin might do next with another six-year term in his pocket and a string of unresolved confrontations with the West.

March 15, 2018

Paul Nakasone, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the NSA, faces Senate confirmation hearing

Army Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, President Trump's nominee to head the National Security Agency, is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday in his second confirmation hearing.

March 15, 2018

House’s probe of Russian election meddling ends

The House Intelligence Committee's Russian election meddling probe which ended Monday began with a bang and ended — at least for the panel's Republicans — with a whimper.

March 13, 2018

Robert Mueller invokes ‘conspiracy to defraud government’ charge in Russia probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors have invoked an unusual "conspiracy to defraud the government" charge to ensnare a Russian cyber network and could use the same legal strategy to go after President Trump and his associates, even if the conspiracy is not linked to a criminal act.

March 12, 2018

House intelligence committee finds no collusion between Trump campaign, Russia

The House intelligence committee has finished its Russian election-meddling investigation with a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Kremlin, according to GOP panel members.

March 12, 2018

Qatar has damaging information on Jared Kushner: Report

Officials from Qatar claim to have obtained evidence that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), its Persian Gulf neighbor, illicitly influenced President Trump's son-in-law and White House special adviser Jared Kushner.

March 12, 2018

Xi Jinping president for life after China abolishes term limits

Chinese lawmakers have passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing term limits for its leader, effectively allowing Xi Jinping to rule the world's largest county as president for life.

March 11, 2018

Corey Lewandowski faces House Russia investigation as probe winds down

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday for more closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee amid growing signs the panel's contentious probe into the Russian election-meddling may soon be wrapping up.

March 8, 2018

Dan Coats ‘absurd’ security clearance process reveals systems woes

The process to obtain access classified government information has become so "absurd" that when then-Sen. Dan Coats, who served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, was named President Trump's director of national intelligence, he needed to reapply for a security clearance.

March 7, 2018

Google artificial intelligence helping process U.S. military-drone data

Google artificial intelligence technology is reportedly being used by the Department of Defense to process and analyze aerial drone footage.

March 7, 2018

Reddit admits Russian trolls got into website during 2016 presidential election

Reddit, the social media platform that has spawned some of the country's most outrageous political conspiracy theories, has admitted its websites were penetrated during the 2016 U.S. presidential election by Russia.

March 6, 2018