Intelligence Officials Face a Fresh Round of Questions About Signal Leak
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Intelligence Officials Face a Fresh Round of Questions About Signal Leak

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Members of President Trump’s cabinet insisted at a House committee hearing on Wednesday that there was nothing wrong with using a consumer messaging app to discuss U.S. military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. On Tuesday, the spy chiefs told the Senate…

Trump Administration Deflects Blame for Leak at Every Turn
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Trump Administration Deflects Blame for Leak at Every Turn

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It was a hoax. The information wasn’t classified. Somehow the journalist got “sucked into” the Signal chat, either deliberately or through some kind of technical glitch. In the days since the editor in chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been inadvertently included…

Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist
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Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump characterized an extraordinary security breach as a minor transgression on Tuesday, insisting that top administration officials had not shared any classified information as they discussed secret military plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic…

Signal Chat Disclosure Poses Early Test for F.B.I. and Justice Dept.
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Signal Chat Disclosure Poses Early Test for F.B.I. and Justice Dept.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In years past, the move by senior members of President Trump’s administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app would have represented a serious breach that would have likely prompted investigations by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s national security division….

Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk
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Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potentially scores of Russian diplomats into the United States after years of expulsions. But the good-will gesture, which would be reciprocated by Moscow, could be…

State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
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State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Senior State Department officials have drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates overseas by this summer and are considering shutting down many more missions, in what could be a blow to the U.S. government’s efforts to build partnerships and gather intelligence, American…

C.I.A. Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers
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C.I.A. Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration have hit the C.I.A. Some officers hired in the last two years have been summoned to a location away from the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., and asked to surrender their credentials to security personnel,…

C.I.A. Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine
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C.I.A. Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been paused alongside military aid to pressure its government to cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans to end the country’s war with Russia. Speaking on Fox Business, Mr. Ratcliffe…

Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102
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Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who made Blue Nun one of the most popular wines in the world in the 1970s and ’80s….