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

#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

#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…

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

#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

#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…

White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees
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White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say…

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a…