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On Friday, the intelligence community followed up on a previous report by issuing “a declassified version of a highly classified assessment that has been provided to the President and to recipients approved by the President.” The new report — entitled “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” — makes the same bold claims as (and offers no more proof than) the previous Joint Analysis Report (JAR) by DHS and the FBI released in late December.The new report is a product of the CIA, FBI, and NSA, and runs 25 pages in all. Of those 25 pages, the first...

In 2012, the Obama administration produced a draft National Intelligence Estimate that reached a surprising conclusion: al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That classified assessment, which has never before been publicly disclosed, was in keeping with the message coming from the White House. President Obama rode to re-election in 2012 partly on the success of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. At rallies and in press conferences, the president and top officials publicly said al Qaeda was on the run. But some senior U.S. intelligence officials, like Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Michael Flynn, fought...

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President Barack Obama's head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano, has created a firestorm of controversy with the release of a "right-wing extremism" report. To paraphrase this report, returning U.S. military veterans, pro-life proponents, anti-illegal immigration activists and Evangelical Christians -- including conservative Catholics -- may be considered threats to the American government or possibly terrorists. The Obama administration sees you, pro-life and pro-family citizens across the nation, (including IFI email subscribers), as a possible threat. While you may think you hold valid concerns and are being good citizens by exercising your First Amendment rights to make...

If you thought efforts were over to rewrite history on the lead-up to the war in Iraq and to smear the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, then think again. A remarkable pair of reports released last week by the Senate Select committee on Intelligence re-examine for the umpteenth time the pre-war intelligence on Iraqi WMD programs and Saddam’s alleged ties to al-Qaeda. The reports were produced at the demand of committee Democrats as part of a vast fishing expedition aimed at buttressing their old saw, Bush lied-People died. What’s remarkable about these reports are not the facts...

WASHINGTON -- In a "60 Minutes" interview on April 23, Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's Europe division, made a sensational charge. He claimed that President Bush and his White House ignored intelligence before the invasion of Iraq indicating that Saddam Hussein had no had weapons of mass destruction. On the CBS-TV show, and in subsequent media interviews that appeared throughout the world, Drumheller said that the White House was excited about the fact that the CIA was getting information straight from Naji Sabri, the then Iraqi foreign minister. But when the White House found out this source...

I found myself agreeing with Walter Lamb's letter to the editor regarding the leftist press. Sometimes the media bias is as much in what they don't report as what they do report. For instance, the Senate Intelligence Committee Report, released last week, found no proof that Iraq was behind 9/11 or that Saddam Hussein controlled Osama bin Laden. The headlines blared that "Bush lied". Aside from the fact that no one in the administration ever said that Hussein was behind 9/11 or that he controlled bin Laden, the Report contained over 60 detailed pages of direct connections between Iraq and...

George J. Tenet's resignation comes just as a critical, 400-page report from the Senate intelligence committee was readied for public release later this month in the form of an unclassified version. Some Tenet associates disclosed that the imminent report was among the causes that led him to step down, according to a report in the NY Times. According to the report, the classified version of the Senate report spells out a shopping list of failures: the failure of the C.I.A. to develop human sources of intelligence within Saddam Hussein's government before the war; the C.I.A.'s heavy reliance on foreign governments...