A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
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Walking away from terrorist offending is far more complicated than simply quitting a group or a cause. But evidence shows well-designed programs can work.
A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security priorities.
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
The newly named director of national intelligence is a Trump political ally who has no experience in national security. A veteran of the field says it matters who holds the job.
Australia’s spy agency has issued a stark warning about the privacy and national security risks of ‘connected cars’.
Australia has to ensure it can build and run these expensive projects without Chinese investors’ participation.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare vetoed research funding to 13 projects ‘for reasons relevant to the security, defence or international relations’.
Right now, many of these cases claiming unfair treatment are still pending. But the rulings could have big financial implications for governments around the world.
More akin to an intelligence review, the 14 recommendations in the interim report might help government agencies, but don’t yet reckon with the biggest questions.
The security expert says there’s been a ‘disturbing’ rise in Australians’ anxiety about national security over the past two years.
Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran’s political, intelligence and security architecture.
A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy for decades.
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters illegitimate as citizens.
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and military might.
Climate misinformation is undermining emergency response during crises. Canadian governments need to develop co-ordinated efforts to tackle it.
Trump appears to be transforming strategic national security decisions into transactional deals where everything has a price.
A new survey has shown that Australians see AI as a leading threat.
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