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An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

OPINION – I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear [...] More

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Facing Threats in the ‘Fourth Era’ of American Counterintelligence

OPINION — In their article “An All-of-Society Approach to U.S. Counterintelligence,” Calder Walton and Greg Levesque noted the comprehensive nature [...] More

Intel Chiefs Detail Top Threats – and Get a Grilling Over Signal Leak

Intel Chiefs Detail Top Threats – and Get a Grilling Over Signal Leak

SPECIAL REPORT – The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) annual assessment of threats facing the U.S. puts narcotics trafficking at the top of the [...] More

Understanding an ‘Unprecedented Moment’ for the FBI

EXPERT INTERVIEWS – As part of the Trump Administration’s aim to reduce government payrolls, it has taken several actions involving the FBI. More [...] More

Questions for Trump's FBI Nominee Kash Patel

OPINION — “The FBI’s footprint has gotten so freaking big and the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I’d break that [...] More

Targeting FBI Budget Makes Us More Vulnerable on Cyber

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION: The House Appropriations Committee is proposing significant cuts to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) budget, [...] More

The Unraveling of Russian Spies

OPINION — Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the illegal intelligence department [Division S] of his Foreign Intelligence [...] More

The Battle the FBI is Waging Every Day

OPINION — FBI Director Christopher Wray’s talk at the Reagan Library on January 31 was titled “Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Government [...] More

When it comes to Cyberattacks, Can we really just talk it out?

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

First New Steps to Combatting Domestic Terrorism

Javed Ali held senior counterterrorism positions at DHS, the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security [...] More

A Worldwide Threats Hearing Guide from the Bleachers

As US Worldwide Threats hearings get underway in Washington after a two-year hiatus, experts will be watching to see how the Biden Administration's [...] More

A New Approach to Domestic Terrorism

A New Approach to Domestic Terrorism

Javed Ali, Policymaker in Residence, University of MichiganJaved Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. [...] More

A Roadmap for Tackling Violent Extremist Content Online

Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and had over 20 years [...] More