#intelligence officials

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BOMBSHELL: Trump’s Acting DNI Bill Pulte begins FIRING Intelligence Officials

MS NOW’s David Rohde shares details on the exclusive reporting that Trump’s Acting DNI Bill Pulte has started firing dozens of intelligence officials. A source telling MS NOW that the individuals being removed by the Trump administration are officials “who they believe are deep state.” Intelligence leadership claim that the fired workers have not provided complete pictures of available intelligence. The Morning Joe panel discusses how the firings are the latest sign that Trump may use conspiracy theories to try to discredit the results of the midterms.

[gwydionmisha]

Trump briefed by intelligence officials about ongoing Iranian threats to assassinate him, campaign says

A campaign spokesperson said the former president was briefed on "real and specific threats from Iran" to kill him and to destabilize the No

[gwydionmisha]

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The A…

As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia

As top Trump Cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.

Democrats call Trump intelligence officials' use of group chat "reckless, sloppy and stunning"

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe testified in a Senate Intelligence hearing that was pre-sche

WATCH: Gabbard questioned on participating in Signal chat where war plans allegedly leaked

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard would not say if she participated in Signal chats on her personal phone.

'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder

Top officials in the Trump administration discussed a military operation in a group chat on a commercially available messaging platform with

Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security

Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's ridiculously poor track record of mishandling sensitive information, with the scandal of several of hi

'Unheard of': Slotkin says Trump war plans breach endangers 'human beings'

Former CIA officer and Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin sounds off on the Trump administration’s national security breach: “There are human bein

‘Sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence’: Hayes on the Trump war plans breach 

“This was not an anonymous leak or a hack by a foreign adversary, but rather an act of sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence,” says Chris

What experts say about protocols and the Yemen war Signal group chat …

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Intelligence officials risk Trump's wrath delivering hard truths

Robert Draper, writer at large for the New York Times Magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow about his latest reporting on how U.S. intelligence officials have learned to tailor their reports to better suit what Donald Trump wants to hear.

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McCabe gets the nation's attention

I wanted to watch the “60 Minutes” interview with former acting  FBI director Andrew McCabe partly because the teasers preceding it made it almost an irresistible bit of broadcast journalism.

The interview didn’t disappoint me.

Of all the assertions McCabe made during his interview with CBS correspondent Scott Pelley, the one that got my attention referred to a conversation McCabe had with…

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[jkanelis]

McCabe gets the nation's attention

I wanted to watch the “60 Minutes” interview with former acting  FBI director Andrew McCabe partly because the teasers preceding it made it almost an irresistible bit of broadcast journalism.

The interview didn’t disappoint me.

Of all the assertions McCabe made during his interview with CBS correspondent Scott Pelley, the one that got my attention referred to a conversation McCabe had with…

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WASHINGTON | Trump points to 'vicious' world in discussing writer's death

WASHINGTON | Trump points to ‘vicious’ world in discussing writer’s death

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump disputed that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded that the de facto leader of American ally Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of a U.S.-based journalist critical of the kingdom’s royal family.

Citing vehement denials by the crown prince and king that they were involved, Trump said Thursday that “maybe the world should be held accountable because the world…

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WASHINGTON | The Latest: Trump says nothing definitive in writer's death

WASHINGTON | The Latest: Trump says nothing definitive in writer’s death

WASHINGTON  — The Latest on U.S. response to the murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi (all times local): 4 p.m.

President Donald Trump says the CIA never made a determination about who killed Saudi writer and critic Jamal Khashoggi (jah-MAHL’ khahr-SHOHK’-jee). He says intelligence officials never had anything “definitive.”

Trump was questioned at the White House about his decision not to…

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