Trump cancels the Senate confirmation hearing for his national intelligence pick to force Congress to first confirm his personal lawyer as Manhattan U.S. attorney.
White House officials fear New York Times reporters obtained Situation Room recordings for a forthcoming book that quotes top-secret meetings verbatim.
Anthropic’s investor Amazon triggers Friday’s White House takedown of the AI firm’s new Fable model, calling it a security threat days after launch.
The Pentagon releases a third batch of UFO files it bills as transparency, though they show strange lights and no proof of alien craft.
Outgoing intelligence director Gabbard rescinds two reports that doubted foreign involvement in Havana Syndrome, reviving the adversary weapon theory a decade after symptoms emerged.
Trump picks Manhattan U.S. attorney Jay Clayton for intelligence chief as his interim choice of housing regulator Bill Pulte sinks surveillance law renewal.
Trump backs intelligence chief Pulte slashing agency jobs, saying his temporary status leaves him less shackled.
Trump says housing chief Pulte will not be his permanent intelligence director, days after bipartisan backlash over the acting appointment.
Trump names housing finance chief Pulte, who has no intelligence background, as acting director of national intelligence while he keeps running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Four Russian Kosmos military satellites maneuver into co-planar orbits within striking distance of a Finnish-American radar satellite supplying Ukraine with surveillance imagery.
National intelligence chief Gabbard resigns citing husband’s bone cancer, after months of exclusion from Iran war debates and the Maduro capture operation.
CISA contractor at Nightwing publicly exposed AWS GovCloud admin credentials, plaintext passwords, and internal CISA system access on GitHub for six months.
FBI seeks $36 million contract for nationwide license plate reader access across all 50 states and territories, no warrant required for queries.
U.S. military aircraft conducted 26 surveillance flights within 80 miles of Cuba since February, now encircling the island instead of passing by as in 2025
CIA Director Ratcliffe meets Cuban intelligence in Havana as DOJ signals imminent indictment of 94-year-old Raúl Castro over 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown.
DHS used 1930s customs law to demand Google hand over a Canadian man’s location and activity after he criticized ICE killings online.
DHS intelligence office tells watchdog it will fix smartphone security holes by January 2027 after audit found 76% of apps were banned.
Pentagon signs AI deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for classified military networks.
House passes 45-day FISA Section 702 extension after Senate rejected three-year renewal, with Wyden securing 15-day declassification deal on secret surveillance court opinion.
Treasury official who raised privacy objections to surveillance of Minneapolis Somali community payments expected to be nominated US representative to OECD.
Justice Department charges Fort Bragg special forces master sergeant in first U.S. prediction market insider trading case after $400,000 Polymarket profit on Maduro capture.
Justice Department agrees to pay Carter Page $1.25 million to settle 2016 surveillance lawsuit, a month after paying Flynn over $1 million.
DOJ withdraws grand jury subpoenas in Brennan probe hours after installing Trump loyalist Joe diGenova, who called Brennan a conspiracy “head” on TV.
OMB contradicts its own federal CIO, denies any policy process to grant agencies access to Anthropic’s Mythos.
DOJ installs Trump loyalist Joe diGenova to run Florida “grand conspiracy” probe targeting intelligence officials and prosecutors.
Senate clears FISA extension through April 30 after 20 House Republicans block Johnson’s longer surveillance renewal including warrant reforms.
Anthropic CEO meets White House chief of staff Wiles as OMB moves to give federal agencies access to Mythos, routing around Pentagon blacklist.
Justice Department removes career prosecutor leading Brennan probe after she resisted pressure to quickly charge former CIA director and Trump critic.
White House app shares user data with third parties including a Russia-founded company while its privacy disclosure claims it collects nothing.
FBI labels breach of its surveillance system a “major incident” after China-linked hackers accessed phone monitoring data and investigation subjects’ personal information.
Iranian drone strike on U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused far more damage than disclosed, hitting the CIA station and burning for half a day.
California Rep. Swalwell’s lawyers send cease and desist to FBI Director Patel, demanding he stop releasing files from a closed probe that produced no charges.
FBI Director Patel pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Swalwell from a closed probe that produced no charges, as Swalwell leads California governor’s race.
Iran-linked hackers breach FBI Director Patel’s personal email weeks after he vowed to “hunt” the group and offered $10 million for information on its members.
Newly released prosecution memo reveals Trump showed a classified map to passengers on his private plane in 2022 and retained a record restricted to six senior officials.
Trump posts “good, I’m glad he’s dead” after former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller dies at 81.
Pentagon will adopt Palantir’s AI targeting system as an official program of record, locking in long-term military funding for the weapons platform used in the Iran war.
DOJ subpoenas former FBI Director Comey in a new probe of Obama officials over Russia, months after a judge threw out the administration’s first case against him.
FBI Director Patel confirms the agency is buying commercially available data that can track people’s movements, the first acknowledgment since the bureau said it stopped the practice in 2023.
DNI Gabbard tells senators only Trump can determine whether Iran was an “imminent” threat, one day after her own NCTC director resigned saying it was not.
Trump’s counterterrorism director resigns over Iran war, calling it a conflict “started due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Dan Caldwell, fired by Hegseth over alleged Pentagon leaks and later cleared, hired by intelligence office led by Tulsi Gabbard.
FBI searches of Americans’ data under Section 702 surveillance rose 35% in 2025 as the administration pushes Congress for a clean renewal before the law expires in April.
FBI warns Iran “aspired” to launch drone attacks from a vessel off the California coast, based on intelligence gathered before the war began.
Pentagon investigation finds U.S. strike likely killed 168 children at Iranian school because military used outdated intelligence that misidentified it as part of a military base.
Senate confirms Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead NSA and Cyber Command 71-29, ending an 11-month vacancy created when Laura Loomer pushed to fire his predecessor.
Russia shares satellite intelligence on U.S. warships, bases, and aircraft with Iran in what sources call “a pretty comprehensive effort.”
FBI Director Patel fired a dozen counterintelligence staffers with Iran expertise days before strikes began, retaliating for their work on the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
Sen. Wyden places hold on Trump’s nominee to lead NSA and Cyber Command, saying the career special operations officer has no cybersecurity or signals intelligence background.
