Tag Archives: intelligence

How would the world change if we found alien life?

If contact with extraterrestrial life is made through radio telescopes, a decipherment process may have to take place to understand the message. (NASA) A second look by the Mars Global Surveyor at the so-called Viking “Face on Mars” in Cydonia…

DIA Director sees Iraq as ‘quagmire,’ but strikes term from testimony

EXCLUSIVE: One of President Obama’s top intelligence officers has privately concluded that the situation in Iraq is a “quagmire,” but struck the term from testimony being prepared for him to deliver on Capitol Hill, Fox News has learned. Internal documents…

Documents challenge Clinton claim no classified intel on personal emails

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her personal email account to handle high level negotiations in 2011 for a no-fly zone to help topple Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, according to a series of emails obtained by Fox News, challenging her…

Former CIA operative: Bergdahl was ‘high’ when captured in Afghanistan

EXCLUSIVE: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was apparently “high” with a small group of Afghan soldiers when they were picked up by nomads in 2009, according to a former CIA operative who was running a network of informants on the ground. The…

Sources: Administration tried to recruit Taliban 5 members as informants, effort was ‘total failure’

The U.S. government tried to recruit members of the Taliban Five as assets, so they could gather intelligence and the U.S. could influence their future actions, Fox News has learned. The effort to “flip” the five Taliban leaders into becoming…

Obama administration scrambles to contain damage from ‘massive data breach’

The Obama administration was scrambling Friday to contain the damage from a massive cyber-breach which may have put the entire federal workforce at risk, as officials began to point the finger at China-based hackers. The Department of Homeland Security issued…

US believes China behind cybersecurity breach affecting at least 4M federal employees

Hackers based in China are believed to be behind a massive data breach that could have compromised the personal data of at least 4 million current and former federal employees, U.S. officials said late Thursday. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a…

Uneasy peace: Social media buzz points to more Baltimore violence as cops, troops keep the peace

Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire Monday, April 27, 2015, at a senior living facility under construction at Federal and Chester Streets in East Baltimore. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP) The data mining firm that found between 20 and…

The Foxhole: Michael Pillsbury, real-life ‘Smoking Man’ from Nixon to Obama, unravels China’s secrets

In autumn 1969, President Nixon and his White House national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, worried that one of the president’s main foreign policy objectives – the opening to China – conflicted with another: détente, the diplomatic overture to the Soviet…

‘Ex Machina’ stars talk A.I., how Ava stacks up to her cinematic robot peers

Oscar Isaac stars as a tech genius who creates a female Artificial Intelligence (AI) named Ava played by Alicia Vikander in the new sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina”. He brings one of his employees (Domnhall Gleeson) to his isolated estate to…