President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed the authority to share "facts pertaining to terrorism" and airline safety with Russia, saying in a pair of tweets he has "an absolute right" as president to do so. Trump's tweets did not say whether he revealed classified information ...
President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about Islamic State militants to Russian officials during a meeting last week, The Washington Post reported Monday, prompting strong condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans. Three White House officials who were in the May 10 meeting strongly denounced ...
South Korea will award up to 1 billion won ($860,000) to defectors from the North with classified information about the reclusive state, reports said Sunday. The government currently offers up to $217,000 to defectors from the North with sensitive information but this will be the ...
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received only his third top-secret intelligence briefing since his election four weeks ago. The relatively few briefings stand in contrast with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who is getting nearly daily briefings. That suggests that Trump is looking to Pence to ...
A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his house and car, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested by the ...
The government approved an ordinance Friday to double the number of staffers for collecting intelligence on terrorism to about 80. The government aims to boost its ability to collect terrorism-related information and improve communication among related officials ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic ...
The Osaka High Court on Wednesday upheld two lower court rulings that ordered the state to disclose some documents on so-called secret funds, saying the content, if declassified, would not be sensitive enough to interfere with national affairs. In the lawsuits, civic group members sought ...
South Korea will set up a military data link to share imagery and real-time intelligence with Japan and the United States.
A Liberal Democratic Party project team plans to call on the Abe administration to set up a new body to expand Japan's ability to gather information abroad to combat terrorism, according to LDP sources. The move comes amid growing concern about terrorism ahead of a ...
Japan decided Friday to move forward the launch of a government unit to collect intelligence on international terrorism as part of a push to strengthen the nation's anti-terrorism capabilities. The launch on Tuesday of the Counterterrorism Unit-Japan was moved up from April in the wake ...
As Japan gears up to host the Group of Seven summit next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will set up a new intelligence-gathering unit on terrorism as early as next month. "Ahead of the Ise-Shima summit, we will boost our counterterrorism measures ...
James Bond and his fellow fictional British operatives allow U.K. intelligence to project an image that goes well beyond the niggling issues of reality.
