Tag: ODNI

Republican Senators Request All Records Behind Intelligence Chief’s COVID Origins Report

A group of Republican senators is calling on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to turn over the materials that informed her office’s latest assessment on the origins of COVID-19. In a March 6 letter (pdf), the senators—led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Md.)—asked that Haines provide the “memoranda; emails; interim and final assessments provided by…


‘Canadian Officials’ Surface in ‘Twitter Files’, With Accounts Flagged by US State Department

Twitter accounts used by the Canadian government have been caught in the U.S. government dragnet attempting to counter online disinformation, a recent iteration of the “Twitter Files” released by journalist Matt Taibbi reveals. Taibbi published a new thread on Jan. 3 which provides further details on how the U.S. government and its agencies interacted with…


‘Canadian Officials’ Surface in Twitter Files, as Accounts Are Flagged by US State Department

Twitter accounts used by the Canadian government have been caught in the U.S. government dragnet attempting to counter online disinformation, a recent iteration of the so-called Twitter Files released by journalist Matt Taibbi reveals. Taibbi published a new thread on Jan. 3 which provides further details on how the U.S. government and its agencies interacted…


US Intelligence Officials Resume National Security Risk Assessment of Documents Trump Kept at Home

U.S. intelligence officials have resumed a national security risk assessment of potential disclosure of documents former President Donald Trump kept at his home in Florida, a spokesperson with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has confirmed to The Epoch Times. “In consultation with the Department of Justice, ODNI is resuming the classification…


White House: Biden ‘Not Involved’ in Intelligence Assessment of Trump Documents

A White House spokesperson on Monday said President Joe Biden isn’t involved in an intelligence assessment of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago handling of allegedly classified materials. “It is an appropriate action for the director in the intelligence community to undertake, but, again, I’ll let them speak to the details of this,” Kirby said Monday….


UFO Briefing Was Given to Canadian Defence Minister Ahead of Landmark US Public Report: Documents

The former Canadian minister of defence received a briefing on UFOs last year from his department ahead of the release of a U.S. intelligence community report on the topic, according to newly obtained documents. The PowerPoint presentation titled “Unidentifed Aerial Phenomena (UAP): Brief to MND” says there are “Approximately 1,000 UFO sightings reported in Canada…


US Appoints New Intelligence Official to Counter Foreign Election Threats

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has appointed Jeffrey Winchman, a former CIA official, as the new election threats executive responsible for overseeing foreign interference to U.S. elections, according to a spokesperson from ODNI. ODNI spokesperson Nicole de Haay told The New York Times on Jan. 14 that ODNI Director of National Intelligence Avril D….


Biden Warns Cyberattacks Against US Could Spark a ‘Real Shooting War’

President Joe Biden warned on July 27 that the United States could respond with a “real shooting war” against countries that decided to launch cyberattacks against America. Biden made the remarks during a speech at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which provides oversight to the U.S. intelligence community. “If we end…


Biden’s Top Intelligence Pick Says CCP an Adversary ‘On Some Issues’

President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to answer a yes-or-no question about whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is an adversary of the United States. Avril Haines, who Biden intends to nominate as the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers on the Senate Select Committee on…


China ‘Sought to Influence’ 2020 US Election, Director of National Intelligence Assesses

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe assessed that China interfered in the 2020 federal elections, according to a letter transmitted to Congress. In the letter (pdf), Ratcliffe alleges that intelligence about China’s election interference was suppressed by management at the CIA, which pressured analysts to withdraw their support for the view. Citing a report…