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Mar 11 73 tweets 11 min read
HAPPENING NOW - US intelligence chiefs testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee:

@ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines
@CIA Dir William Burns
@FBI Dir Christoper Wray
@NSAGov Dir Gen Timothy Haugh
@DefenseIntel Dir LtGen Jeffrey Krause
@StateDept Asst Sec for Intel Brett Holmgren Image Noting that the current era is as challenging as ever, with a wide variety of threats, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner calls for "redefining what we think of" when it comes to national security Image
Feb 29 10 tweets 2 min read
NEW: @FBI joins White House, Senate intelligence committee chair in sounding alarm about foreign interference in #Election2024

"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace & enabled by new technology
per Dir Christopher Wray at @INSAlliance #ArtificialIntelligence advances "lowering the barrier to entry-making it easier for both more & less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence" per @FBI's Wray

"Making foreign influence efforts by players old and&new more realistic & difficult to detect"
Feb 25 14 tweets 3 min read
NEW: US worried about #Russia seeking to interfere in #Election2024

"Of course there are concerns" White House Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells @MeetThePress "There's plenty of reason to be concerned" per @JakeSullivan46

"There is a history here in presidential elections by the #Russia|n Federation, by its intelligence services" he says

"We are going to be vigilant"
Feb 6 13 tweets 4 min read
NEW: US confirms #Houthis using "various #Iran|ian-origin missiles & unmanned aerial vehicles" in their attacks on shipping in the #RedSea #GulfofAden

Conclusion based on new analysis by @DefenseIntel The assessment is based on information current as January 2024 - including a "comparative analysis of publicly available images of #Iran|ian missiles & UAVs to those displayed & employed by #Houthi forces in #Yemen to attack commercial shipping" per @DefenseIntel
Feb 1 16 tweets 3 min read
NEW: #alQaida expanding in #Afghanistan

AQ "established up to 8 new training camps in Afghanistan, including four in #Ghazni, #Laghman, #Parwan & #Uruzgan Provinces w/a new base to stockpile weaponry in the #Panjshir Valley" per new @UN report The new #alQaida camps appear to be "conducting suicide bomber training for TTP [Tehrik-i-Taliban #Pakistan]" per the @UN report
Dec 11, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
NEW: @usairforce disciplines 15 Air National Guard members as a result of the so-called Discord intel leak this past April

Inspector General report cited lax inspections, lack of guidance & lack of supervision as contributing factors in the leaks by 21-year-old Jack Teixeira "The IG investigation found individuals in Teixeira’s unit failed to take proper action after becoming aware of his intelligence-seeking activities..." per @usairforce statement
Nov 14, 2023 14 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Pentagon says newly declassified intelligence - from the US intelligence community - that #Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are using hospitals in #Gaza, including Al #Shifa, per @DepPentPressSec Sabrina Singh

"We feel very confident in our sourcing" Comments on the newly declassified US intel on #Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad use of hospital aligns with comments by White House National Security Council spox John Kirby to reporters on AF1
Nov 1, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
NEW: US helping #Israel w/intelligence on external threats from surrounding countries/adversaries as Israeli intel focuses on #Hamas, @DefenseIntel Director LTG Scott Berrier tells @CSIS

"They are really out to destroy Hamas right now "We are helping them [#Israel] right now try to understand what the regional reactions are to all of this - whats the #Iran|ians are thing, what the Shia militias are thinking in #Iraq & #Syria, what the #Houthis are thinking of doing" per @DefenseIntel's LTG Berrier
Oct 27, 2023 18 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: US strikes hit #IRGC-linked facilities near #AbuKamal #Syria, per a senior defense official

"Let's be clear, #Iran is responsible" per the official "Let's be clear, #Iran is responsible" per the sr defense official, referring to the attacks on US forces in #Iraq #Syria
Oct 20, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
NEW: #Russia’s efforts to discredit, undermine democratic elections appear to be expanding, according to newly declassified intelligence, spurred on by what the Kremlin sees as its success in disrupting the past two U.S. presidential elections… The finding, shared in a diplomatic cable sent to + 100 countries, based on a review of Russian information operations between Jan 2020-Dec 2022, found Moscow “engaged in a concerted effort … to undermine public confidence in at least 11 elections across nine democracies”
Jun 5, 2023 6 tweets 6 min read
NEW: US targeting #Russia|n-linked destabilization/influence campaigns in #Moldova

@USTreasury sanctioning 7 individuals, 1 entity, all linked to #Russia|n intelligence ImageImageImage Per @USTreasury, those sanctioned include:

-Konstantin Prokopyevich Sapozhnikov, the leader of the malign influence group who organized a plot to destabilize the #Moldova|N gvt earlier this year

-Yury Yuryevich Makolov, who helped w/logistical support for the plot
Jun 5, 2023 6 tweets 5 min read
NEW: #China's leads world in high-impact research in 19 of 23 technologies, per new analysis by @ASPI_org

Analysis indicates #Biejing has a "commanding lead in #hypersonics, electronic warfare and in key undersea capabilities" "In #hypersonics, undersea capabilities and electronic warfare, #China’s leads are so emphatic they create a significant risk that China might dominate future technological breakthroughs in these areas" per @ASPI_org
Jun 2, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
US, #SouthKorea sounding the alarm -again- about #NorthKorea|n #cyber actors targeting think tanks, academia & the media

@NSAGov @FBI & ROK intel services say they are seeing sustained info gathering/spearphishing efforts from #DPRK impersonators

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The main #DPRK threat is coming from #cyber actors known as Kimsuky, THALLIU or VELVETCHOLLIMA

"...strategically impersonating legitimate sources to collect intelligence on geopolitical events, foreign policy strategies & security developments" per @NSA_CSDirector Rob Joyce
Jun 2, 2023 11 tweets 7 min read
NEW: US does not planning bigger nuclear arsenal to dter #Russia #China Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells #ACA2023

"The United States does not need to increase our nuclear forces to outnumber the combined total of our competitors in order to successfully deter them" "Nor does the United States need to deploy ever more dangerous nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence" vs #Russia, #China, per @JakeSullivan46

"Effective deterrence means that we have a better approach not a more approach"
May 31, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
NEW: #ArtificialIntelligence-""I would look at #AI as yet anoher flavor of technology that has to be built w/security upfront, safety upfront" @CISAJen tells @axios News Shapers

"We have to be able to leverage the power of imagination & avoid the failure of imagination..." "If you actually think that these [#ArtificialIntelligence] capabilities can lead to the extinction of humanity, well, let's come together & do something about it" per @CISAJen
May 30, 2023 10 tweets 8 min read
#FISA Section 702 "has been vital to countering these threats" from terrorists, #cyberattacks, espionage, WMD, @StateDept's Assistant Secretary for @StateINR
Brett Holmgren tells @CSIS But @StateINR's Holmgren adds #FISA Section 702 "doesn't just help defend & protect US interests. It is essential to advancing & promoting US interests in the world"
May 22, 2023 7 tweets 5 min read
#China's spy balloons don't seem to be major worry for @usairforce

"They have a very aggressive intelligence collection program" @SecAFOfficial Frank Kendall tells reporters at @GWUPMNS

But he adds the spy balloons "are a very small part of that & not highly consequential" What does worry @usairforce about #China's surveillance capabilities?

"The space part of it" per @SecAFOfficial Kendall "...is very significant & very consequential"
May 22, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
NEW: F-16s to #Ukraine "will take several months at best" @SecAFOfficial Frank Kendall tells reporters at @GWUPMNS

"A lot of details are gonna have to be sorted out to get us between here & there" "It will give the #Ukrainians an interim capability they don't have right now, but it's not going to be a dramatic game changer" per @SecAFOfficial Kendall
May 9, 2023 12 tweets 10 min read
NEW: 3 possible reasons for #Russia's inability to pack a punch in #cyber during war in #Ukraine, per @WhiteHouse Deputy Nat'l Security Adviser for #Cyber Anne Neuberger "Option 1 is defense" per NSC's Neuberger "#Ukraine learned a lesson of the 2014-2015 conflict when #Russia invaded..."

#Kyiv cut itself off from #Russia's power grid, for example, making it a harder target
May 9, 2023 5 tweets 6 min read
ICYMI: US busts open #Russia|n malware used to help #Moscow spy in + 50 countries

@NSAGov @FBI @CISA w/#Britain #Australia #Canada #NewZealand announced Thursday they ID's the code behind the #FSB's #Snake Malware
nsa.gov/Press-Room/Pre… .@NSAGov describes the #Snake malware as "a sophisticated #Russia|n cyberespionage tool"

"The FSB has victimized industries including education institutions, small businesses, & media organizations" per @NSAGov statement
May 9, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
UPDATE: @CENTCOM still working to confirm identity of suspected senior #alQaida leader targeted in airstrike in NW #Syria last week

Some in Syria claim the person killed was not a terrorist but a 60yo sheep herder

"We are aware of the allegations" per @CENTCOM spox
1/5 "In keeping with standard operating procedure, we are in the process of confirming the identity of the individual killed" per @CENTCOM's Maj John Moore in statement to @VOANews

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