National Security

Counterterrorism experts say the Trump administration’s focus on the far left lacks context about the full range of threats from extremists across the political spectrum.

Jay Clayton’s confirmation hearing comes amid growing concern among Democrats that the Trump administration will try to use the intelligence agencies to interfere with the midterm elections.

Recruiting a foreigner to spy for America is a delicate art. It requires a mixture of empathy, manipulation and usually some kind of compensation — and it isn’t always an envelope stuffed with cash.

WASHINGTON — The senior CIA officer arrested in May with several hundred gold bars stashed at his house received additional money or valuables as part of his top-secret work for the agency — which federal investigators have not been able to locate, according to four people with knowledge of the investigation

WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. military officials are in the final stages of reviewing an internal investigation into a deadly airstrike on an Iranian elementary school and preparing to share it with lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the probe.

The Pentagon on Friday released a third batch of vintage classified files related to “flying saucers” and other unidentified anomalous phenomena — better known to most Americans as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs — that the government has been hanging onto for decades

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is urging European countries to mirror U.S. travel restrictions implemented in response to Ebola as the U.S. prepares to host the largest-ever World Cup amid growing concerns about the spread of the disease, according to a State Department cable reviewed by NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official

Former officers worry Bill Pulte could use intelligence to target political opponents or justify federal oversight of elections.

President Donald Trump has named William Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, succeeding Tulsi Gabbard who recently announced she plans to resign the role at the end of June.