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Bipartisan opposition to warrantless surveillance law swells with exposure of FBI abuses

As the Iran war rages, Brookes warily eyes China’s rush to build ICBM-armed submarines that can strike the U.S. with impunity

Puzzle over war aims; Little hope for Iranian democracy, NIC said before strikes; CIA-Kurds plan dumped; White House buries warning on Iran-linked terror in U.S.

Top former U.S. intelligence official David Shedd says Xi may move on Taiwan next year, but "certainly by the end of the decade"

Tehran’s surviving leaders are betting they can wait out U.S. and Israeli air attacks

Longtime national security reporter Yossi Melman hears missiles exploding overhead while watching Israeli TV pundits cheer on Netanyahu and the Iran war.

Also:: China spied on Alysa Liu and her dad, Tulsi stiffs Gang of Eight, former Air Force pilot turns coat, new Skripal documentary.

How an Orwellian Obama-era memo set a precedent for Trump’s Iran attack

With Khamenei dead, Trump implores surviving leaders to lay down arms, accept amnesty, or die

U.S., British lies about Iraq WMD haunt Trump claims on Iran’s nuclear, missiles programs

Some options are more probable than others, says Microsoft's Bing Copilot, but Trump’s state of mind is the wild card.

Taliban’s India alliance, bold cross-border attacks in Pakistan, inflamed Islamabad.

Also: Kash in Rome, the CIA's forecast on Russia invasion, profiles of Ukraine's HUR, North Korea's RGB, defectors, Havana Syndrome

A veteran British foreign correspondent captures the years when Palestinian terrorists captured the world's attention, only to burn out and cede ground to Iran's proxies

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon says the A.G.'s leftwing 'enemies list' is worse than previous 'Red Scares' because nobody knows who's on it.

Also: Bondi on domestic terrorism, Russian and Chinese agents jailed, AI in the Maduro raid, more

Gabbard’s 2024 Vatican visit, arranged by Pierre Louvrier, a Paris-based, pro-Russia financier, triggered a TSA security alert—not her opposition to Biden-Harris

Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI’s claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe

A former CIA Russia hand illuminates Vladimir Putin’s dark arts

And more: An IC whistleblower's bomb, Treasury's secret money op against Iran, Wyden's odd letter to CIA boss Ratcliffe, a GRU general whacked, a Benghazi plotter nabbed