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SLOW BUILD
James Clapper
BLACK MARK
America’s top spies talked to Congress on Thursday. But they had a message for the new commander-in-chief and his insistence that Russia had nothing to do with his election.
We Can’t Handle the Truth!
We cherish our freedoms? Value our privacy? Sort of. But the polls show we value our safety. So most of us don’t mind being lied to.
Make It Stop
The U.S. is calling out Russia for a “dramatic rise” in cyber espionage against America. It’s part of a veiled threat to the Kremlin: We know what you’re doing online.
FIREWALL
Good news: the U.S. is getting better at detecting cyber attacks already underway. Bad news: they’re multiplying.
Spy Games
Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae are free. But why was James Clapper the man chosen to pick them up from Pyongyang?
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Leaking
President Obama's Director of National Intelligence spent his life protecting secrets. Then came the biggest leak of all.
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Too Little, Too Late?
The government still considers its call data to be a state secret, but the Director of National Intelligence says Washington should have acknowledged the surveillance.