Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager I cannot imagine any thinking person who does not believe the world is getting worse. The number of slaughtered and the number of refugees from slaughter is immense and growing. Islamic State now controls territories from Afghanistan to West Africa. Libya is in the process of being added to that […]
By Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times President Clinton left the National Security Agency, the nation’s electronic eavesdropper, in shambles at the very moment Al Qaida was in the final planning stages of carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Retired Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the NSA director […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China warned the United States on Wednesday not to adopt punitive currency policies that could disrupt U.S.-China relations after Donald Trump’s win in the Nevada caucus. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing that “we are following with interest the U.S. presidential election.” Hua was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China is continuing to conduct cyber espionage operations against the United States, and Beijing’s commitment to a U.S.-China cyber agreement is questionable, the director of national intelligence told Congress on Tuesday. “China continues cyber espionage against the United States,” James Clapper, the director, testified during an annual […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A defector from China has revealed some of the innermost secrets of the Chinese government and military, including details of its nuclear command and control system, according to American intelligence officials. Businessman Ling Wancheng disappeared from public view in California last year shortly after his brother, Ling […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s theft of millions of records on Americans was part of a Big Data spying program conducted by Beijing that has prompted the Pentagon to take new steps to secure large data concentrations. That was the assessment of U.S. Cyber Command commander Adm. Mike Rogers who … […]
In the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis’ deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague wrote to him asking about the “importance of reading and military history for officers,” many of whom found themselves “too busy to read.” His response went viral over email: … The problem with being too busy to read is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Preliminary U.S. intelligence estimates have concluded that North Korea’s fourth underground nuclear test on Tuesday involved a small explosion that could be a component of a larger-scale thermonuclear device. U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports of the underground test estimated the low yield of the detected blast […]
Special to WorldTribune.com SEOUL — North Korea said Wednesday that it successfully staged its first test of a more powerful form of a nuclear weapon, expanding the U.S.’s foreign-policy challenges and highlighting the limits of China’s ability to rein in its volatile ally. An announcer on North Korean state television said in a midday broadcast […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The CIA was fooled by scores of double agents pretending to be working for the agency but secretly loyal to communist spy agencies during the Cold War and beyond, according to a former CIA analyst, operations officer, and historian. The large-scale deception included nearly 100 fake CIA […]