Government Operations

Intelligence Panel Investigates National Security Breaches

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convenes a closed briefing Wednesday evening on what it describes only as "certain intelligence matters" — the...

Defense

Congress Shapes Future Missile Defense Strategy

Congress is preparing to shape the next generation of American missile defense — and the stakes couldn't be higher. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on...

Defense

National Security: "Fraying, Being Dismantled, or Falling Into Disrepair"

Why it matters: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a 9/11 Commission hearing on May 20 that served as a public reckoning with a...

Intelligence

Congress Faces Growing Threats From Foreign Cyberattacks

A newly updated Congressional Research Service report cataloguing major cyberattacks 2012-2025 offers Congress its most comprehensive public accounting yet...

Government Operations

Intelligence Committee Confronts Leaked Classified Assessments And Misleading Public Narrative

Classified intelligence assessments that have leaked to the press in recent weeks paint a picture sharply at odds with the administration's public narrative...

Government Operations

Intelligence Committee Examines Agency Tensions, Oversight Crisis

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meets behind closed doors on May 20 at 219 Hart Senate Office Building, and the timing could hardly be more...

Intelligence

Senate Demands Answers on Pentagon's Mysterious Weapon

The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to receive a classified briefing on anomalous health incidents on May 20, 2026, a session that arrives as the...

Congress

Are Intelligence Reforms Twenty-Five Years Later Still Effective?

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks reshaped the American intelligence apparatus, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is...

Intelligence

Congress Defends Intelligence Sharing With States

Congress is moving to lock in — by statute — what the Trump administration is trying to dissolve by budget. The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on...

Congress

Intelligence Committee Addresses Leak And Classified Threats

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convenes Tuesday for a closed briefing on classified intelligence matters, a session that arrives weeks after a...

Intelligence

Can the Army Close the Critical Drone Gap?

A new Congressional Research Service report on the U.S. Army's Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system puts a sharp lens on one of the Pentagon's most...

Intelligence

Dark Eagle Hypersonic Weapon Nears Operational Deployment Amid Policy Contradictions

The U.S. Army's Dark Eagle hypersonic weapon has arrived at a crossroads. After years of testing setbacks and missed deadlines, the Long-Range Hypersonic...

Intelligence

North Korea Rapidly Expanding Nuclear Arsenal With Russian Support

A new Congressional Research Service report on North Korea nuclear weapons and missile programs lands at a moment when U.S. policy toward Pyongyang appears...

Intelligence

House Passes Clean FISA Extension, Handing Trump a Surveillance Win

The House voted 261-111 on April 29 to pass S. 4465, a clean 18-month extension of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — handing the...

Intelligence

Can Congress Do Anything to Curb Threats to Digital Infrastructure?

America's critical digital infrastructure — the data centers storing sensitive federal data, the telecommunications networks carrying classified...

Government Operations

Senate GOP Uses Arctic Frost Hearing to Press Biden-Era FBI Targeting Claims

Why it matters: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on Tuesday, April 21, examining what Republicans call a coordinated...

Government Operations

FBI Budget Hearing Amid Funding and Surveillance Scrutiny

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is set to hold a closed FBI budget hearing on April 28, examining the FBI's Fiscal Year 2027 funding...