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    GAFFNEY: On Obama's watch

    On Feb. 5, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show. In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as Madonna's performance at half-time. In his interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Mr. Obama responded oddly to concerns raised last week by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community. They testified on Capitol Hill that the Iranian mullahs appear to be planning attacks on the United States.

  • FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III (left) and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to assess current and future national security threats. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Cyberthreats to national security 'profound,' officials say

    Chinese theft of U.S. intellectual property through hacking and computer espionage is "the greatest pillaging of wealth in history," Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper told lawmakers Thursday.

  • ** FILE ** Jayashri Srikantiah, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, holds up copies of records showing passengers checked on no-fly lists from San Francisco International Airport, as plaintiffs Jan Adams, right, and Rebecca Gordon, center, look on during a news conference in San Francisco, in this April 22, 2003, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

    U.S. No-Fly list doubles in 1 year

    Even as the Obama administration says it's close to defeating al Qaeda, the size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, the Associated Press has learned.

  • Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess (left), Defense Intelligence Agency director; CIA Director David H. Petraeus (center); and James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    Officials: Long-term commitment for U.S. forces in Afghanistan

    Top U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials Thursday downplayed talk of an early American pullout from Afghanistan, saying U.S. combat forces will stay there until the end of 2014, and there is a commitment for much longer than that.

  • 'Hell to pay' if terrorists' link to drug cartels isn't checked

    Collaboration between Latin American drug cartels and groups such as Iran's Quds Force and the Islamic terror group Hezbollah is growing "far faster than most policymakers in Washington, D.C., choose to admit," a former U.S. intelligence official testified Tuesday.

  • Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens to a question while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to assess current and future national security threats. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Inside the Ring

    U.S. intelligence agencies threw cold water on the President Obama's thus-far-unsuccessful effort to "reset" relations with Russia by making concessions to Moscow.

  • Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (center left) talks with her Afghan counterpart, Zalmai Rasool (center right), during their meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)

    Afghan Taliban deny they're ready to talk peace

    The Taliban denied Wednesday that the movement is planning direct talks with the Afghan government to end the 10-year-old war, while a leaked NATO report suggested the insurgents are confident they will regain power after international troops leave.

  • FBI Director Robert Mueller (left) and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) are greeted by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in the Hart Senate Office Building in D.C., before a hearing on worldwide threats. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Intelligence chief: Growing risk of Iran attacking U.S. targets

    There's a growing risk that Iran might launch terror attacks against U.S. targets, including in the homeland, as tensions rise over Tehran's nuclear program and the U.S.-led sanctions against the Islamic regime, according the U.S. intelligence chief.

  • An anti-Syrian regime protesters wears a revolutionary flag on his back during a protest outside the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo, extended the much-criticized observers mission for another month, officials from the 22-member organization said. The League decided to add more observers and provide them with additional resources, the officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

    Assad's fall could solve Iraqi weapons mystery

    If Syria's regime falls, the U.S. will be in a better position to answer one of the lingering questions from the long Iraq War: Did Baghdad ship weapons of mass destruction components to Syria before the 2003 American-led invasion?

  • **FILE** New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (right) speaks Dec. 29, 2011, at a news conference in Brooklyn, N.Y., as Mayor Michael Bloomberg listens. (Associated Press)

    Authority for NYPD-CIA collaboration questioned

    The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs, the Associated Press has learned. Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said authorized the unusual assignment.

  • World Scene

    Myanmar's government signed a cease-fire agreement Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step toward ending one of the world's longest-running insurgencies and meeting a key condition for better ties with the West.

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    BLANK: America's drone in Iran's neighborhood

    Iran's capture of an American drone compels us to revisit some difficult, unwelcome but fundamental security issues. If Iran downed a sophisticated U.S. drone, as it claims, that would represent a monumental Iranian intelligence coup in learning how to override the drone's command-and-control system and then guide it safely down to earth.

  • Inside China

    The late Chinese scientist and defector Qian Xuesen won lavish praise from Chinese Communist Party leaders in early December on 100th anniversary of his birth.

  • Hackers set to dump intel-analysis firm's emails

    Security analysts are bracing for the release of millions of emails that computer hackers stole from a U.S. intelligence-analysis firm whose clients include federal agencies, large corporations and foreign countries.

  • Kim Jong-un, the youngest son and designated successor to the late Kim Jong-il as North Korean dictator, salutes during the funeral for his father in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo)

    Inside the Ring

    U.S. intelligence agencies are busy assessing the new power structure emerging in North Korea as Kim Jong-un, son of the late Kim Jong-il, takes over.

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