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In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the country's top officials in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. On May 25, President Biden's special envoy for Iran told the Senate that the prospects for returning to the Obama-era deal meant to curb Iran’s nuclear program are "tenuous at best." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) **FILE**

Biden’s struggling Iran policy faces heat from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Punish Intelligence officials like Brennan for meddling in presidential elections Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Punish former intel officials who abuse their positions to meddle in presidential elections

By Fred Fleitz

A Ukrainian soldier checks a destroyed Russian tank, in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Apr. 1, 2022. Talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine resumed Friday, as another attempt to rescue civilians from the shattered and encircled city of Mariupol broke down and Russia accused the Ukrainians of a cross-border helicopter attack on an oil depot. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Intel failure: U.S. misjudged Russian weaknesses, Ukrainian strengths before the war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

DNI: China still blocking virus origin probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. The just-concluded Winter Olympics werent China's big event of the year, internally, at least. For the Communist Party, that comes this fall at a major meeting that will likely cement Xi Jinping's position as one of the nation's most powerful leaders in its seven decades of Communist rule. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

China shared U.S. intelligence on Ukraine crisis with Russia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Mohamed bin Hamad Al-Thani, left, Chairman of the 2022 bid committee, and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, hold the World Cup trophy in front of FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke after the announcement that Qatar will host the 2022 soccer World Cup, on Dec. 2, 2010, in Zurich, Switzerland. Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of an aggressive effort to win and hold on to the 2022 World Cup tournament, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) **FILE**

World Cup host Qatar used ex-CIA officer to spy on FIFA

By Alan Suderman - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Loss of Chinese agents undercuts U.S. COVID-19 origin probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Fu Cong, a Foreign Ministry director-general, speaks at a briefing for foreign journalists at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. China went on the offensive Wednesday ahead of the release of a U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus, bringing out the senior official to accuse the United States of politicizing the issue by seeking to blame China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Experts on WHO team say search for COVID-19 origins has stalled

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference after his meeting with U.S President Joe Biden at the "Villa la Grange" in Geneva, Switzerland in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-U.S. counterintel chief: Russia could halt cyber strikes ‘in one moment’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

COVID-19 origin dissent ‘suppressed’ by intelligence community, House GOP report finds

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, center, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Russia is hosting a peace conference for Afghanistan, bringing together government representatives and their Taliban adversaries along with regional observers in a bid to help jump-start the country's stalled peace process. The one-day gathering Thursday is the first of three planned international conferences ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, a date fixed under a year-old agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Biden administration backs away from report of Russian bounties to kill U.S. soldiers

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Director Avril Haines of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) testifies during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Avril Haines, William Burns rip WHO report on COVID-19 origins

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP, File) ** FILE **

Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 30, 2010, photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter, right, at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) ** FILE **

Hunter Biden case turns intelligence professionals into partisan activists

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 7, 2020, file photo, President-elect Joe Biden, right, embraces his son Hunter Biden, left, in Wilmington, Del. Biden’s son Hunter says he has learned from federal prosecutors that his tax affairs are under investigation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Hunter Biden probe politicized by intelligence community

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe looks on as President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Ratcliffe says China poses greatest threat to America

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi pays his respect to the body of slain scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh among his family, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Iranian officials have blamed Israel for the killing of Fakhrizadeh who led Tehran's disbanded military nuclear program. (Mizan News Agency via AP)

Iran newspaper: Strike Haifa if Israel killed scientist

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2018, file photo, then-Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth Franklin "Frank" McKenzie Jr. speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Gen. Frank McKenzie says while Russia bounty intelligence ‘wasn’t proved,’ it was ‘very worrisome’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Mark Frerichs, a contractor from Illinois, poses in Iraq in this undated photo obtained from Twitter that he would include with his resume when job hunting. Frerichs was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020. Early efforts to locate him have been shrouded in mystery and his disappearance has been the subject of minimal public discussion by the U.S. government. The Associated Press has learned that in the days following Frerichs’ capture, Navy commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network while the U.S. intelligence community tried to track the cellphones of Frerich and his captors. (Twitter via AP)

SEALs tried to locate U.S. citizen taken by Afghan militants

By James Laporta and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump confirms U.S. investigating reports virus came from Chinese lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times