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The Iranian judiciary announced on Tuesday that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, described as “one of the spies for the CIA and Mossad,” has been sentenced to death for giving “the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani to our enemies.”

John Brennan praised FBI Director Christopher Wray as a “remarkable” public servant and urged him to “stay strong” in the wake of revelations that he was among various Obama-era officials who may have received “unmasked” intelligence on former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. 

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have publicly said the coronavirus could have originated in a Chinese laboratory, leading taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) to compare that connection to intelligence underpinning the decision to invade Iraq after 9-11.

John Brennan, while serving as CIA director under former President Barack Obama, dismissed intelligence that Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win the U.S. presidential election in 2016, an ex-intelligence officer argued in an op-ed published on Wednesday.

The U.S. is the “collateral damage” of Chinese communist officials’ lies about the extent of the novel coronavirus outbreak within their country.

Tehran — Iran said on Thursday it had “no knowledge” of the whereabouts of a former FBI agent missing since 2007, after his family said he had died in Iranian custody.

The family of Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007 and has been held illegally by the regime since then despite numerous pleas for his release, said on Wednesday that U.S. officials believe he “died while in Iranian custody,” sometime prior to the deadly outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in Iran.

A jury has reportedly found a former CIA programmer charged with a massive data leak to WikiLeaks guilty of false statements and contempt of court but was deadlocked on more serious charges including the illegal collection and transmission of national defense information.

Obama’s national security leaders came out this week right before Super Tuesday to announce their support for former colleague Joe Biden.

Appearing Monday on CNN, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper said President Donald Trump’s desire to have administration officials that are on board with his policies reminds him of North Korea. 

Appearing Monday on CNN’s New Day, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) accused President Donald Trump of wanting a “team of sycophants” advising him and said there is no such thing as the “deep state.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Geng Shuang held a press conference on Monday in which he accused the United States of being the world’s worst sponsor of cybercrimes.

For decades, the Central Intelligence Agency was a secret owner of a Swiss encryption firm, giving U.S. officials the ability to read encoded documents from both allies and enemy nations, according to a CIA analysis obtained by the Washington Post and the German public broadcaster ZDF.

Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week” that the U.S. intelligence community was beginning to withhold documents on Ukraine from Congress.

The critically acclaimed Showtime series Homeland received secret assistance from the Obama-era Central Intelligence Agency and its then-director John Brennan, according to a new interview with the producers of the show and network executives.

Showtime’s Homeland star Mandy Patinkin launched a tirade against President Donald Trump over his attitude toward the U.S. intelligence services, describing his administration as a “cancer that affects the world globally.”

An email proves disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey personally approved an FBI effort to have the wild and unsubstantiated “golden showers” claim about President Trump included in material to be considered for publication in the U.S. Intelligence Community’s official report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Appearing Friday on CBS This Morning, former acting and deputy CIA director Michael Morell said the U.S.’s deadly airstrike on top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani will result in the deaths of American civilians.

“The president is a crime victim,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, in an interview on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had hit out against the creative team behind the Amazon Studios movie The Report, saying the movie unfairly portrays CIA analysts as villains in its recounting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s investigation into the use of torture following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Trump retweeted a tweet that contained a link to an article that named the alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “whistleblower.”

The FISA court “should be eliminated,” recommended Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) in a Thursday interview with Breitbart News.

Democrats and the left corrupt American tradition and institutions in their campaign against President Donald Trump, said Peter Schweizer.

Lest anyone be in any doubt about Iran’s continued hostile feelings towards “great satan” America, a spokesman on Friday called U.S. foreign policy “delusional” and its chief diplomat a “loudspeaker for bullying, deceit and disdain.”

The federal prosecutor probing the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax has requested “emails, call logs and other documents” from John Brennan, former President Barack Obama’s CIA director.

Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster declared in an op-ed Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not a “broken institution” and criticizing it threatens the “rule of law,” in an attempt to quell public outcry over agents’ misconduct during the 2016 election.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believed Christopher Steele’s infamous dossier alleging Trump-Russia collusion was “internet rumor,” but it was still included in an assessment briefed to Trump.

President Donald Trump asked Pentagon officials why America bears the burden of militarily defending Europe, said White House biographer Doug Wead, author of Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Iran’s security forces made eight arrests Thursday of people it accuses of having direct links to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and orchestrating the recent riots over gasoline prices that have convulsed the country.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA case agent was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for an espionage conspiracy with China.

We have conducted an in-depth analysis of Obama-era White House visitor logs, and we have learned a good deal about the people who controversial CIA employee Eric Ciaramella met with while assigned to the White House.

The legal team for the “whistleblower” in a statement on Thursday declined to confirm or deny that he is likely CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella.

Former CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin lauded the “Deep State” for its role in the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

RealClear Investigations published the name of the person believed to be the whistleblower against President Trump: Eric Ciaramella.