GOP senators suddenly don’t care if anyone’s in charge of national security
Republicans were adamant in 2017 that Trump’s national security team be ready to go on ‘day one.’ For Biden? Not so much.
By Amy Lieu - January 19, 2021Republicans were adamant in 2017 that Trump’s national security team be ready to go on ‘day one.’ For Biden? Not so much.
By Amy Lieu - January 19, 2021‘Together, these public servants will restore America globally, its global leadership, and its moral leadership,’ Biden said.
By Associated Press - November 25, 2020Biden and his team are working through a series of backup options to prepare for the challenges he will face as president.
By Associated Press - November 19, 2020More than 130 members of the Secret Service either have the coronavirus or are in quarantine, thanks to Trump’s superspreader rallies.
By Emily Singer - November 13, 2020Americans have lost more jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than during the entire Great Recession.
By Associated Press - November 03, 2020The Department of Justice claimed in a lawsuit that John Bolton had divulged classified information in his upcoming book.
By Josh Israel - June 18, 2020More than 80 national security experts have endorsed Vice President Joe Biden to ‘reverse the course of American national security decline.’
By Dan Desai Martin - March 19, 2020GOP Rep. Doug Collins told Fox Business News he’s not interested in leading the intelligence community.
By Emily Singer - February 21, 2020A lawyer for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, said Vindman was ‘asked to leave for telling the truth’ and because he ‘frightened the powerful.’
By Associated Press - February 07, 2020A Chinese national was arrested for trespassing at Trump’s Florida club and refusing to leave.
By Associated Press - December 19, 2019A group of House Republicans engaged in the stunt brought cellphones into a secure area where electronics are banned for security purposes — with Trump’s approval.
By Emily Singer - October 23, 2019According to reports, Trump himself ordered the move out of frustration over leaks.
By Associated Press - October 11, 2019‘A responsible whistleblower makes all Americans safer.’
By Dan Desai Martin - October 07, 2019Experts from both Republican and Democratic administrations signed a public statement backing the effort this week.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 27, 2019Robert C. O’Brien told Larry King in December 2016 that he would not want the job of national security adviser.
By Oliver Willis - September 18, 2019John Bolton is out as national security adviser. He and Trump disagree about who made this decision.
By Josh Israel - September 10, 2019The retired general asks, ‘What is Trump thinking?’
By Oliver Willis - July 22, 2019Ivanka Trump only has a security clearance because Trump overruled recommendations from senior administration officials.
By Emily Singer - March 06, 2019The White House has been stonewalling a House investigation into how Trump and Jared Kushner breached national security.
By Oliver Willis - March 01, 2019The rejection was overruled in a seriously sketchy fashion.
By Lisa Needham - January 25, 2019Trump’s threat to declassify sensitive intelligence puts the U.S. national security at risk — but apparently that’s a price he’s willing to pay to protect himself.
By Caroline Orr - November 29, 2018Contrary to Trump’s bragging, North Korea hasn’t scaled back its nuclear ambitions — and has been working on at least 16 previously undisclosed missile bases.
By Oliver Willis - November 12, 2018Just days after the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, the Trump administration is reportedly about to end a DHS program devoted to countering violent extremism in America.
By Caroline Orr - November 01, 2018Trump is hurting American safety and security with his decision to strip security clearances from his critics, according to former four-star Admiral and NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis.
By Oliver Willis - August 18, 2018Trump doesn’t control the media from the inside — so he’s taking a page from the modern authoritarian’s playbook and trying to control it from the outside, instead.
By Caroline Orr - August 18, 2018Top advisers are leaving in droves leave while Trump tweets incoherently about war with Syria.
By Eric Boehlert - April 12, 2018A new counterintelligence probe looking into Ivanka Trump shows that national security has taken a back seat to nepotism in the Trump White House.
By Caroline Orr - March 01, 2018