ATLANTA — With the US presidential election barely a month away, former vice president Joe Biden and his advisers are devising his national-security policy and creating shortlists to fill the Cabinet’s ranking positions in the event that he defeats President Donald Trump.

ATLANTA – Intelligence agencies are used to making headlines when they fail to do their job.

ATLANTA — US law-enforcement officials are no strangers to politically motivated investigations. From Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s infamous “Red Raids” in 1919-20 to FBI Director J.

ATLANTA — The White House is trying to prevent the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from viewing a whistleblower complaint detailing President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating the son of former

ATLANTA — To understand what is happening in authoritarian regimes, be they in Moscow, Havana, Beijing or Pyongyang, analysts always pay close attention to the rise and fall of intelligence chiefs.

ATLANTA — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prioritised pomp over policy while hosting US President Donald Trump this week. The one exception was the issue of North Korea, which recently conducted more short-range missile tests off its east coast.

ATLANTA — For more than two years, US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on the world’s authoritarians, disrespected America’s democratic allies and pursued an ego-driven effort to solve the Gordian knot of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.

ATLANTA — Despite his seemingly limitless capacity for vindictiveness, it would be a mistake to interpret US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan as only his latest vendetta for lèse-majesté.

As the United States marks the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election, the question of how Trump won still commands attention, with Russia’s role moving increasingly to centre stage.Each new revelation in the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign