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I cover national security for Yahoo News, where I focus on the intelligence community, foreign policy, and other issues. Occasionally I break news and make an appearance on TV, but I thrive when I come across something interesting to investigate for a couple months and disappear down the rabbit hole. I like to look at the intelligence community like its own small town with its own unique cultures, characters, and melodramas—on top of major, world-changing successes and failures. I've dedicated months to covering diversity in the CIA and also to the major compromise of communications equipment that led to the death of sources overseas. Both are important.
What's my ideal story? An open secret in a secret community, a hidden reality that deserves to be exposed, or something that's important to a few people that should be important to a lot of people. The more color, the better. (I was a creative writing major in college.)
In my previous lives, I covered similar issues for CNN, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Intercept, and Mother Jones Magazine since graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2014.
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n July, Simone Margaritelli, an Italian security researcher, boarded a Boeing 777 in Rome headed for Dubai, a city now billing itself as a tech startup hub.
Not far from the northeastern Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi, in a typical modern Gulf villa framed on one side by an elegant swimming pool, Westerners are teaching Emiratis the tools of modern spycraft. The day starts with the basics: a 10 a.m. seminar on Sunday morning is titled "What is intelligence?"
A Donald Trump foreign policy adviser pushed government agencies to review materials from the dark web in the summer of 2016 that he thought were Hillary Clinton's deleted emails, multiple sources with direct knowledge tell CNN.
WASHINGTON - On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that supported last week's limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials.
In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers - many working nonstop for weeks - scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency's internet-based covert communications system used to interact with its informants in dark corners around the world.
On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the United States and was seizing two rural East Coast estates owned by the Russian government.
When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers - later identified as working for the Chinese
WASHINGTON - As Chinese officials face allegations of locking down information about the spread of the coronavirus, U.S. intelligence agencies have been helping in governmentwide efforts to gather information about the disease's global spread. Already, some of the best information about the coronavirus and the Chinese government's response to it is coming from military channels, according to two sources familiar with the matter.