Accuracy in Media

From NBC News: President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to deliver to him a dossier of the evidence that the Russian government used cyber attacks and other means to intervene in the 2016 election, possibly with the idea of making more information public, a senior intelligence official told NBC News. White House counterterrorism […]

Several investigations have been launched into accusations of skewing reports about the threat of ISIS by the U.S. Central Command, the Free Beacon reported.

Holy smokes, that’s a lot of sources: More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned. The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open […]

The Washington Examiner with the latest: Tensions between the State Department and the intelligence community are mounting as agencies struggle over which of Hillary Clinton’s private emails should be classified. While Clinton’s campaign has attempted to capitalize on the disagreements — blaming recent controversy on simple bureaucratic infighting — the dispute has highlighted the volume […]

As the Washington Examiner noted: Hillary Clinton’s attorney has been allowed to keep emails now known to be classified, but the inspector general of the intelligence community was denied access to the same emails upon request, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.

The USA Freedom Act supposedly revamps the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance apparatus and practices, which Obama signed into law last night.

Jake Tapper, who recently withdrew from a Clinton Foundation panel after a brief controversy, was surprised by Obama’s defense of renewing the Patriot Act.

It wasn’t a filibuster, but an 11-hour stand on why the Senate should let the Patriot Act lapse, or parts of it.

As usual, the government is slow to react to counter social media campaigning and recruiting by ISIS (also known as the Islamic State).

Disgraced U.S. Army general and ex-CIA chief David Petraeus was sentenced this past week, and as Fox News reported: “Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation plus a $100,000 fine for giving her classified material while she was […]