Ryan Lovelace

U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that Iranian and Russian operatives may be considering influence operations intended to incite violence in America even after all the ballots are cast on Election Day.

When Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone left the helm after six years as head of the National Security Agency, he worried about two emergent threats: China's potential meddling in U.S. elections and deepfakes generated by ever more powerful artificial intelligence systems.

The Biden administration has considered creating a new “information czar” for national security to combat foreign disinformation operations about elections and other issues, according to White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

The Biden administration has considered creating a new “information czar” for national security to combat foreign disinformation operations about elections and other issues, according to White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Asked about creating such a post on the National Security Council on Thursday, Mr. Sullivan said the idea has been a topic of debate throughout the intelligence and defense agencies. Mr. Sullivan gave an audience at the National Defense University a rare glimpse inside the hidden debate about how to police foreign speech that the U.S. government finds abhorrent. “I think on the’czar’ [proposal], that’s something we’ve been grappling with and thinking about across the national security enterprise,”

The Russian government is behind a video showing someone destroying Pennsylvania ballots in a ploy designed to stoke fear and doubt about election results, according to U.S. intelligence analysts.

The National Security Agency’s Gilbert Herrera knows many people may not understand why his agency is funding research that could help produce an “economic weapon of mass destruction.”

As Election Day finally dawns across the country, U.S. intelligence officials believe at least three hostile foreign powers have the ability to pry inside America’s election systems, wreaking cyber havoc when voters head to the polls.

The U.S. intelligence community says it has detected an uptick in Russian active measures ahead of Tuesday's elections and issued a fresh warning that Iran is targeting former President Donald Trump for retribution.

The Justice Department announced criminal charges Friday against an alleged Iranian operative accused of plotting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.

Trilateral Commission members Eric Schmidt and the late Henry Kissinger express the endgame of fellow member Zbigniew Brzezinski's Technetronic Era, aka Technocracy: those who will control the world are the superhumans who are genetically hacked or otherwise merged with advanced technology like AI. Their book, Genesis, talks about taking intelligent design out of God's hands and giving it over to posthuman designers of co-evolution.