Tag: FBI

  • Nation & World

    Why Church Committee alums urged new House panel to avoid partisanship

    Fritz Schwarz, former chief counsel of the 1975-76 U.S. Senate panel known as the Church Committee, discusses what it was like to undertake the largest, most consequential investigation of U.S. intelligence in American history.

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    Members of the special Senate Committee created to investigate the CIA, FBI and other U.S. Intelligence gathering agencies in 1975.
  • Nation & World

    Rush to stop ‘Havana syndrome’

    Intelligence analysts and reporters discuss the enduring Havana syndrome.

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    U.S. Embassy in Cuba.
  • Nation & World

    What do Trump’s election denials and flurry of firings add up to?

    What is President Trump up to with his ongoing purge of top Pentagon and cybersecurity officials and his false assertions that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as the 46th president? Experts say it’s not clear yet, but intelligence and national security risks abound.

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    President Donald Trump.
  • Nation & World

    Comey defends ‘nightmare I can’t awaken from’

    During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.

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    Former FBI Director James Comey speaks with Eric Rosenbach.
  • Nation & World

    Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’

    New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.

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    Person sitting at a desk in a black and white grid
  • Nation & World

    A new hunt for Jimmy Hoffa

    Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith digs into the greatest unsolved crime in modern American history, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, to see if he can clear a man he believes has been falsely accused of driving Hoffa to his killers.

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    James Hoffa speaks with Robert F. Kennedy
  • Nation & World

    Intelligence matters

    Former intelligence officers, lawmakers, national security analysts, and top journalists discussed some of the ethical and moral issues in intelligence work and looked at the current challenges facing those in the field during a conference this week hosted by the Intelligence Project, a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the…

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    two people speaking on a panel
  • Nation & World

    Hooked on Mueller probe? Law School student’s blog posts are must-reads

    Harvard Law School student Sarah Grant, J.D. ’19, a U.S. Marine captain, is the mind behind some of the most widely discussed legal analyses on the blog Lawfare about the special counsel’s investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign was involved in Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

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    Third-year law student Sarah Grant pens blog posts breaking down current political controversies and events.
  • Nation & World

    ‘We know’ Russia hacked election

    Sen. Angus King of Maine, who serves on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, discussed the latest findings in the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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  • Nation & World

    New questions in Russia probe

    Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the Belfer Center’s Intelligence and Defense Project, assesses revelations that in June 2016 top Trump campaign officials met with Russians who claimed they could deliver damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

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  • Nation & World

    What Comey’s testimony means

    Retired judge and Harvard lecturer Nancy Gertner weighs in on legal issues surrounding former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony about President Trump.

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  • Nation & World

    The fallout from Comey’s firing

    Harvard Law School Professor Alex Whiting discusses the legal issues swirling around President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The lessons on Russian intelligence

    Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, discuss Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

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  • Nation & World

    U.S. intelligence: A ‘truth-devoted’ culture

    Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, discusses the intelligence community’s investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 election and the ongoing friction between these agencies and the administration of President Trump.

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  • Nation & World

    Apple bites back

    With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.

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  • Nation & World

    A ‘sitdown’ with Snowden

    By videoconference on Monday, Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who last year leaked more than 200,000 classified documents about U.S. surveillance efforts.

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