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Newer News: February 2018

January 2018 Intelligence News

• FBI Statement on HPSCI Memo, news release, January 31. "As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."
• Temporary Spending Bill Relieves Intel Agencies From Oversight by Charles S. Clark, Government Executive, January 24. "Against the wishes of leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the newly enacted continuing resolution that funds the government until Feb. 8 contains a provision that could allow intelligence agencies to transfer funds to new operations without congressional approval."
• Provision in shutdown-ending bill stokes fear of oversight-free intelligence spending by Steven Nelson, Washington Examiner, January 23. "A three-week spending bill that ended this month's government shutdown allegedly allows tens of billions of dollars in 'black budget' appropriations to be sloshed among secret intelligence agency programs without longstanding congressional notification requirements."
• Former CIA Officer Arrested for Retaining Classified Information, Justice Department news release, January 16. "Jerry Chun Shing Lee, aka Zhen Cheng Li, 53, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested last night on charges of unlawful retention of national defense information." (Complaint Affidavit)
• Hawaii Statement on Erroneous Missile Alert, Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, January 13. "HI-EMA) has confirmed that there was no ballistic missile and that there were no computer hacks to the HI-EMA system. The cause of the false alarm was human error. "