A panel President Barack Obama set up in August to assess the governments use of surveillance technologies hit some turbulence related to the government shutdown last week and found itself effectively frozen on Friday after its staff was furloughed, according to a person briefed on the panels operations. The five-member Review Group on Intelligence ...

A senior CIA official has warned that the foreign-sponsored war in Syria aimed at overthrowing the government of President Bashar al-Assad poses the greatest risk to US national security. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, CIA second-in-command Michael Morell said that there were now more foreign fighters from the West pouring into Syria ...