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In November, a federal grand jury subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page as part of the wide-ranging probe.—
Jacob Rosen,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026 -
By the time of the Assads’ encounter at the Sandbar, however, that focus was expanding decisively to include counterintelligence.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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All defendants maintained their innocence and appealed after a two-year trial that opened a Pandora's box of unwanted revelations about papal ransom payments to Islamic militants, Vatican vendettas, espionage and other dirty laundry of the Holy See.—
NICOLE WINFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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All defendants maintained their innocence and appealed after a two-year trial that opened a pandora’s box of unwanted revelations about papal ransom payments to Islamic militants, Vatican vendettas, espionage and other dirty laundry of the Holy See.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The latest firings included experts in counterespionage matters.—
Perry Stein,
Arkansas Online,
28 Feb. 2026
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The employee filed the complaint with the division director, Robert Turner, a 22-year veteran of the bureau who previously held roles in counterterrorism and counterespionage.—
William Turton,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2025
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In the decades since, multiple presidents have relied on that congressional mandate to justify a grab bag of military counterterrorism activities, including the detention of people who had not been convicted of a crime at Guantanamo Bay and the secret wiretapping of Americans.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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So prosecutors are being forced to try other methods to establish who fired the gun, including phone tracing, interviews and wiretapping.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
22 Feb. 2026
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Four men were arrested in London on Friday on suspicion of spying for Iran, according to the Metropolitan Police.—
Frank Andrews,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Joani Reid, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing Labor Party, issued a statement indicating that her husband was among three unnamed individuals British police arrested this week on suspicion of spying for China.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Mar. 2026
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Roughly 400 vessels were spotted operating in the Gulf of Oman, as a massive backlog of ships waited near the chokepoint, according to a report from maritime intelligence firm Windward on Sunday.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s intelligence minister, was targeted in a strike conducted by the IDF in Tehran, Iran.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Mar. 2026
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