Top US intelligence officials to testify on Russian hacking

Senior US intelligence officials face questions at a Senate hearing that will be dominated by the intelligence community's The Armed Services Committee's cyber threats hearing on Thursday comes a day before the president-elect is to be briefed by the CIA and FBI directors -- along with the director of national intelligence -- on the investigation into Russia's alleged hacking efforts. Trump has been deeply critical of their findings, even appearing to back controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's contention that Russia did not provide him with hacked Democratic emails.

Trump reportedly plans to revamp top intelligencies agencies

President-elect intends to restructure CIA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, amid more social media attacks on intel community over Russia hacking assessments President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday, December 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. President-elect Donald Trump, a fierce critic of the US intelligence community in recent weeks, is planning to restructure two top spy agencies once he takes office later this month, people familiar with the planning told US media on Wednesday.

Assange accuses Obama of sabotaging Trump

Julian Assange has accused the Obama administration of trying to "delegitimise" Donald Trump's impending US presidency over the alleged hacking of election emails. Australian, Assange, who has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012 for fear of being extradited to the US, was speaking to the Fox News channel's Sean Hannity after Barack Obama identified Russia as almost certainly being responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee .

The Cold War, Continued: Post-Election Russophobia

Corporate TV news anchors including MSNBC's Chris Hayes are reporting as fact-with fuming indignation-that Russia not only sought to influence the U.S. election but to throw the vote to Donald Trump. The main accusation is that the DNC and Podesta emails leaked through WikiLeaks were provided by state-backed Russian hackers .

Schumer calls for full congressional investigation of Russian role in elections

The CIA's findings that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency are both “stunning and not surprising,” the next leader of Senate Democrats said, raising the need for Congress to conduct a full investigation. The statement from Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., issued Saturday morning, was in response to a Washington Post story that intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee to boost Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton's chances.

.com | WikiLeaks’ Assange questioned by prosecutors

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned by prosecutors on Monday at the Ecuadoran embassy in London in the latest twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him. Swedish prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, who will attend while Assange is questioned by an Ecuadoran prosecutor entered the embassy building shortly before 10:00 GMT, an AFP photographer said.

Merkel’s migrant U-turn: Germany wants to STOP refugees from…

Killer caught on video in his torture chamber: Chilling video shows Craiglist killer preparing chains and weapons in dungeon where he tortured a pregnant woman for five days, then murdered her Democrat staffers helped CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper prepare for interviews with Trump, new batch of 8,000 WikiLeaks emails reveals Are YOU middle class? Here's how much you have to earn to be considered in the bracket in the U.S. It's going to the wire: Clinton will campaign at MIDNIGHT as fierce election battle with Trump goes beyond the eleventh hour Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway calls the Clinton email investigation a 'hot mess' - and denies that The Donald's not allowed to touch his Twitter account On a knife-edge: Clinton's lead is wafer-thin with just a day to go as a series of polls give her a margin of no more than four points 'Did you grab 'em by the p***y, ... (more)

Comey considered a ‘bad choice’ for FBI post by Clinton aide

A senior aide to Hillary Clinton privately dismissed FBI Director James Comey as "a bad choice" in October 2015, according to newly released emails from WikiLeaks. The blunt assessment foreshadowed the dramatic tension that has escalated between Comey and the Democratic presidential candidate in the final days before the election.

7 things to know now: Debate night; WikiLeaks without the net; new Macs on the way; Social Security

Chris Wallace of Fox news is the moderator for the debate set for 9 p.m. at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Barack Obama's half-brother, Malik Obama, and Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith who was killed in the raid in Benghazi, will be Trump's guests.

A big reason emails from WikiLeaks aren’t as damaging for Hillary Clinton? Donald Trump

When Donald Trump charges that the media are plotting against him, he often points to the hacked private emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, now available for the world to see on WikiLeaks. In another presidential election, they just might be.

Mystery swirls around Assange’s status at Ecuadorean Embassy

Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London abruptly cut him off from the internet. The news adds another layer of intrigue to an extraordinary campaign.

WikiLeaks says Assange’s internet link ‘severed’ by Ecuador

WikiLeaks has blamed Ecuador for cutting off founder Julian Assange's internet access while he is holed up at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, and while his group is releasing thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. Assange has been at the embassy for more than four years after skipping bail to avoid being extradited over sex crimes allegations.