The Central Intelligence Agency’s hackers have developed tools letting them break into devices to monitor conversations and messages, according to documents released by WikiLeaks that — if true — could expose U.S. operations in countries from North Korea to Iran. “If they can hack into the CIA they can hack into anyone,” Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said of WikiLeaks.
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Father of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen raid to Trump…
The father of William “Ryan” Owens, the Navy SEAL Team 6 member who was the first US combat death during US President Donald Trump’s presidency in January, urged the Trump administration to not “hide behind my son’s death” and provide answers. In an interview with the Miami Herald , Bill Owens, also a Navy veteran, called for an investigation into the raid that left his son, an eight-year-old girl, and as many as 29 civilians dead.
McCain: Dictators get started by ‘suppressing the free press’
Senator John McCain defended the free press on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media. I hate the press, I hate you especially,” McCain told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Saturday .
John McCain just spent 9 minutes picking apart Trump’s…
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona just spent nine minutes picking apart President Donald Trump’s worldview without mentioning his name once at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday. “In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism; not this year,” McCain said of the event’s provocative title.
Withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership shifts U.S. role in world economy
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the executive order on withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership after signing it as White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stands at his side in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Jan. 23, 2017. President Trump’s cancellation Monday of an agreement for a sweeping trade deal with Asia began recasting America’s role in the global economy, leaving an opening for other countries to flex their muscles.
McCain calls for sanctions on Russia over election actions
U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., center, speaks as U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., left, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, listen during the meeting with Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite at the President palace in Vilnius,… Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite, right, welcomes U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. during a welcome ceremony in the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016.