Picking Dixon as the acting Director of National Intelligence is somewhat unusual since the longtime U.S. intelligence official was appointed to her current post — principal deputy DNI — by Joe Biden.

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to advance the nomination for CIA director of former Representative John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during President Donald Trump's first term.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday evening blocked the swift confirmation of John Ratcliffe, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead

In all the arguments over whether President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence is fit for the job, it’s easy to lose sight of why it matters. It matters a lot. To speak of telling truth to power seems terribly old-fashioned these days,

President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.

Trump took the action after the former officials said in 2020 that leaks from Hunter Biden laptop could be "a Russian information operation."

Donald Trump has named the acting heads of national-security agencies—all career federal executives—to serve until Senate-confirmed nominees are in place, according to a White House press release issued soon after the inauguration on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump will suspend the security clearances for 51 national security officials that claimed Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.

On January 21, 2017, the day after his inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It was one of his first official actions as president and an opportunity to reset relations with the intelligence community.

Stacy Dixon to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Stacy Dixon is set to become President-elect Donald Trump's acting director of national intelligence, a ...

The action is an early indication of Trump's determination to exact retribution on perceived adversaries and is the latest point of tension between Trump and an intelligence community of which he has been openly disdainful.