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A Chinese officer, top right, looks as members of honor guard rehearse for a welcome ceremony held by Chinese President Xi Jinping for visiting Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis at the main entrance of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

FBI eyes Chinese hacking of dams database

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

In this Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro, as it rains during a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. (AP Photo/File) ** FILE **

Obama hails ‘new chapter’ in diplomatic relations with Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The Islamic State group, which has employed a broad range of strategies to subdue Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq, is pushing its war for a caliphate into North Africa. Younger jihadis in particular appear to be mimicking the militants' rhetoric and brutality. (Associated Press)

Islamic State opening front in North Africa

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, which is consistent with AP reporting, shows a convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Iraq's Anbar Province. The Islamic State was originally al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, but it used Syria's civil war to vault into something more powerful. It defied orders from al-Qaida's central command and expanded its operations into Syria, ostensibly to fight to topple Assad. But it has turned mainly to conquering territory for itself, often battling other rebels who stand in the way. (AP Photo/militant website, File)

Interpol, cruise firms share jihadi watch lists

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. By President Barack Obama&#8217;s own admission, the U.S. bombing campaign against militants in Syria could help President Bashar Assad cling to power. Critics say Obama&#8217;s strategy does little to address the conditions that have allowed the Islamic State group to thrive and could leave Syria a hotbed for extremism. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama knew for months of intel community’s concerns about Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Muslim women perform an evening prayer called 'tarawih' marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan n Jakarta, Indonesia in June. Fears about the threat posed by the Islamic State are mounting not only in the West but also in the capital of the world's most populous Muslim nation. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia cracks down on suspected jihadists as Islamic State fears mount

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 2, 2013 file photo, a view of an oil field under control of Kurdish militias near the town of Deriq, in a Kurdish area of Syria, near the border with Iraq. The Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf nations for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts. The group, which has taken over large sections of Syria and Iraq, controls as many as 11 oil fields in both countries, analysts say. It is selling oil and other goods through generations-old smuggling networks under the noses of some of the same governments it is fighting: Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Turkey and Jordan. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Islamic State group’s war chest is growing daily

Associated Press

This March 23, 2008 photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. The Obama administration has offered a wide range of assessments of the threat to U.S. national security posed by Islamic State extremists in an area straddling eastern Syrian and northern and western Iraq, and whose actions include last week’s beheading of American journalist James Foley. Some officials say the group is more dangerous than al-Qaida. Yet intelligence assessments say it currently couldn’t pull off a complex, 9-11-style attack on the U.S. or Europe. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office)

At heart of Syria fears, extremists returning home

Associated Press

Current and former intelligence officials are furious at the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat. They say the panel did not interview the senior managers of the interrogation program launched after the Sept. 11 attacks nor the CIA directors who oversaw it. (Associated Press)

Senate panel didn’t interview CIA directors, key managers for torture report

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

A pro-Russian rebel holds a gun passing by plane wreckage as members of the OSCE mission to Ukraine arrive for a media briefing at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) ** FIL E**

U.S. intelligence nearly certain pro-Russian separatists downed Malaysian Airlines flight

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Image: Twitter, Islamic State of Syria and the Levant

U.S. intelligence to ISIL: Please keep using Twitter, YouTube and Instagram

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Associated Press/File)

Germany demands ouster of U.S. spy chief

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

CIA blamed for Iraq intel failure, ISIS rise

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** In this May 28, 2014, photo, paramilitary policemen march out of Tiananmen Gate to clear tourists from the area for a flag-lowering ceremony on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

GSA exec with top-secret clearance didn’t disclose China trip, past felonies

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Shawn Henry (Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times)

Intel agencies don’t share cyber threats that could harm companies, ex-FBI official says

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

James B. Comey was confirmed by the Senate to become FBI director Monday via a 93-1 vote, with Sen. Rand Paul the only dissenter. Mr. Comey, who served as deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, succeeds Robert S. Mueller III. "James Comey has big shoes to fill," said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy. (Associated Press)

FBI expects ‘diaspora’ of jihadists out of Syria

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

South Korean and U.S. Marines aim their machine guns during the U.S.-South Korea joint landing exercises called Ssangyong, part of the Foal Eagle military exercises, in Pohang, South Korea. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: North Korea missile test coming

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, about the terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Ex-CIA leader Morell denies role in Benghazi ‘cover-up’ during heated Hill hearing

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

Inside the Ring: U.S. fears Russia planning to federalize Ukraine, alarming Congress

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Experts say NSA rules leave privacy vulnerable

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press