Ellen Nakashima

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017.

Trump asked acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe whom he voted for during Oval Office meeting shortly after firing Comey

August 22, 2019 at 7:30 a.m.

Shortly after President Donald Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau's acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting. The two men exchanged pleasantries,...

In this Nov. 14, 2017, photo, Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, arrives for an appearance before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. A document produced by the House Intelligence Committee's GOP majority focuses on discrediting Fusion GPS, according to sources.

GOP memo on surveillance ‘abuse’ targets dossier; Democrats call it ‘misleading’

August 22, 2019 at 7:27 a.m.

A document described by House Republicans as a top-secret memo about surveillance "abuse" contains talking points focused on discrediting Fusion GPS, the firm that hired a British ex-spy to compile...

In this June 6, 2013 file photo, a sign stands outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has detected specific activity by the Russian spy agency, the FSB, targeting American energy firms, according to two officials.

U.S. faults Russian government in nuclear plant, energy firm hackings

August 22, 2019 at 5:03 a.m.

Russian government hackers were behind recent cyber-intrusions into the business systems of U.S. nuclear power and other energy companies in what appears to be an effort to assess their networks,...

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, center, at the White House on Feb. 12, 2017.

Justice Dept. warned that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail

August 22, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the...

President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during his farewell speech at McCormick Place on January 10, 2017 in Chicago.

As term closes, Obama cracks down on companies

June 6, 2018 at 1:19 p.m.

The Obama administration in its waning days is taking companies to task in a way that it generally did not in its early years - it is getting corporations to...

‘He’s got to get control of the ship again’: How tensions at FBI will persist after election

August 22, 2019 at 1:47 a.m.

Deep divisions inside the FBI and Justice Department over how to handle investigations dealing with Hillary Clinton will probably fester even after Tuesday's presidential election and pose a significant test...

The National Security Agency's campus in Fort Meade, Md.

NSA use of software ?aws for hacking posed risk to cybersecurity

August 22, 2019 at 12:43 a.m.

To penetrate the computers of foreign targets, the National Security Agency relies on software flaws that have gone undetected in the pipes of the Internet. For years, security experts have...

FBI: ‘Simply too early’ to say if anything valuable is on San Bernardino iPhone

June 21, 2019 at 3:51 a.m.

After a protracted and very public dispute between the FBI and Apple, federal authorities said last week that investigators were able to access a locked iPhone used by one of...

A Chinese businessman pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. military information related to Boeing's C-17 aircraft, similar to the one shown here.

Guilty plea in Chinese Boeing cyberhacking case

June 12, 2018 at 7:17 a.m.

A Chinese businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles to helping two Chinese military hackers carry out a damaging series of thefts of sensitive military secrets from...

A fatal wrong turn suspected at NSA

June 24, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

The overnight tryst began in Baltimore, with three men, two dressed as women. It continued at a motel on U.S. 1, and when one of the men woke up on...

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