#national-security — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #national-security, aggregated by home.social.
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A cockpit altercation aboard a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight forced an emergency diversion to Saudi Arabia, triggering immediate fears of a major terror plot. While intelligence warns of ongoing threats from lone actors and regional proxies, the evidence does not support claims of an imminent, 9/11-scale coordinated strike.
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/09/another-911-threat-is-realbut-evidence.html
#AviationSecurity #MiddleEast #Flydubai #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics
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Carry On Terror Far Right Edition by Lawson Akhigbe
Every crisis deserves a prompt, and the far right is nothing if not punctual. Five men were arrested early on a Sunday near RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base from which US B-1 bombers have flown missions against Iran, after a local farmer noticed three white vans heading towards it. Bomb disposal robots trundled about the woods, and dozens of villagers were bundled out of their homes. Nigel Farage, meanwhile, had already left the building, intellectually speaking.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/30/carry-on-terror-far-right-edition-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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Congress Weighs Risks of Hasty Cuts to Military Leadership Ranks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is shaking up the military's leadership ranks with a plan to slash one-fifth of its general and flag billets, a move that's got everyone on high alert with a January 1 deadline looming. This bold cut follows a series of directives from Hegseth aimed at streamlining the military's top brass.
#UsMilitary #MilitaryLeadership #DefensePolicy #NationalSecurity #EmergingThreats
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The scene epitomized how speculative and thinly constructed the #GOP’s allegations about #JackSmith, Trump’s foes & about the #justice system being weaponized against #Trump have been. Likewise, the GOP’s other major perjury allegation against Smith rests on a complete misreading of the evidence.
#Trump #Republicans #Senate #law #ElectionInterference #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #NationalSecurity
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#JackSmith’s recollection matches up with a game played that day.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, after clearing up the matter, said #EricSchmitt should apologize.
At the hearing, he maintained that the texts “could have obviously been related to the prosecution” in Fulton County [?]. He said he stood by calling Smith a “dirtbag.”
#Trump #Republicans #Senate #law #ElectionInterference #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #NationalSecurity
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But by this point, #JackSmith seemed to put it together. He said he was not at a game featuring the Atlanta Hawks, but rather the University of Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team – which then featured Caitlin Clark – at the University of Maryland in the Washington, DC, area.
#Trump #law #ElectionInterference #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #NationalSecurity
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Eventually, #Democrats got #EricSchmitt to allow #JackSmith to actually review the evidence – a poster featuring the texts in question. In one of them, a fellow prosecutor asks about a seat being reserved for Smith. The GOP poster showed the Atlanta Hawks’ arena.
#Trump #law #ElectionInterference #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #NationalSecurity
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To substantiate his theory, #EricSchmitt cited text messages he suggested showed #JackSmith had been at an Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024 – the day after Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis & special prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted to an affair.
Smith appeared dumbfounded, though. He denied going to a Hawks game & said he had no recollection of even being in Atlanta.
#Trump #law #ElectionInterference #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #NationalSecurity
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Why Cutting Admiral and General Slots Would Harm The Military
Pete Hegseth’s 20% Cut to Admiral and General Positions Threatens U.S. Military Readiness While it may seem like cutting 20 percent of the admiral and general slots in the Pentagon would save the country money and make the military machine more efficient, it would have the negative affect of removing experience from active military service. Promoting men to the rank of admiral and general usually takes many years of hard work, so there won't be very many qualified people willing to serve […]https://bluepress.blog/2026/09/29/why-cutting-admiral-and-general-slots-would-harm-the-military/
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Anyone else remember t bragging to visitors (after he was out of office) about the classified documents he had about attacking Iran?
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-classified-documents-audio-tape-bedminster-iran/
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"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked whether to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat."
-Jack Smith
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Canadian import ban comes into force: The products barred from entry
A truck crosses into the United States from Canada on the Gordie Howe I…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #BreakingNews:Economy #BreakingNews:Markets #businessnews #Canada #DominicLeBlanc #donaldtrump #Economy #Foreignpolicy #Governmentandpolitics #InternationalTrade #MarkCarney #Markets #nationalsecurity #Ottawa #Trade #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Washington
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Former special counsel #JackSmith testifies before #Senate #Judiciary Committee
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Jan6 #insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #SeditiousConspiracy #law #ElectionInterference
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/politics/live-news/jack-smith-testifies-senate?post-id=cmump0cr3000a3b6rr0isomk4 -
IC Brief Morning — 2026-09-29
Two concurrent foreign penetrations of US law enforcement, concealed Russian ownership of a forensic vendor holding a $12 million Secret Service contract and a breach exposing over 5,000 FBI employee records to criminal actors whose most plausible end users are foreign intelligence services, will likely prompt a federal investigation or new security requirement for IC and law enforcement vendors by October 31. Low confidence reflects the gap between a strong prosecutorial trigger and the constraints of weakened IG offices and congressional bandwidth consumed by midterms.
The exposure compounds an election security vacuum. Hegseth's directive redirects NSA, Cyber Command, DIA and NGA toward election defense without staffing, funding or deadlines, while the FBI co-deputy handling election matters departs October 2. Congressional oversight addressing both gaps before the November 3 midterms is unlikely.
Adversary cooperation between Russia, Iran and North Korea is visible across theaters, though whether Tehran and Pyongyang coordinate through Moscow or pursue parallel interests remains unsettled. A European ally raising force-protection citing multiple state actors is unlikely by October 31. A collective European statement on Iranian operations as a cross-border pattern is similarly unlikely. Allied sanctions linking DPRK crypto theft to troop deployments in Russia are very unlikely in the same window.
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In addition to the #FBI getting hacked, the #Pentagon’s personnel database breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people.
The breach included Social Security numbers & details about jobs people held.
The scope & sensitivity of the exposed information could raise #NationalSecurity concerns, particularly because the files included details about the jobs performed by #military & civilian personnel.
#InfoSec #cybersecurity #Trump #kakistocracy
https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-breach-exposed-sensitive-data-3-million-people/story?id=136832909 -
FBI Data Breach Claims Raise Safety Fears on Patel’s Watch
The FBI data breach claimed by ShinyHunters may expose agents' home addresses and family details. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and why it matters.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/trump-watch/fbi-data-breach/
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IC Brief Morning — 2026-09-28
US counterterrorism posture faces converging operational pressures from DOJ's 23,000 case declinations including 1,300+ terrorism investigations, the Burgwald-Rae reassignment from the Washington Field Office's counterterrorism division, and the disrupted explosives plot at RAF Fairford. The FBI Agents Association or named former officials will likely link the Burgwald-Rae case to broader capacity concerns within 30 days, citing the declination data or the Fairford arrests. Low confidence reflects the conjunction: it turns on a named official bridging the personnel dispute with the quantitative evidence or the Fairford catalyst.
ProPublica's declination data provides the quantitative evidence CT critics lacked. The Burgwald-Rae case gives the FBI Agents Association a personnel grievance to anchor objections. If neither thread is publicly fused with the Fairford arrests, the resource debate stays compartmentalized.
US or European officials will very likely cite Russia's NATO sabotage campaign, including the Polish Starlink arson and Romania-Moldova drone incursions, as evidence of election-infrastructure risk before November's midterms. Moderate confidence rests on a low resolution bar across a broad eligible pool in a five-week pre-election window. Absence of any such citation would signal the sabotage pattern and election-system vulnerabilities remain bureaucratically compartmentalized.