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Brett Forrest

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National Security Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Journalist at Freelance

National security reporter @WSJ. Author, LOST SON, an Amazon Editor's Pick: Best Nonfiction. Order here: https://t.co/LlcN7Xa4Di.

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  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Brett Forrest

    WASHINGTON—The warning by Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, couldn’t have been graver: “Political elite warmongers” have brought the world closer to the “the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before,” she said.

  • 4 weeks ago | cn.wsj.com | Brett Forrest

    美国司法部称,一名国防情报局(DIA)雇员被控试图向外国政府传递机密情报,并主动提出充当间谍,原因是他不认同特朗普政府的“价值观”。DIA文职信息技术人员Nathan Vilas Laatsch于周四在弗吉尼亚州北部被捕。此前,美国联邦调查局(FBI)进行了为期三个月的调查。据称,在此期间,他将一个存有机密文件的U盘留在一处公园,供一个“友好”的外国政府取走。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Brett Forrest

    FBI agents posing as handlers allegedly caught employee leaving classified documents for pickup at a public parkA Defense Intelligence Agency employee was charged with attempting to pass classified intelligence to a foreign government, offering to spy because he didn’t agree “with the values” of the Trump administration, the Justice Department said.

  • 2 months ago | wsj.com | Brett Forrest |Joel Schectman

    Former Eagle Scout abandoned his life in the U.S. for Russian-occupied war zone, where he died last yearThe son of a senior Central Intelligence Agency official was killed last year in eastern Ukraine, the CIA said, after signs that he became increasingly disillusioned with the U.S. and joined the Russian military. Michael Gloss, whose mother, Juliane Gallina, is the CIA’s deputy director for digital innovation, died during an offensive in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

  • 2 months ago | flipboard.com | Brett Forrest |Joel Schectman

    1 hour agoReporting from Vatican City In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pontiff, whose simple style, pastoral vision and outsize footprint on the world stage both reinvigorated and …

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