Julian Barnes

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Aishvarya Kavi |Julian Barnes |Devlin Barrett

A 27-year-old woman was shot by security guards after she drove erratically onto the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters complex in Langley, Va., early Thursday and ignored their attempts to stop her, according to people briefed on the episode.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Charlie Savage |Julian Barnes |Maggie Haberman

An assessment contradicted a presidential proclamation. A political appointee demanded a redo, then pushed for changes to the new analysis, too. New emails document how a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, ordered analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating President Trump and Ms. Gabbard from being attacked for the administration's claim that Venezuela's government controls a criminal gang.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Julian Barnes |Maggie Haberman |Charlie Savage

The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim Trump made to invoke a wartime deportation law. A top adviser to the director of national intelligence ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela's government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the White House's justification for deporting migrants, according to officials.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Haberman |Julian Barnes

President Trump has wondered over time about whether the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was created after the 9/11 attacks, should continue to exist. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is moving the assembly of the president's daily intelligence brief from the C.I.A. headquarters to her own complex, according to officials briefed on the move.

3 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Julian Barnes

After the Cold War ended, and again after the Sept. 11 attacks, a string of C.I.A. directors and congressional overseers pushed the agency to diversify its ranks. The drive had little to do with any sense of racial justice, civil rights or equity. It was, rather, a hard-nosed national security decision. The agency’s leaders had come to believe that having analysts from an array of backgrounds would lead to better conclusions. Officers with cultural knowledge would see things others might miss.