The public’s knowledge of the threat posed by Islamic extremists in Ireland is as limited as the amount of information provided to it by the authorities. As part of ongoing reports on this area, Cormac O’Keeffe was given a rare in-depth interview with the head of the Garda’s security services, Assistant Commissioner John O’Mahoney, about the reality of the situation here and what is being done about it. 

The Obama administration will likely soon release at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the attackers.

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said yesterday.

US director of national intelligence James Clapper says the cyber attack against Sony demonstrated a new threat from North Korea.

The last two Americans being held captive by North Korea have returned home.

Two American citizens are on their way home from North Korea after their release from prison there, US intelligence officials said.

President Barack Obama acknowledged that US intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.

President Barack Obama has acknowledged that US intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.

America’s intelligence chief has released more documents that tell how the National Security Agency was given the go-ahead to start collecting bulk phone and internet records in the hunt for al Qaida terrorists.

Senior US spy chiefs are up before the House intelligence committee to answer questions about the US eavesdropping on other governments.

The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, as the White House grapples with the fallout from revelations that the US has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Al Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to infiltrate US intelligence agencies, which are investigating thousands of their staff to counter the threat, The Washington Post has reported.

The US government is considering whether to charge Edward Snowden with leaking classified surveillance secrets, while it defends the spy programme it says keeps America safe from terrorists.

Edward Snowden used the code name “Verax,” truth-teller in Latin, as he made his cautious approach to Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman about disclosing some dramatic state secrets on top-secret intelligence gathering and surveillance.

The Guardian newspaper in London says a 29-year-old American who works as a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA) is its source of leaks about the US government’s surveillance programmes.

A Chinese city near the border with North Korea has held an air raid drill amid tensions over Pyongyang’s latest threats, according to media reports.

The top US intelligence official has said cyberterrorism is the leading worldwide threat to the country’s security.

Members of the US Congress are demanding more details about the FBI investigation that unmasked an extramarital affair between ex-CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer.

US and Pakistani officials say Pakistani forces have arrested a handful of al-Qaida suspects at the CIA’s request and allowed the US access to the detainees.

AFTER a string of world-shaking events America’s spies failed to predict, most recently the turmoil sweeping the Arab world, a vast project is taking shape to improve forecasting. It involves thousands of volunteers and the wisdom of crowds.

The use of full-body scanners and invasive pat-downs at airports around the US will not change for the "foreseeable future," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an interview broadcast today.

THE US spends more than $80 billion (€57bn) a year on its intelligence services, figures released yesterday for the first time show. Around $27bn goes to military intelligence.

US President Barack Obama said he wants the Senate to act quickly to approve his nominee to head the nation’s 16 spy agencies as he unveiled his choice today.

US president Barack Obama is today set to nominate James Clapper, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, to oversee the nation’s 16 spy agencies.

US president George Bush today nominated intelligence veteran, former National Security Agency Director Mike McConnell, to be the second US national intelligence director.