A U.S. government contractor was arrested Friday on charges of leaking classified national defense information to his romantic partner.

Ian A. Brinksman, a former contractor who provided services to the CIA, was charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, according to the Justice Department.

A 42-year-old Washington, DC-based contractor, Ian Brinksman, allegedly provided national defense information to a Substack publisher.

The sweeping spying and surveillance programs revealed by the Snowden leaks have raised serious questions about whether the United States government values the privacy of foreign governments and its own citizens, but it’s clear that the government values ...

U.S. intelligence agencies have contradictory rules that govern classification of information, including inconsistencies over what would constitute harm if the information were disclosed, according to a report by the director of national intelligence that ...

It’s Nuts That Trump Will Have Classified Briefings Again. When he clinches the GOP nomination, the ex-president—currently under indictment for taking, hiding, and refusing to

Despite the fact that the government seems more enthusiastic than ever about gathering data, its taste for making it classified seems to be waning. Thisyear’s Information Security Oversight Office report reveals that, in 2012, the total number of ...

Jeffrey Fields is an associate professor of the practice of international relations at the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Before coming to academia, I worked for many years as an analyst at both the ...