Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history. — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea of a… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student -… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
“We are in a strange world,' one senior Israeli official said to me, 'where the defense minister and to a lesser degree the prime… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States. — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
“China's internal divisions have made it far harder to strike the kind of deals that made it possible for the two countries to open… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
We have spent so much time worrying about a 'cyber Pearl Harbor,'' the attack that takes out the power grid, that we have focused… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
