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Senate intel leaders vow to ‘get to the bottom’ of increasing directed-energy attacks

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U.S. personnel have reported symptoms similar to the “Havana Syndrome” attacks from 2016.

The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee vowed on Friday to “get to the bottom of” a series of directed-energy attacks on U.S. personnel around the world, after POLITICO reported that such attacks appear to be increasing.

“Ultimately we will identify those responsible for these attacks on American personnel and will hold them accountable,” wrote Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a statement.

The statement came a day after POLITICO reported that U.S. officials are investigating a suspected directed-energy attack on U.S. government personnel in Miami in 2020, as well as at least two additional possible attacks on U.S. soil. Continue reading.

Biden says it’s a good thing his ‘colleague’ Kamala Harris is still on the Senate Intelligence Committee

But warns ‘more people may die’ if Trump administration doesn’t coordinate on vaccine

President-elect Joe Biden said Monday that perhaps it was less of a concern that he was not getting top secret intelligence as part of the stalled presidential transition because his vice president-elect is still on the Intelligence Committee.

“The good news here is my colleague is still on the Intelligence Committee, so she gets the intelligence briefings I don’t any more,” Biden said in Wilmington, Del., after a meeting with business executives and labor leaders focused on the economy and the COVID-19 pandemic response. “I am hopeful that the president will be mildly more enlightened before we get to January 20.”

Biden’s penchant for Senate-speak aside, his remarks point to the curious reality of the moment: Vice president-elect Kamala Harris may know more about emerging threats to America than the next commander-in-chief. Continue reading.