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Katie Bo Lillis

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen

    Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics (opens the original)

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    The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Katie Bo Lillis

    CIA declassifies intel warnings to White House prior to 9/11 attack | CNN Politics (opens the original)

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    The now-infamous warning to then-President Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998: A group associated with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.” In the end, there were no explosives. Just four planes, two piloted into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and one intended for the US Capitol that crash-landed in a field in Pennsylvani

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen

    Military and intelligence officials discuss smaller presence in the Middle East as US looks for another post-9/11 strategy | CNN Politics (opens the original)

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    In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending the Iran conflict, six sources say. If those cuts happen, it would mark another shift in how the US national security apparatus treats a region that successive presidents have sought to leave behind. In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US ex

  4. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez

    A mysterious drone. A Mercedes RV. A Chinese intelligence puzzle in the New Mexico desert | CNN Politics (opens the original)

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    American authorities near a sensitive Army missile testing facility in New Mexico had spotted a quadcopter-style drone flying in such a way that suggested it was conducting reconnaissance in restricted airspace around the range. It wasn’t the first time. Just months earlier, in fall 2024, a similar drone was seen flying a similar pattern over the same base, leading agents with US Customs and Border Protection on a roughly 35-mile chase, multiple current and former US officials said. Using heli

  5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen

    Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics (opens the original)

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    The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas. “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last

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