National security

The Tomahawk is a long-range, precision-guided cruise missile.

U.S. officials have raised concerns that the United States may be unable to control how weapons are used after they are sold to allied third-party countries (for example, NATO members) and then transferred onward to another country such as Ukraine.

The acquisition or supply of long-range strike weapons can increase a state's ability to target military assets deep inside an adversary's territory and is often perceived as enhancing deterrence and bargaining leverage in diplomatic negotiations.

A 2025 OpenAI report found that foreign adversaries increasingly use multiple AI models—commonly using ChatGPT to plan operations and other models to carry them out—to power hacking and influence operations.

A 2025 OpenAI report found that threat actors use ChatGPT to research and refine phishing automation and then run that automation on other models, including China-based models such as DeepSeek.

A 2025 OpenAI report found that adversaries use AI models to assist in developing malware and composing phishing emails.

A 2025 OpenAI report found that nation-state hackers and scam networks are adopting techniques to hide signs of AI-generated content, including instructing models like ChatGPT to alter punctuation to remove telltale markers.

The Espionage Act, a law used to prosecute individuals who disclose confidential government information, was enacted shortly after the United States entered World War I.

The Tren de Aragua criminal group has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.

Questions about whether employees or applicants have leaked information to the press have been commonplace in screening and security clearance adjudication processes for U.S. intelligence community personnel.

U.S. federal leak investigations have included use of polygraph examinations and aggressive tactics such as seizing phone and email records to identify sources of disclosures.