Leaders of the US intelligence community have petitioned against easing the parole conditions of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, on the grounds that doing so would breach national security, while others have called for his sentence to be commuted.

The United States “can’t fix” the Middle East region, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in an interview with the Washington Post.

With a growing number of Americans being influenced by ISIS due to social media and other campaigns, terrorist threats on US soil are real and have become the FBI's top priority.