The leak that the U.S. was apparently behind the Stuxnet worm that impacted the Nataz nuclear enrichment facility in Iran came – as it always does – with a rash of analysis and opinion related to the …
Hackers strike over cybersecurity bill
"The hacker group Anonymous on Monday crashed the websites of two trade associations that support a House cybersecurity bill. " (Source: Hackers strike over cybersecurity bill - The Hill's Hillicon …
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NO DNI love for uGOV
In the finger-pointing-fest after 9/11, the US Intelligence Community was blamed for failing to "connect the dots." As incomplete a description of the intelligence analysis process as that may be, it …
New Intel Sharing Paper
Money quote from the Author's Note: The unavoidable conclusion is that the U.S. government cannot continue to allow a collecting agency to make unilateral originator control determinations regarding …
The Other Marshall Plan
I used to wax and wane about the need to purge national security functionaries, but I've stopped waning, as my latest commentary at ThreatsWatch indicates. …
Define “Bigger”
(cross-posted at Haft of the Spear) I don’t get Insight Magazine so I don’t know the full story that goes along with this teaser: The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Osama bin Laden has …
Coalition of the Dastardly
(Cross posted to Haft of the Spear) I engaged in several conversations about cyber threats this past week and each conversant repeated with certainty a lack of concern over a relationship between …
More NIE Cherry Filling (Running Updates)
Love those tart cherries . . . As predicted, it turns out that the recently leaked NIE isn't exactly the scathing indictment of current war/counterterrorism efforts as certain elements would have you …
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Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
Cross posted at Haft of the Spear As incoming Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates plots a fresh path through Iraq, he is also expected to chart a different course for Pentagon intelligence programs, …
An Interesting Challenge
(cross-posted at Haft of the Spear) The Navy counter-intelligence officer who garnered a confession from Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard says that U.S. agencies missed a forest of red flags about him and …