I really enjoy reading William Arkin's Early Warning blog. Our opinions on the intel business don't always jibe (96Bs and 98Cs will never get along all that well) but in his latest post he hits what I …
Data Mining/OSINT on the Cheap
Very clever. Makes me wish I'd kept up my script-writing skillz. http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks …
On Sources
Thomas Joscelyn writes in the Weekly Standard about James Risen and his sources: On NBC's "Today" show this morning, New York Times scribe Jim Risen told Katie Couric that he hopes he will not have …
Drip, Drip, Drip
Given my background I may be slightly biased, but I’ve never been a big fan of leakers of classified information. The whole point of keeping stuff classified is that it isn’t supposed to be out on the …
Dangers of GI Blogs
From Newsday: Letters home filled with tales of death and danger, bravery and boredom are a wartime certainty. And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about …
Pshaw!
And they said that no one from the JTF would ever amount to anything: The spookiest venture capital firm on the planet has hired a new CEO. In-Q-Tel - the CIA's venture capital unit - has tapped …
Post Holiday Catch-Up
Such an effort is almost a waste of time (almost) since you're starting long after the gun has gone off, but it is a nice way to reboot the mental OS out of hibernation and get back into the swing of …
It just came to me . . .
. . . another reason why the polygraph isn't a very good tool for screening out potential spies and leakers: Clearly the people who are leaking about Plame, the rendition program, NSA interceptions, …
PATRIOT Act Extension (Sort of)
A month is what the House thinks is appropriate: The House of Representatives agreed to extend a controversial domestic surveillance law this afternoon, but it limited the extension to one month and …
WaPo DHS Expose
A great start to what is going to be a multi-part series on DHS in the WaPo today: Born out of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, DHS was initially expected to synthesize intelligence, secure borders, …