An interesting development that went mostly un-noticed in the broader press coverage dealing with homeland security. The short version is that while the Zotob worm was running rough-shod over the …
The NIE Key Judgments in Plain English
What should strike those of you who have not worked in the IC is how unexciting the whole thing is. Granted, there are most assuredly several sentences and perhaps a few paragraphs that are missing …
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Declassed NIE Key Judgments
At ODNI site or here if you run into network problems. Commentary coming later tonight. …
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 …
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Bright Spot for IT, Sharing
Intelligence community leaders recently unveiled new information-sharing technologies that promise to consolidate links among secret networks, co-opt IT projects into enterprise architecture and …
Canadian HLS
Definately not serious. …
What drives people in the IC
They are few and far between but MAN the payoffs feel so righteous! …
Cherry-Filled NIE on Terrorism (Update)
Wow, the (still classified) NIE on terrorism reportedly points out that the war in Iraq has sown a new crop of Jihadists and ratcheted up the terrorist threat since 9/11/01. The intelligence estimate, …
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They Said, They Said
The DOD IG report on Able Danger was released yesterday. I have not had time to read fully, but a once-over suggests to me that either everyone with a whislte in their mouths committed perjury in …
DCIA Hayden Plots a Course (Update)
The CIA's new director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, told agency employees yesterday that their intelligence activities are too segmented, saying that operations officers who collect intelligence need to …