I’m amazed at the stunning lack of understanding about the now widely reported NSA terrorism surveillance program. I expect as much for the yak-o-sphere, but listening to the AG go round and round …
Why (Media) Exploitation Matters
Eli Lake throws a log on the fire: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues …
Burn the Witch
The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret …
The Point of the Conic Section
Math geeks strike back! …
Here we go again . . .
. . . Same old stuff again . . . UPI reports that even during the “long war” recruiting intelligence officers isn’t a cake walk: U.S.News & World Report said Saturday the CIA would not be able …
What? You Worry?
Written to cast more shadows on the NSA terrorist surveillance program, but the bottom line issue is captured in the beginning of this piece in the Washington Post: Fewer than 10 U.S. citizens or …
Intelligence? Sold!
One thing has been strikingly absent from the public debate about the terrorist surveillance program run by the National Security Agency: Perspective. While we may not know the full scope of the use …
Tick, tick, tick . . .
Slate takes a brief look at intel whiste-blowers and the potential significance of Russ' testimony next week. I'm particularly fond of the wrap-up: Sources in addition to Tice sketched out the …
Bond, Jane Bond
This was just too good to pass up, and a nice way to lighten the mood on a Friday. New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a …
And I Thought Eliot Jardines . . .
. . . had the toughest most thankless job in the Community: Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Job Announcement Number: TBD-2-13-2006 SALARY RANGE: 107,521.00 - 139,774.00 …