ThreatsWatch is one of those sites that I’ve always meant to hit. They get a lot of play from other sites I visit, but for whatever reason I never got around to getting there. After reading about the …
Clapper on the Outs
The Baltimore Sun reports that Gen (Ret) Clapper is dusting off his fishing pole: After clashing with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the director of the government's third largest intelligence …
Alas, Poor Russ, I knew him Horatio . . .
The Washington Times updates us on the latest with former colleague Russ Tice: Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the House and Senate …
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It’s big in Italy
Just in case you thought CIA officers were in danger of not being able to set foot in Rome any time soon . . . The mainstream U.S. media outlets have failed to report a major terrorist plot …
More on Domestic Spying
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 …