Is The DNC Hacking A New Cold War… Or Just The Continuation Of What Every...
Various degrees of hand-wringing (and hasty resignations) have greeted the news that our old Cold War foe — the Russkies — were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computers....
View ArticleDocuments Show The FBI Wishes It Was The CIA, Thinks It Should Take The Lead...
If the FBI seems especially out of control lately, what with Mad Dog Comey constantly on the prowl and his underlings acting like an unofficial wing of Wikileaks, it’s not just you. The FBI’s director...
View ArticleCold War Documents Show The FBI Thinks It Can Be The CIA — And The US...
The FBI has, for years now apparently, always wished to be far more than it actually is. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the FBI shifted its focus from law enforcement to “national security.” It...
View ArticleIntelligence Community Leaks Are Normalizing Domestic Surveillance Abuses
It’s the normal state of things, but familiarity makes it no less enjoyable to observe: power changes hands in the White House and suddenly everything the previous president authorized with the...
View ArticleIntelligence Oversight? Dianne Feinstein Employed A Chinese Spy For Several...
Well, this is awkward. Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported...
View ArticleChina Actively Collecting Zero-Days For Use By Its Intelligence Agencies —...
It all seems so far away now, but in 2013, during the early days of the Snowden revelations, a story about the NSA’s activities emerged that apparently came from a different source. Bloomberg reported...
View ArticleICE, CBP Want To Sit With The Adults, Angling For Entrance Into The...
Has the DHS been trying to put the “IC” in ICE? A letter reviewed by Betsy Woodruff of The Daily Beast seems to indicate ICE is possibly now part of the “Intelligence Community,” bringing it in line...
View ArticleCIA Director Mike Pompeo Touted Kidnapping, Killing Of Julian Assange In...
As CIA director, Mike Pompeo decided Julian Assange and Wikileaks should be promoted to Public Enemy #1. With Wikileaks leaking leaked CIA secrets, Pompeo ratcheted up his rhetoric in response to the...
View ArticleWhoops: Congress Failed To Actually Fund Efforts To “Rip And Replace” Chinese...
You might recall that the FCC under both Trump and Biden has made a big deal about forcing U.S. telecoms to rip out Huawei gear from their networks, under the allegation that the gear is used to spy on...
View ArticleSensitive Police, First Responder Communications Tech Used Flimsy Encryption...
Transparency is good, actually. For decades numerous sensitive infrastructure, military, and first responder systems in Europe and the U.S. have utilized a radio standard dubbed TETRA (Terrestrial...
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