Welcome OTB readers . . . Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it. Only people with …
Info Sharing: Still Not Getting It
U.S. officials said Tuesday the U.S. intelligence community was grappling with policies to effectively share information. […] Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., chairman of the Homeland Security Intelligence …
Location, Location, Location
Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte may have his eye on history as he attempts to secure a prime downtown Washington property - Navy Hill, overlooking the Potomac River - for his …
HLS: Serious
The Transportation Security Administration, which has faced start-up pains for much of the past four years, is expanding career opportunities for passenger and baggage screeners in hopes of reducing …
Now Please
Now is the time to tell our soldiers in Iraq that “hot pursuit” is okay, that the terrorist training camps on both sides of Iraq are legitimate targets, to be attacked in self-defense. Now is the time …
How Soon?
More a current events than an intel post, so pardon the interruption . . . So I’m reading about Hezbollah rocket attacks against Nazareth and for some reason I’m taken back to the spring of 2001 when …
Bassem gets out from under a cloud
An internal investigation by the [FBI’s] Office of Professional Responsibility found "sufficient circumstantial evidence" that Special Agent Bassem Youssef was blocked from a counterterrorism …
Good Points
SOI reminds us that success in this fight means less about territory than some would suggest. The down-side; it means that it'll get uglier before it gets prettier. …
Sometimes they mean just what they say
Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide."We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered …
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Quite Possibly the Best News . . .
. . . to come out of the IC in a long time: Many U.S. intelligence agencies as well as the congressional intelligence oversight committees hire their senior staff from a predictable, somewhat …