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Michael Tanji

Michael Tanji spent nearly 20 years in the US intelligence community. Trained in both SIGINT and HUMINT disciplines he has worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. At various points in his career he served as an expert in information warfare, computer network operations, computer forensics, and indications and warning. A veteran of the US Army, Michael has served in both strategic and tactical assignments in the Pacific Theater, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

In a Zoolander sort of way

A reader sends this link to the SITE Institute . . . A document which seeks to debunk the claim that jihad is a wasted venture against America due to the disparity in terms of military ...

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Thursday marks a dubious anniversary in the Homeland Security Department's brief history. A year ago Secretary Michael Chertoff, as part of a department-wide restructuring, announced he would appoint an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications. ...

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Israeli Conflict Poll Up

GroupIntel Forums members (and anyone who wants to join) please hit the new poll at: http://groupintel.net/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9901014161/m/6351053691

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Heritage Panel Notes

As mentioned previously, I participated in a panel discussion about captured media at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Most of the thunder was stolen by HPSCI Chairman Hoekstra, but I didn’t mind. The guy has ...

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Lies and Stats (Again)

Crypto star and security maven Schneier trots out an academic ally to beat the “data mining is bad” horse: Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian university, applies the mathematics of conditional probability, known as Bayes' ...

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Hey, look! A stovepipe!

Some US intelligence experts say the government should rethink how it gathers information in the war on terror. Four intelligence community veterans led by former C-I-A deputy director Richard Kerr offer their assessment in an unofficial ...

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Real Sharing on the Horizon?

A Senate intelligence panel is pushing the National Security Agency to open its databases of raw signals intelligence to a wider audience within the intelligence community. […] The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ordered the NSA ...

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Hope for Oversight?

In another story that may not make the White House happy, The New York Times on Sunday reported that it had obtained what it calls "a sharply worded letter" by a top Republican sent to ...

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Tasting Our Own Ice Cream (Updates)

A friend from the biz used to say that after a few days out of the office he would delete any emails or other messages older than 72 hours old; odds are that whatever was ...

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“Top” must mean something different there

The FBI's National Security Branch, which leads the war on terrorism, is on its sixth director in four years. [former chief Gary] Bald lasted just eight months. Chris Swicker, the head of the bureau's law ...

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