A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. ...
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Teri O’Brien at The American Thinker considers the impact that Apple-like compartmentalization would have on . . . well . . . the IC:
So, I think [DNI Negroponte] should resign, and President Bush should give ...
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Charlie is on the job:
Years without an intelligence strategy to secure U.S. borders resulted in uncoordinated and sometimes incomplete threat information about immigrants, a top counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
Only over the past year has the ...
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Given a chance to cut back on future leaks, the Senate balks:
The U.S. Senate has refused to protect whistleblowers in intelligence agencies.
The Senate last week passed a markedly different version of whistleblower protection legislation than ...
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To say that I am on the anti-secrets-publication bandwagon would be something of an understatement, but while listening to various editors and reporters on the radio talking about the rightness or wrongness of revealing classified ...
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Nearly five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security continue to clash over who is in charge of coordinating and vetting information on terrorism. As a result, state and ...
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. . . so little privacy:
Almost every piece of personal information that Americans try to keep secret -- including bank account statements, e-mail messages and telephone records -- is semi-public and available for sale.
That was ...
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You will probably only find it in a second-hand bookstore (I found mine in Ottawa), or you can wait a month and maybe Amazon will be able to find a paperback version for you, but ...
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Pesky details courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
I think that we have known of a handful of recovered chemical-weapons shells, but not 500. That number has more significance. An artillery company could have laid down a very ...
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First, in light of recent events and because I am a good steward of the virtual planet, allow me to recycle this post as well as this one.
Second, and at the risk of beating ...
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