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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.

Definately Not Serious

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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The iBigot List

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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Ever Forward

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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Discarding an Important Tool

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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Intelligence Reporting: Is “Good Enough” Good Enough?

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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Haste Makes Waste

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 Much Data . . .

. . . 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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When to Publish

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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WMD: Moving at the speed of government (Running Updates)

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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Please, Stop with the “Privacy” Arguments

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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