Government investigators Monday panned the administration's efforts to share vital counter-terrorism information among the large number of federal agencies involved in protecting the U.S. homeland, an …
And you wonder . . .
. . . why certain agencies flat-out refuse to connect to warfighter networks: John Schoonover, who worked for the Department of Defense on one of the largest network deployments in history during …
At Ease
I think I have mentioned this before, but my political acumen is not terribly sophisticated. The last guy I got really excited about putting in the White House died of cancer, so if we’re ever at the …
And More Progress
On April 3, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld issued a directive to establish a Joint Intelligence Operations Center at DoD's Defense Intelligence Agency, at each unified combatant command and at …
Even a little progress . . .
. . . is still progress A year into a broad overhaul of U.S. intelligence operations, top officials said Thursday they have gained greater confidence in their intelligence assessments, in part by …
Clearance? We don’t need no stinking clearance
The head of a private research company has challenged the director of national intelligence to an information duel. Robert David Steele Vivas, the chief executive officer of Open Source Solutions, is …
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Mother, not whore
I’m reading about and occasionally watching snippets of the illegal immigration protests going on around the country. Looking at the crowds I am reminded of the deer hunting drives of my youth and …
Their Kung Fu is Strong
A key component of China's information warfare expertise comes from a group called the "Red Hackers Alliance," which identifies itself as "a network security research organization made up of Chinese …
Amazing
How this made it into print is beyond me (it isn’t but I like to pretend to be indignant). Lots of movement but it is more flailing than dancing. Perhaps the master of the online quilting archive …
Inexcusable!
Not the reporting – the carelessness. A computer drive sold openly Wednesday at a bazaar outside the U.S. air base here holds what appears to be a trove of potentially sensitive American …