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 effective attack on an enemy position, quickly killing or disabling them in a manner outlawed for decades. Of course,…

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 a dead horse, could we please stop with rating from privacy advocates about how government investigation into large pools of…

A former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst has pleaded guilty to illegally holding classified documents and admitted in a plea agreement to passing “top secret” information to Chinese intelligence officials. Ronald N. Montaperto, the former analyst who held a security clearance as a China specialist at a U.S. Pacific Command research center until 2004, pleaded guilty…

Consider: Seven radical (black) Muslims arrested in Miami Mid-2005 Population of black men between 20-39 in US prisons: ~ 500,000 (DOJ BJS) In 2004, # Muslim men in just federal facilities ~9,000 (DOJ OIG) % of Muslims in federal facilities who declare affiliation with Sunni or Nation of Islam: 85 All elephants are gray, but…

That’s what we can call subsequent terrorist attacks. Don’t I mean intelligence failure? No, because by all accounts intel is doing everything it can to keep us safe without imposing the “papers please” environment fear-mongers would have you believe we are marching towards. By its own admission there is nothing wrong or illegal about the…

The mailbag fills up early today: When are you neocons going to give up? 500 shells is not a WMD program! They are so old they probably wouldn’t even work! Even your own president doesn’t care! Dude, easy on the exclamation points . . . If your reading comprehension skills were up to snuff you’d…

. . . on NK launch / no launch / shoot-down options at GroupIntel Forums: http://groupintel.net/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9901014161/m/7341046191

Monograph really. Judge Posner’s Remaking Domestic Intelligence. An excellent treatment of the subject. If it isn’t on Charlie Allen’s bookshelf it should be.

In a striking departure from the hush-hush culture of intelligence community IT, the CIO’s office for the Director of National Intelligence is running an open online forum about certification and accreditation issues, as well as other technology matters. It might not seem like it, but this is very, very important. It is probably the most…

A perfectly good and entirely feasable idea via Bruce Schneier: There are a variety of encryption technologies that allow you to analyze data without knowing details of the data: I am reminded of the after-action meeting held after a major cyber threat event about, oh, eight years ago. In one room sat the working-level experts…