A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. Human intelligence (traditional “spying”) is in part successful because people have a sense of trust that the guy (intelligence officer) who is talking you (impending traitor) into doing something…

(The retooled, recycled version of the earlier post mentioned. Periodical option fell through so baby goes shoeless this month 😉 ) After General Michael Hayden was nominated by President Bush for the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency, it took mere days for stories about alleged illegalities perpetrated during his tenure at the National Security…

For all the screaming mimis . . . this is how it works in a REAL police state.

From ABC: Americans by nearly a 2-1 ratio call the surveillance of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern even if their own calling patterns are scrutinized. Lending support to the administration’s defense of its anti-terrorism intelligence efforts, 63 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post…

Scary piece on NSA’s supposed evils in USA Today this morning. Will have a more thorough treatment up later today, but in the mean time, allow me to do my bit for the environment and recycle another post that should provide some insights and balance out the hype. Moring coverage from Michelle Malkin, Strata-Sphere, OTB,…

Who here ever heard of DOCEX prior to the release of the West Point report? Prior to the IDA study? Prior to Steve Hayes writing about it throughout last year? That’s what I thought. You couldn’t hold a gun to anyone’s head and get them to acknowledge the mission because it was the under-appreciated scut…

I swear, if I read one more story about sinking morale in the CIA due to the “supremacy” of the DNI, I’m going to . . . blog some more! People I know on the inside are cautiously optimistic. They’ve never wavered in their motivation towards the job, but they are all candidates for medication…

(H/T to Guy Kawasaki) Some refreshing comments from the business world on how not to do things. “Escape from Cubicle Nation” – doesn’t get much better than that. Could be used in individual agency management, or reform writ large, if anyone cares to listen. Of course take out all the references to “money” and “profit”…

Likely to be lost in the FLAILCON 2 environment surrounding the nomination of Gen Hayden for DCIA: U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte this week announced the appointment of a new chancellor for the National Intelligence University. Carson K. Eoyang’s started work May 1, said a statement Monday from the office of the director of national…

Prize-winner Dana Priest points out what some expect Hayden’s strategy to be: Former and current intelligence officers say Goss never had a strategic plan for improving spying on terrorist networks. [former DDO Stephen] Kappes, on the other hand, had slowly begun to put his ideas, gained through 23 years of experience around the world, into…