. . . 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 incorporating dissenting views into their analysis.

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 a longtime proponent of improving the U.S. government’s ability to retrieve and analyze the vast amounts of information available publicly from web sites, magazines,…

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 wonder why there isn’t a line of CBP agents at one end of the street with bags of flex-cuffs, while another line…

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 patriotic hackers,” U.S. officials say. Chinese-origin hackers are responsible for tens of thousands of computer attacks on U.S. government networks, U.S. officials say. A Hong…

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 feels left out? Something that the doctor is not aware of or has ignored: unless an item is…

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 intelligence data, including the names, photographs and telephone numbers of Afghan spies informing on the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The flash memory drive,…

Something I alluded to before but since has been exposed to new light: A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus [Zotob] then sweeping the internet, according to…

CHICAGO – Most schools’ emergency plans are outdated, especially against technologies like the Internet and cell phones, safety experts said Friday. Districts that don’t review and update plans for a terrorist attack or shooting rampage won’t be prepared when a crisis occurs, experts warned principals and superintendents at the National School Boards Association convention in…

Eric Haney has made much out of his time as a member of Delta Force, America’s clandestine counterterrorism outfit. Way too much, according to former Delta Force officers and operators, who say Haney has embellished his résumé and fabricated other parts of his military career on his way to becoming an acclaimed author and a…

Via AEI: Judge Posner weighs in on the state of IC reform. Some highlights: The fundamental cause of the ambitious reorganization of the intelligence community that we are living through is not, I believe, some deep flaws in the system as it existed on the eve of the 9/11 attacks. Rather, it is a deep…