Leak: What you do when you pass classified to people not authorized to recieve it. Authorized Disclosure: What you do when you pass classified to people you think should have it when you have the authority to declassify.

If you have been following the developments surrounding what has been found in the captured Iraqi documents, you’re aware that they portray a dramatic and sometimes shocking state of affairs in pre-war Iraq. Some have asked how the US intelligence community could ignore these documents when they apparently contain such bombshells. The easy and predictable…

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) blasted the DOJ and the FBI division for a recent five-year, $12 million contract for ChoicePoint to provide investigative analysis software to the FBI. In February 2005, ChoicePoint announced a data breach after criminals set up fake businesses that purchased private information from the data broker. “What in heaven’s name are…

The CIA DI leads a cheer that should be read in full: Nearly one year ago, President Bush’s commission on weapons of mass destruction released its report identifying shortcomings in the intelligence community. Many of the commission’s judgments dealt with analysis, the discipline I lead at the CIA. The primary criticism was that our analysts…

Time to revisit an old favorite via Captain’s Quarters:

. . . some just smell worse than others. Who would I rather team up with: Amateurs or fabricators . . . hmmmm.

. . . blow him a kiss: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded contracts for a system to improve information retrieval. The sysetm is designed to simplify the process of identifying important information from multiple sources often ignored by analysts swamped by data.

FAS provides a copy of the latest IO doctrine . . . and the sign you’ll only see at the NDU-NPS championship football game:

Bruce puts his signature where his mouth is: It is in this spirit I announce the (possibly First) Movie-Plot Threat Contest. Entrants are invited to submit the most unlikely, yet still plausible, terrorist attack scenarios they can come up with. If you worked in the biz on and immediately after 9/11 you’ve got at least…

The House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to withhold funding from the nation’s intelligence director over concerns that his office, which was created to streamline operations in the nation’s spy community, is instead becoming bloated and bureaucratic. […] The bill would require the nation’s intelligence director, John D. Negroponte, to present a detailed rationale for any…