Mini-Me: Stephen Slick on NCTC Lessons for CTIIC

Steven Slick is former NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform at the White House (2005-2009). The Intelligence Studies Essay #1: Steve Slick on Lessons that NCTC Holds for CTIIC CTIIC: Learning from the Choices and Challenges that Shaped the National Counterterrorism Center

Mini-Me: Elizabeth Warren Loves the Fed?

Huh? Elizabeth Warren And Sherrod Brown Fight Fed Audit, Foreclosure Transparency WASHINGTON — Top progressive senators are running away from a bill authored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to audit both the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy operations and millions of foreclosures. Their aversion could doom any chance for public transparency surrounding the widespread abuse that …

Mini-Me: Samsung to World – We’re Taping Everything You Say and NSA Loves Us

Huh? Samsung’s warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter Technically Incorrect: Samsung’s small print says that its Smart TV’s voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties. The wording, first spotted by the Daily Beast, first informs you that the company may “capture voice …

Mini-Me: Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo — USG & SA Created Islamic Fundamentalist Movement

Huh? The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo Shamus Cooke CounterPunch, 14 January 2015 The U.S.-backed Afghan jihad was the birth of the modern Islamic fundamentalist movement. The jihad attracted and helped organize fundamentalists across the region, as U.S. allies in the Gulf state dictatorships used the state religion to promote it.  Fighters who traveled …