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2010/12/272010/12/27

Assessment of the Position of Director of National Intelligence

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) was created to examine how the terrorist attacks of September 2001 could have occurred and what could be done to prevent future attacks. Among other things the Commission recommended that there should be a National Intelligence Director who would have “two main areas …

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2010/12/242010/12/24

Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation

PART I: The Only Way to Fix the Deficit–Multiply Jobs (William Drayton) PART II: Nice Ideas But So Is Icing Cover Feces (Robert Steele) PART III: Create Jobs? As an End In Themselves? To Do What? Why? (Alexander Carpenter) PART IV: Related Recommended Reading (Robert Steele) The core take-away (from PART III) Beyond its inherent …

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2010/12/242010/12/24

Journal: Covert War in Pakistan–Lessons Not Learned

Something caught my eye while reading a Slate item written by Tom Scocca and posted on December 20, 2010, “Two Ways of Looking at Our Covert War in Pakistan.” Mr. Scocca wrote: “There are diplomatic tensions because we are fighting a full-on undeclared war on the territory of a country with which we are an …

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2010/12/222010/12/22

Journal: CIA WikiLeaks Task Force (aka WTF, One Down From REMF)

CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks By Greg Miller Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 12:24 AM The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task …

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2010/12/21

Journal: NSA Assumes It Has Been Compromised…Correct!

U.S. Code-Cracking Agency Works As If Compromised. The U.S. government’s main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard. “There’s no such thing as ‘secure’ any more,” Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid …

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2010/12/202011/01/01

Wikileaks V Rolling Update CLOSED

30 December 2010 Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears (BBC) The WikiLeaks War on America (Commentary) The Dark Side of Wikileaks (Atlanta Post) Assange: I’ll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups (YNETNews) Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA (CBSNews) WikiLeaks founder vows to release all files in case of death or …

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2010/12/202010/12/20

Journal: Corporate Hijacking of Cyber-Space

OPINION DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL WS Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking …

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