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2012/01/252012/01/25

David Isenberg: Steve Coll Reviews Three Books on Secret American Security State

Our Secret American Security State The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012 Steve Coll Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Little, Brown, 296 pp., $27.99 Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar Columbia University …

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2012/01/18

Event: 22-24 Aug 2012 Denmark European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference

European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2012) The Premier European Conference on Counterterrorism and Criminology Odense, Denmark August 22-24, 2012 http://www.eisic.org, http://www.eisic.eu Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society ——————— Call for Papers DUE 22 APRIL 2012 ———————

2012/01/16

Koko: Scary science, national security, and open-source research

Koko Sign: Transparency good. Scary science, national security, and open-source research Maggie Koerth-Baker BoingBoing, 13 January 2012 I’ve been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal …

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2012/01/11

Winslow Wheeler: National Security Misrepresentation

It’s Not Just the Politicians Who Have Cheapened the Defense Debate Winslow Wheeler I recall from early in my career when Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) took to the floor of the Senate to attack the allegedly scurrilous report that the B-1 bomber would cost as much as $60 million a copy: in truth, it turned out …

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2011/12/292011/12/29

Warren Edward Pollock: Interviewing Robert David Steele on Changing the Trajectory of the US Security State

For many years, Robert was in the Republican Party until Dick Cheney hijacked both the party and the White House. He briefly joined the Libertarian Party and considered running for Congress as a Libertarian (VA-11) but ended up focusing on Electoral Reform as the “one thing” that could mobilize all of us who are now …

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2011/12/272011/12/27

DefDog: STRATFOR Bites on Security

No. It’s THE code breaker. No more secrets… Sneakers Victims in hacking of security analyst Stratfor targeted after speaking to news media, online Associated Press, 27 December 2011 EXTRACT: The loose-knit hacking movement “Anonymous” claimed Sunday through Twitter that it had stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to the company’s …

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2011/10/12

Event: 9-10 Nov Ottawa New Frontiers in Security & Intelligence (CASIS)

9-10 November 2011 – Ottawa, Canada – “New Frontiers in Security and Intelligence” is theme of 2011 CASIS Annual International Conference CASIS is the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies. DRAFT AGENDA may be viewed here. It is a Word document. Location: Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Canada To register for the 2011 …

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