SchwartzReport: NSA as Foundation for Police State with Comment on “Parallel Construction”

Here are the views of a former high ranking NSA official. They remind me of Richard Clarke. Just because authority at this point only intrudes to a small degree does not mean it cannot go much further. The information will be there to work with. And there are thousands of laws. I am always concerned …

2014 Intelligence Reform (All Others)

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Reform Under Construction – Send Nominations to robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com Updated 23 Jan 2014 14:58 E Phi Beta Iota: The current literature on intelligence reform is underdeveloped and under-specified.  An example of this under- or mis-specification can be seen in the treatment of 9/11. The dominant position that 9/11 was an intelligence failure is correct …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.7

BIG DATA: Rutgers Predicting Crime with Big Data, Affordably BOOK: Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (John Rizzo as reviewed by Dina Temple-Raston) BOOK: Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity (Cynthia Sue Larson) CYBER: Intrusive Meta-Data CYBER: Zeus Malware Targeting Small Banks and Credit Unions DEATH: 25,000 …

Chuck Spinney: NSA Can’t Make Sense? I Am Shocked, Simply Shocked…

… the quite predictable case of data overload and why the most serious 4th Amendment breach relates to the statistical problem of ‘data culling’ algorithms* generating large numbers of “false positives” and thereby wiping out the principle of “probable cause.” NSA Can’t Make Sense of Masses of Culled Data Too Much Useless Data, Warns Former …