NIGHTWATCH Extracts: Self-Delusions About AF-PK

Afghanistan: A Coalition officer told the US press today that “There is no practical way to secure the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the U.S. military will fight insurgents outside Afghan villages where they are vulnerable.” The officer remarked that securing the border would take an inordinate amount of resources and would require more cooperation from tribes …

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 …

Journal: Understanding Iran…and the future of IO

Stakelbeck on Terror | Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards CBN (Christian Broadcast Network), 14 December 2010 On this week’s special edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, CBN News goes inside Iran’s fearsome Revolutionary Guards Corps with Reza Khalili, a former member who worked undercover for the CIA to bring down the Iranian regime. The Revolutionary Guards Corps …