The Miami collapse is beyond disturbing, but what else is there to come?
Contractors
Hal Martin Sentencing Leaves All Questions Unanswered
Hal Martin’s sentencing yesterday offers no further explanation for the Shadow Brokers releases.
On the Curious Timing of Daniel Everette Hale’s Arrest
It’s not surprising the government indicted Daniel Everette Hale as the Intercept’s suspected Drone Wars source. It’s surprising they waited five years.
Confirmed: Listening to Whistleblower John Reidy Could Have Saved the Lives of Numerous CIA Assets
Yahoo confirms something I’ve suspect for some time: the communications vulnerability that allowed China to roll up the CIA’s network of spies is the same vulnerability John Reidy first started warning about in 2007.
Senate Intelligence Committee Doesn’t Think the Intelligence Community Inspector General Does Enough All-IC Oversight
Along with the unclassified sensible policy in the Intel Authorization this year (and the stupid WikiLeaks one), it appears the Senate Intelligence Committee is trying to make the Intelligence Community Inspector General more functional, which is a good thing.
Three Things: Bad, Worse, and Just Deal Already
Not so artistic deal on air craft; sketchy deal handing radioactive materials on our dime; and just freaking cut a deal already. This is an open thread.
Did China and Russia Really Need Our Help Targeting Spook Techies?
LAT has a story describing what a slew of others -- including me -- have already laid out. The OPM hack will enable China to cross-reference a bunch of databases to target our spooks. Aside from laying all that out again (which is worthwhile, because not a lot of...
The Danger of Someone Criticizing Political Pork Landing on the Capitol Lawn
The WaPo has a good review of how postal service worker Doug Hughes managed to fly his gyrocopter onto the Capitol lawn without being spotted by the Secret Service or other security forces. But the best part of the story cites corporate sucklings Chuck Schumer and Ron...
Internet Cats, Weaponized: US Defense Contractor Consulted on Targeted Network Injection Surveillance for Commercial Sales Abroad
First, a caveat: I would not click on the links embedded in the story I'm recommending (I'm this || close to swearing off embedded links forever). I don't trust traffic to them not to be monitored or exploited. But as Jeremy Scahill tweeted last evening, read this...
Bengh– Blackwater!
You should definitely read the James Risen story describing how the head of Blackwater's operations in Iraq threatened to kill an investigator into the company's practices in the period before the Nisour Square. It definitely confirms every concern that has been...
recent comments