In LobeLog, a highly credible anti-interventionist world news blog, Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran analyst of the CIA, asks a key question: The security services that are supposed to guard against such subversion must answer to elected political leaders, lest such services become threats to democracy themselves. But what happens when elected leaders are the...
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Reuters: Ex-NSA Cyberspies Reveal How They Hacked Foes of UAE
This is a story about how intelligence agencies deploy private contractors for surveillance and repression. It’s about the globalization of intelligence. Exhibit A: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which detained an innocent British graduate student as a spy and conferred with the chief of Israel’s Mossad. The UAE is an ally of the United States,...
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Will House Intelligence Staff Get Clearances Necessary to Do Their Jobs?
That’s the question facing Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff. Right now many committee members do not have staffers with the Top Secret clearance necessary to review many classified records. Daniel Schuman in Just Security: Members of HPSCI must rely on committee staff to support them on highly classified matters, and those staff are hired by...
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CIA Archives Shows the Roots of the Honduran Border Caravan
In MuckRock, the innovative FOIA factory that generates investigative journalism, Chelsea Dickens illustrates a key fact about immigration to the United States in 2019: Covert and overt action in the ‘80s contributed to the “regional instability” still felt today Source: CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration • MuckRock
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Trump’s Feud With the Intelligence Community Deepens
The dis-integration of the Trump administration continues. The long-integrated intelligence operations of the White House and the national security agencies are now out of sync. The normal governmental process by which the national security agencies present timely intelligence and policy options to a president who chooses among them is not functioning. “The system is broken,”...