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Time for Rethinking: U.S. National Security in an Age of Insurrection
How the Insurrectionists Breached the Capitol
In the Face of the Fascist Threat, an Epic US Intelligence Failure
Behind the IRGC-Hezbollah Alliance, Soleimani Bonded With Mugniyeh’s Family
Former U.S. Defense Secretaries Warn Against a Military Coup
Россия: Главное разведывательное управление (ГРУ)
Among the Most Popular Stories of 2020: JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy
‘Eyes in the Sky’: The Scary Realities of Wide Area Surveillance
中国:国家安全部(MSS)
Inside The Five Eyes: ‘Like a Moon Base’
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
Bellingcat: FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning
Россия: Федеральная Служба Безопасности (ФСБ)
RIP: Jerrold Post, CIA Profiler Who Said Trump Was a ‘Malignant Narcissist’
Iran’s Intelligence Service (in Farsi ایران: وزارت اطلاعات و امنیت ( واجا) و سپاہ پاسداران انقلاب جمھوری ایران (سپاہ)
The Five Eyes See ‘Every Corner of the Globe’
美国:国家安全局(NSA)
The FBI, the Law, and the Growing Threat of Trump Terrorism
Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی)
Category: <span>Transparency</span>
MuckRock on Transparency and the Transition Away from Trump
12 Steps to Controlling the U.S. Surveillance State
(Image Credit; Just Security) A team of writers at the Just Security blog, have a 12-step program for reining in the U.S. surveillance system that has expanded relentlessly beyond the control of Congress and the people. Whether President-elect Biden and his national security team will be interested is another question. The Biden intelligence transition team...
How Biden Can Set the Terms Against Trump’s Plan to Steal the Election
From Sidney Blumenthal at Just Security, a checklist of measures to protect the vote, or as he puts it, “ the commitments for maintaining a fair and free democratic election that Biden should advance before the election.” No candidate should do anything to prevent votes from being counted, however long that process takes. No candidate...
Xinjiang Data Project Documents China’s High Tech Social Controls
Drawing on open source data including satellite imagery, Chinese government documents, official statistics and a range of authoritative reports and academic studies, the Xinjiang Data Project documents the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing program of human rights abuses and tech-enhanced authoritarianism in Xinjiang, and explores its global implications. This is a case study in repressive technology,...
Why Snowden Agreed to Give Up $1 Million
While this may look like a legal victory for the government, it also formalizes a negotiating process between Snowden and the U.S. government. Snowden has long said that he would come back to face trial on Espionage Act charges, if he could mount a “conscientious objector”-type argument in court. The government has never allowed that...