Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is blocking the nomination of former FBI agent Bill Evanina for the nation’s top counterintelligence position. The back story here is — what else? — the Trump-Russia investigation. Evanina was the government’s most senior counterintelligence official during Russia’s hack and release influence operation aimed at undermining...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Threatening Cyberwar May Encourage, Not Deter, Cyberattacks, Official Say
The New York Times cyberwar report over the weekend that the U.S is escalating attacks on Russia’s power grid worries former White House cybersecurity officials. “The idea that we can use cyber offense capabilities to impose sabotage-like effects, and to do so in increasingly large scale and costly ways until they get it through their...
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Bolton Takes Control of Trump’s North Korea Policy
Joe Cirincione, chief of the disarmament group Ploughshares, has a cogent analysis of why the Hanoi summit of President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un failed. The opportunity, he notes, was this: In Hanoi, North Korea wanted to trade some of their nuclear capability for most of the sanctions. Trump offered some of the...
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Mass Surveillance Program Ended By Trump Uncovered Exactly One Case of Terrorism
The mass surveillance program, launched by President Bush, defended by President Obama, and now reportedly discontinued by President Trump, was spectacularly unsuccessful at achieving its stated goal of making Americans safer. Susan Landau, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, explains: While initial statements by the intelligence community brought up 54 incidents in...
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Authorities Implicate CIA in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
The story from El Pais, the leading newspaper of Spain, suggests U.S. intelligence might have had a hand in the Feb. 22 invasion of North Korea’s embassy in Madrid. At least two of the 10 assailants who broke into the embassy and interrogated diplomatic staff have been identified and have connections to the US intelligence...