The Guardian reports that recently released documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal the previously unknown extent of the Pentagon’s wide-area surveillance capabilities. South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois have been playing unknown host to 25 solar-powered balloons as part of a test through U.S. Southern Command since mid-July and the tests...
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What Mueller Didn’t Say About ‘Putin’s Prince’ and His Troll Factory
(This article was first published on Just Security) The narrow testimony and contentious questioning of Robert Mueller has raised questions on the political left as well as the right about one of his most significant findings related to Russia’s secret efforts to influence the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump: the social media...
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The Army Is Conducting a Secret Operation Above Washington D.C.
In recent weeks and months residents of Washington DC have noticed a definite increase in helicopter traffic overhead. We’re used to the ambulance helicopters going to Washington Hospital Center, and police helicopters covering, big events on the Mall, and the occasional police chase, and so on. But something more has been going on recently. Now...
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Shades of Shadow Brokers: Hackers Publish Files of Russian Intelligence Contractor
In April 2017, an anonymous group of hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers published a collection of cyberwar weapons created by the National Security Agency. Now a group of Russian hackers has published a set of tools commissioned by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to the BBC. (The FSB is Russia’s equivalent of the FBI.)...
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As CIA Steps Up Operations, Iran Again Claims to Have Arrested 17 U.S. Spies
The intelligence agencies of Iran and the United States are at war, even if the two countries are not. As the Trump administration applies “maximum pressure” to Iran, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) responds with a claim that it has arrested 17 CIA spies in the country. At a news conference in Tehran,...