Barnes, now 85 years old, told reporter Peter Baker that he and former Texas governor John Connally visited one Middle Eastern capital after another in the summer of 1980, “meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan...
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UK Spy Agency Says AI Chatbots Pose a Security Threat
The cybersecurity unit of the General Communications Headquarters, the United Kingdom’s signals intelligence agency, warns that sensitive queries entered into chatbots like ChatGPT could be hacked or leaked. Source: UK spy agency says AI chatbots like ChatGPT pose a security threat
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Wagner Mercenary Chief Says He Ran Russian Information War
An ally of President Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin earned his reputation as an operator of internet “troll farms.” The U.S. Treasury Department has placed him under several rounds of sanctions, accusing him of interference in the 2016 presidential election, among others, in part by funding the Internet Research Agency — which has been accused of fomenting...
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Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally
Tens of thousands of Iranian-Americans, including supporters of the exiled former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, held rallies in the United States* recently to show their support for the ongoing anti-regime protests in the Islamic republic.Among them was a man who has shunned the limelight for decades: Parviz Sabeti, the former deputy head of...
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Director of National Intelligence Barred From Reporting on Domestic Extremists in U.S. Armed Forces
From Lawfare blog, “Getting to Ground Truth on the Reach of Domestic Violent Extremist Groups Into the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities,“ The only House provision that was adopted in the final NDAA was a call to screen social media usage for connections to extremist ties; however, the provision was limited to reporting on...