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From SpyTalk’s Jeff Stein:
The National Archives has opened the books on the OSS, America’s World War Two spying and sabotage agency.
On Thursday the Archives released 750,000 pages of records, including the intimate personnel files future super-chef Julia Childs, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, screen star Sterling Hayden and Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg.
CQ Politics | SpyTalk - CIA Man: Web Site Statement on Suskind Book is Mine
Rob Richer, the former CIA official at the center of sensational charges that the White House ordered the spy agency to fabricate a document tying Iraq to the 9/11 attacks, repeated today that author Ron Suskind gravely misrepresented their interview [...]
Islamist Extremism’s Rising Challenge to Morocco
While individual Moroccans have been involved with violent Islamist groups for nearly three decades in places as far afield as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Indonesia, and Iraq, only recently has the jihadist campaign been brought home. In some respects, the militancy is not surprising.
From Shneier On Security
Too detailed for campaign speeches or even position papers, these ideas are essential for improving information security in our society. Actually, they apply to national security in general. And they’re things only government can do.
From In Case of Emergency Read Blog
The British government says that the release of the national security threat rankings is just the beginning of a new effort to communicate these threats to the public. Blogger believes America should do the same.
From In Case of Emergency Read Blog
In a blog posting titled “Crises Tracking on Twitter: The Benefits -and Dangers- of New Media,” Jeremiah (Jeremiah Owyang, a Senior Research Analyst at Forrester Research), offers a helpful narrative of how citizen ‘tweets’, photos and videos reported the story.
Mexican Army Crosses Border, Accosts B.P. Agent - PoliceLink
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.
ABC News: New Zawahri Tape; He Speaks English
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for Pakistanis to support jihad in his first ever audio statement in English, which aired today on a Pakistani television station, according to IntelCenter, a Washington-based firm that tracks terrorism.
The Washington Institute For Near East Policy
Drug Trafficking and Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups: A Growing Nexus?
Featuring Michael Braun
July 25, 2008
On July 18, 2008, Michael Braun, assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), addressed a special policy forum at The Washington Institute. Mr. Braun, a career special agent and a [...]
Leadership Journal: Answering Questions on Border Laptop Searches
We’ve received several comments from readers regarding my recent post about laptop searches at the border. I’d like to take a few minutes to try to answer some of your questions and set straight some misinformation that is circulating with regard to this long-standing policy.
New Study Indicates Voters Reward Politicians Who Push Disaster Relief Not Disaster Preparedness
When most of us think of what we should be doing to prepare for disasters, we often forget that exercising our role as citizens and voters can be as important as the more well known tasks like storing emergency supplies or creating a [...]
Counterterrorism Blog: Islamic Landscape: South and South East Asia
My paper titled “South Asia: Hotbed of Islamic Terrorism”, published in the latest issue of the NBR Analysis (The National Bureau of Asian Research, Vol. 19 (4), August 2008, explores the rising menace of Islamic extremism in South Asia while discussing key terrorist groups, networks, and emerging [...]
Commentary: Suspend Saudi Arabia’s Olympic Team :: Articles by IPT :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Notwithstanding the Olympics’ explicit rules against all forms of discrimination, the Saudi government decided to ban its women from participating in the Olympic games that began today in Beijing.
From CPB Deputy Commissioner Jayson Ahern on DHS’ Leadership Journal blog:
We’ve received several comments from readers regarding my recent post about laptop searches at the border. I’d like to take a few minutes to try to answer some of your questions and set straight some misinformation that is circulating with regard to this long-standing policy.
First, [...]
From Noah Schactman at WIRED’s Danger Room:
Better late than never, I suppose. For the last five years, some of us have argued that the government’s biodefense priorities are screwed up, massively. Research into largely-theoretical bio threats has sucked up money from tackling real killers, like tuberculosis. In fact, the biggest threat may be from the [...]
Homeland Security Watch on the anthrax suicide case:
The LA Times is reporting the suicide death of the bioweapons scientist employed at Ft. Detrick who was considered by the FBI to be the suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and severely sickened 17 others. Steven Hatfill? Nope.
The LA Times report said the [...]
From Jeff Stein’s Spytalk:
Perhaps not since Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Russian mole at a hearing 60 years ago next week has a journalist made more waves from the witness table than the press gallery.
But when controversial reporter/author/blogger/anti-terrorist crusader Steven Emerson testifies today at a hearing on Islamist groups and U.S. [...]
From the Counterterrorism Blog:
A new Rand Corporation report on the end of terrorist organizations supports the views that police and law enforcement tools are generally more effective than military force in countering most options.
This useful report focuses on how various terrorist groups have ended their activities. It said that by analyzing the 648 terrorist groups [...]
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