“We have no evidence that the Russians are actually involved in trying to undermine our democratic processes at the moment.”
Foreign Minister Boris Johnson
NCSC Head Ciaran Martin
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — part of the GCHQ spying agency — has written a Cyber-Security report urging the leaders of political parties to protect themselves against potential cyber attacks. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Today, we see unfolding before our very eyes a Constitutional crisis of monumental proportions, one that threatens the very foundations of our nation’s system of governance.”
Former NSA Kirk Wiebe
Former NSA Kirk Wiebe
What follows is an article written by former senior NSA official and whistleblower Kirk Wiebe. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Do You Really Need More Information? The US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments.”
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Richards J. Heuer
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster
Lt. General H.R. McMaster — the newly designated National Security Advisor to President Trump — is known to be a brave soldier and a man who never hesitated to ‘speak truth to power’. General McMaster is also a brilliant intellectual who knows a few things about ‘Intelligence’. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.”
President John F. Kennedy.
“A people always ends by resembling its shadow. ” Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks began its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. Here is the official CIA statement regarding the claims made by WikiLeaks. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Fundamentalist terrorism is spreading to a worrying degree in other areas, such as Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Balkans.”
DIS — Annual Report 2016
Italy’s Intelligence System for the Security of the Republic
The 2016 annual report by the Italian Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS) emphasized that the risk of fundamentalists who want to conduct the jihad directly on Italian territory is becoming “increasingly acute”. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“SERIOUS ISSUES — Flynn has potentially problematic connections to foreign governments. His consulting firm has financial ties to Turkey… which perhaps explains why he said that he would extradite Fethullah Gullen… It has become evident that he has some confirmation-type problems.”
Intel Today — November 17 2016
Michael Flynn, Trump’s National Security Advisor, and Jill Stein attending the Russian State owned TV Gala as Putin’s guests (December 2015)
Mar 9, 2017 — At the White House press briefing, Fox News’ John Roberts asked Sean Spicer if President Donald Trump was aware that Mike Flynn was working as a foreign agent when he appointed him NSA. The White House press secretary answered that he did not believe that this information was known. This is no true as it was actually well known — prior to his appointment as NSA — that Flynn’s consulting work benefited the government of Turkey. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Trailblazer was canceled in 2006 and remains one of the worst failures in US intelligence history. But the money spent on this privatization scheme, like so much at the NSA, remains a state secret to this day.”
Former NSA Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis have endured years of legal harassment for exposing the waste and fraud behind a multibillion-dollar contract for a system called Trailblazer. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“One of the oldest domestic intelligence agencies in continuous existence is Belgium’s civil security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat or Surêté de l’Etat (VSSE).”
Kenneth L. Lasoen
Jaak Raes — Current Administrator-General of Belgian State Security Service VSSE
Because of a legal mistake, the officers of the Belgian State Security Service were not allowed to legally carry weapons for almost one year. The mistake was detected last month and several dangerous missions are said to have been cancelled. A new law — which corrects this mistake — is entering into force today (March 9 2017). Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“There are troubling early signs that cocaine availability is on the rise in the US for the first time in nearly a decade.”
US State Department — February 2017
Since 2000, the US has sent Bogotá more than US $10 billion in counter-narcotics and security assistance through the infamous ‘Plan Colombia’. The result is nil. Colombia’s cocaine production has remained ‘more or less’ constant over the last two decades. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“There’s been major crimes committed. What I’m concerned about is no one is focusing on major leaks that have occurred here… We can’t run a government like this. A government can’t function with massive leaks at the highest level.”
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)
Number of ‘leak’ cases per year reported to US DOJ
The number of crimes reports — i.e., referrals of suspected violations of criminal law — involving leaks of classified information for each of the last eight Calendar Years (CY) is stable despite Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
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