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Intelligence Affairs

Mar 28, 2009: ‘Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cyber Warfare , Intelligence Affairs
“Tracking ‘GhostNet’: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network,” a research project conducted by the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, in Canada, has exposed a massive, electronic spy operation in which the spies have “infiltrated at least...

Jul 25, 2007: President Bush Still Using Al-Qaeda to Justify U.S.-British Invasion of Iraq
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs , Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
(Editor's note: Below are excerpts from a speech that U.S. President George W. Bush delivered at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 24, 2007. The portion on Al-Qaeda in Iraq is presented so readers of The...

Nov 20, 2006: Is Russian Intelligence Using Same Tactics Under Different Name?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs , Russian Affairs
British writer and journalist Martin Sixsmith reported November 21, 2006, in The Guardian that, "The near-unanimity with which the world concluded that Russia's security services were behind the poisoning of Aleksander Litvinenko suggests that the reputation of the KGB has...

Oct 2, 2006: McClatchy: CIA Briefed 9/11 Commission On Al-Qaida Attack Warning
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
Jonathan S. Landay, a reporter in McClatchy Newspapers' highly regarded Washington Bureau, reported October 2, 2006, that, "The independent Sept. 11, 2001, commission was given the same “scary” briefing about an imminent al Qaida attack on a U.S. target that...

Sep 13, 2006: The National Security Surveillance Act
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
Ryan Singel at Wired News reports that "A bill radically redefining and expanding the [U.S.] government's ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday [February 13, 2006], and may...

Sep 8, 2006: Bulgaria Denies Hosting Secret CIA Prison
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
The Associated Press reported September 7, 2006 from Constanta, Romania, that, "Romanian authorities" in the Black Sea port of Constanta, which is "alleged to have hosted a secret CIA prison, said there was no proof such a facility existed but...

Sep 7, 2006: The CIA's Detention Camps In Europe
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
On January 22, 2006, Dick Marty, Rapporteur for the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights" "issued Information Memorandum II" on "Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states. The 25-page report suggest that...

Sep 7, 2006: ISN Watch On 'Secret Prisons, Human Rights And Elections'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Asymmetrical Warfare , Intelligence Affairs
Jen Alic and Rashunda Tramble at ISN Security Watch, the blog for the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), reported today that "U.S President George W Bush's announcement on Wednesday [September 6, 2006] that the CIA did indeed have secret...

Sep 6, 2006: Washington Post: CIA Officials Relieved Bush Revealed Secret Prisons
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
The Washington Post's Dana Priest reports in the September 7, 2006 edition of The Post that, "Employees at CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters stood transfixed at television sets yesterday [September 6, 2006] in a moment one senior official called...

Aug 16, 2006: National Intelligence Estimates On Iraq Will Likely Be Leaked
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs
Shaun Waterman, United Press International's (UPI) Homeland and National Security Editor, reported August 16, 2006 that, The secret National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, coming as it may just before November's election [in the United States], will be the focus of...