http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:45:39 -0700 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:51:34 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m10d19-CIAs-computers-stumble-over-security-obsession?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner US Enigma machine replica at US National Cryptologic Museum Mark Pellegrini/Wikimedia  The last time I turned on a CIA computer, which was about ten years ago, it took a half hour or so for it to boot up, prompt me for a bunch of passwords, an... intelligence CIA national security 9/11 Commission DNI overclassification outsourcing National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:51:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m10d19-CIAs-computers-stumble-over-security-obsession?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d23-US-Consulate-in-Dubai-key-intelligence-post?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)  Former AP correspondent Jim Krane notes in his new book, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, that the US Consulate in Dubai has proven so valuable to US intelligence that CIA lobbied to keep the facilit... intelligence CIA State Department Iran Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:58:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d23-US-Consulate-in-Dubai-key-intelligence-post?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d18-DNI-Blair-releases-strategy-document-talks-budget?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Adm Dennis Blair / Official Portrait  Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair released the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy this week, and dropped the overall national intelligence budget figure in a conference call with reporters.&n... cyberspace policy intelligence espionage FBI national security DNI Blair Obama administration outsourcing National Intelligence Strategy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:33:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d18-DNI-Blair-releases-strategy-document-talks-budget?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d17-CIAs-economic-analysis-not-this-fad-again?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner   The Central Intelligence Agency wants National Public Radio listeners to know that it is doing its bit to respond to the global economic crisis. The Obama administration's top economic policy makers are taking a daily Central Intelligence Ag... NSA intelligence CIA national security Obama administration economic intellgence Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:17:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d17-CIAs-economic-analysis-not-this-fad-again?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Yoos-bad-lawyering-not-investigations-threatens-CIA?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Protesters confront John Yoo. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Bush administration lawyer John Yoo's latest screed in the Philadelphia Inquirer relies on false arguments and conservative intelligence folklore to blast John Durham's inquiry into CIA's torture ... intelligence CIA rendition national security torture Obama administration Department of Justice detention Holder special prosecutor Yoo IG Torture Report Church Committee Bush John Durham Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:21:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Yoos-bad-lawyering-not-investigations-threatens-CIA?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d15-NGA-employee-accessed-sensitive-data-faces-charges?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner  A Federal court in Virginia charged Brian Keith Montgomery, an analyst assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for unauthorized access to classified computer information, reports Kevin Poulsen on wired.com's Threat Level blog... intelligence espionage national security domestic surveillance security clearance National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:21:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d15-NGA-employee-accessed-sensitive-data-faces-charges?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Secrecy-claim-stops-CIADEA-bugging-case-again?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner U.S. District Court Judge Royce LamberthNow an update on earlier posts on the case of a former Drug Enforcement Agency officer who accused a Central Intelligence Agency officer of bugging his house back in the nineties:  Devlin Barrett of the As... intelligence CIA Obama administration Department of Justice Holder Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:43:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Secrecy-claim-stops-CIADEA-bugging-case-again?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-UK-terror-case-NSA-intercepts-had-warrants?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner US National Security Agency surveillance of email played a key role in the investigation and conviction this week in the United Kingdom of three men who planned to bomb airliners using liquid explosives, and that electronic surveillance was authori... NSA national security domestic surveillance Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:14:39 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-UK-terror-case-NSA-intercepts-had-warrants?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-CIA-Director-Panetta-to-meet-ArabAmerican-leaders?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)  The Detroit Free Press reports that CIA Director Leon Panetta and a delegation of senior CIA managers will meet with Middle Eastern community leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, a Detroit suburb, next week.&nbsp... CIA national security Leon Panetta Congress foreign language Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-CIA-Director-Panetta-to-meet-ArabAmerican-leaders?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-ExCIA-chief-Hayden-to-declassification-post-skeptics?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Michael Hayden / Stephen Lee Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden has been appointed to the Public Interest Declassification Board, reported Steven Aftergood yesterday on the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News blog.  Hayden'... NSA intelligence CIA national security Hayden Obama administration domestic surveillance overclassification ACLU IG Torture Report Bush Public Interest Declassification Board Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:11:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d11-ExCIA-chief-Hayden-to-declassification-post-skeptics?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Lithuania-brushes-off-secret-CIA-prison-report?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Vilnius, Lithuania / Mantas Indrašius  Citing lack of evidence, the security and foreign affairs committees in Lithuania's parliament moved Thursday to reject an official inquiry into reports that the country hosted a clandestine CI... intelligence CIA rendition national security detention Lithuania Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:05:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Lithuania-brushes-off-secret-CIA-prison-report?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Legal-help-for-US-employee-accused-in-Italy-rendition?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Abu Omar Surveillance Photo / wikimedia  Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein reported last week that the Department of Justice reversed course and will now pay for the legal defense of Sabrina DeSousa, a former Federal employee who is on trial... intelligence CIA rendition Abu Omar State Department national security Obama administration Department of Justice Holder special prosecutor Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:19:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Legal-help-for-US-employee-accused-in-Italy-rendition?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d4-GOP-cherrypicks-new-CIA-leak-probe?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Christopher Bond / US Senate The Central Intelligence Agency has requested a Department of Justice investigation into improper disclosure of information on its secret program to assassinate terrorists, which CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed to C... intelligence CIA national security Leon Panetta torture Congress Obama administration Department of Justice FOIA IG Torture Report Bush Senate Kit Bond Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:08:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d4-GOP-cherrypicks-new-CIA-leak-probe?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d3-The-discreet-charms-of-CIA-morale?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner WikimediaOpponents of accountability for intelligence excesses, such as former officials and media commentators speaking out against Attorney General Eric Holder’s recently announced inquiry into CIA’s torture and detention program, compl... intelligence CIA rendition national security Leon Panetta torture Hayden DNI Obama administration Department of Justice detention outsourcing Holder special prosecutor IG Torture Report Bush Blackwater John Durham Porter Goss Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:48:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m9d3-The-discreet-charms-of-CIA-morale?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d31-CIA-IG-Report-Plus-One-Week?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner AP Photo/CIANearly a week after the release of the oft-delayed and much anticipated 2004 Central Intelligence Agency inspector general report, and analysis and reporting confirm much of what critics suspected, as well as raise new questions about the... intelligence CIA rendition national security Leon Panetta torture Hayden Obama administration Department of Justice detention Holder special prosecutor Yoo IG Torture Report Bush David Passaro Joseph Finder John Durham Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:25:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d31-CIA-IG-Report-Plus-One-Week?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d28-Panetta-CIA-to-pay-legal-defense-costs?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File The Central Intelligence Agency will cover the legal costs of employees who come under investigative scrutiny as a result of the inquiry into detention and torture during the Bush administration announced earlier t... intelligence CIA national security Leon Panetta torture Hayden Obama administration Department of Justice detention Holder special prosecutor IG Torture Report Bush John Durham Porter Goss Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:36:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d28-Panetta-CIA-to-pay-legal-defense-costs?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Judge-to-CIA-give-attorneys-security-clearances?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth  The Federal judge overseeing the recently re-opened case  of a Drug Enforcement Agency employee who claims his home was bugged by a Central Intelligence Agency officer told CIA that the plaintiff a... intelligence CIA national security Department of Justice state secrets privilege security clearance Royce Lamberth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:37:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Judge-to-CIA-give-attorneys-security-clearances?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Old-CIA-problems-dog-new-interrogation-group?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner Assistant to the President John Brennan / wikimediaThe announcement that a new interagency intelligence unit, the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, will take charge of terrorist detention and interrogation is a further sign of CIA&rsqu... intelligence CIA rendition FBI national security Leon Panetta torture DNI Blair Obama administration Department of Justice detention outsourcing Brennan Holder special prosecutor IG Torture Report Bush Joseph Finder HIG TAC INSA Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:15:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Old-CIA-problems-dog-new-interrogation-group?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Bushs-politicized-terror-alerts-media-daggers-drawn?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, FileLast week, when Paul Bedard wrote in his Washington Whispers column on the US News & World Report  Web site that former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge reveals in his upcoming tell-all book that the Bush ... intelligence national security DHS Bush Color-coded terrorism alerts Tom Ridge Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:19:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Bushs-politicized-terror-alerts-media-daggers-drawn?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Holder-names-special-prosecutor-familiar-with-CIA?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner AP Photo/Susan WalshAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will appoint John Durham, who is currently investigating the Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of torture videotapes, as a special prosecutor who will conduct a preliminary review ... intelligence CIA rendition national security torture Obama administration Department of Justice Holder special prosecutor IG Torture Report Bush HIG John Durham Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:12:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13426-CIA-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Holder-names-special-prosecutor-familiar-with-CIA?cid=exrss-CIA-Examiner