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Rafsanjani Proved That Pragmatism Couldn’t Moderate Iran
With the death of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran’s former president and its preeminent fixer, the Islamic Republic has begun the most consequential leadership transition in its four-decade history. R... -
Empirical Data on the Privacy Paradox
The contemporary debate about the effects of new technology on individual privacy centers on the idea that privacy is an eroding value. The erosion is ongoing and takes place because of the government an... -
Water Wars: Sparks (and Planes) Fly as Countries Contest Access to the Seas
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Why Are the Trump Allegations Hanging Around When They Haven’t Been Substantiated?
What is one to make of the apparent inability of press and government alike to verify the allegations in the Trump dossier combined with the cache of documents’ apparent staying power? -
Tillerson Channels Reagan on South China Sea
On January 11, Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson testified in his hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that perhaps the United States should deny China access to its artificial is... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The fallout continues from the dossier of allegations on President-elect Trump’s ties to Russia. After the President-elect likened the intelligence community’s handling of the matter to “Nazi Germany,” D... -
E.O. 12333 Raw SIGINT Availability Procedures: A Quick and Dirty Summary
Earlier this afternoon we flagged the Obama administration's new Executive Order 12333 rules governing Intelligence Community (IC) access to and use of raw signals intelligence (SIGINT). -
Office of the Inspector General to Investigate DOJ and FBI on Pre-election Actions
Today the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced that it is launching a review of allegations regarding actions by the Department of Justice and the FBI in the runup to the 2016 election. The pr... -
Obama Administration Releases Long Awaited New E.O. 12333 Rules on Sharing of Raw Signals Intelligence Information Within IC
The New York Times reported this morning that the Obama administration has put into place new rules allowing the NSA to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information.” According to a 23-page, mostly ... -
Rational Security: The "Golden Bombshell" Edition
The FBI and intelligence community have received explosive allegations that Donald Trump’s staff had contacts with Russian government officials connected to the recent hacking campaign, and that the Russ... -
ISIL’s Human Shields in Mosul and the U.S. Response
In the coming days, Iraqi forces will be mounting a new advance into eastern Mosul. U.S. troops have provided air support to Iraqi and Kurdish forces throughout the Mosul offensive and will likely conti... -
Israel and Hamas -- The Face of Info Ops Today
The Washington Post has this report today on how information operations work in modern conflict. Hamas has been trolling Israeli soldiers on social media in order to gain personal information about them...
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