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David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Eric Schmitt have a must-read NYT story on USG thinking about a response to the Sony hack, allegedly carried by the North Korean government. The story is jaw-dropping ...
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This week, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller gave a keynote address at Brookings on US Nuclear Arms Control Policy. In her address, Under Secretary Go...
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Lawfare picked up where it left off last week, reviewing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s study of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.
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The FBI said today of the Sony hack:
As a result of our investigation, . . . the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions.
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Now that the United States has concluded that North Korea was responsible for the hack into Sony’s computers, it has begun to make noises about responding to that hack in some way.
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Today, the FBI formally blamed North Korea for the cyberattack against Sony Pictures.
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I've written two essays on the Sony hack, one for the Wall Street Journal, and the other for Vice Motherboard.
The former opens:
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Pea...
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I want to begin my review of the SSCI interrogation report and the responses from the CIA and the SSCI minority by addressing the area in which, in my view, the majority report is strongest: the allegati...
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It’s now been 10 days since the release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) study of the CIA detainee program—almost certainly to be known to posterity as the...
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The Washington Post reports:
Avril D. Haines will become deputy to national security adviser Susan E.
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Twitter brings news of this interesting little order in United States v. Vargas. The court's opinion was authored by Judge Edward F. Shea and opens:
The first duty of government is the safety of its peo...
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The New York Times is reporting that American officials have concluded North Korea was “centrally involved” in the hacking attacks on Sony Pictures. Privately, Officials also note that the White House ha...
