More Details Emerge About Flame

Those following the Stuxnet/Flame story will be interested in this piece that just went up on the Washington Post website.  In a sequel to David Sanger's account attributing Stuxnet to an American-Israeli collaboration, today's piece by Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Julie Tate offers the same attribution as to Flame.   The piece is interesting as well for its suggestions that there are additional, as-yet-undisclosed cyberoperations underway and for the attention it pays not just to NSA but also to CIA's Information Operations Center (the story depicts both NSA and IOC as jointly working through the intel produced by Flame).  Oh, and then there's this quote, which no doubt was not meant to be a claim about the domestic legal categorization of these activities but that nonetheless is a fun mind-bender for those who might share my enthusiasm for the nuances of the TMA exception to the statutory definition of covert action:

“This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action,” said one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official...