THREATWATCH
The Department of State is reexamining its reasoning for accepting the absolute lowest bidder when it secures its diplomatic facilities abroad; at the same time it endeavors to make the Top Secret networks available to the intelligence community in select diplomatic enclaves.
A formerly-secret President’s Intelligence Advisory Board report says the Defense Clandestine Service was created to resource intelligence collection in Latin America and Africa because the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Clandestine Service refused to do so.
Amnesty International was raided in Moscow by the Russian government.
The Syrian rebels are receiving arms, directly or indirectly, from the Central Intelligence Agency, contrary to recent media reports.
ON THE FORCE
A reserve Navy Captain at the Naval Operational Support Center has been fired for conduct unbecoming an officer (and a gentleman).
Due to sequestration, the Navy must curtail or cancel the deployments of at least five vessels.
POTOMAC TWO-STEP
As it turns out, even the largest defense contractors weren’t always so mysterious or hard to crack.
ON TECH
Lockheed Martin has helped develop possibly the most powerful quantum computer in the world — until China decides to steal it.
ON SECRECY – OR LACK THEREOF
Chairman Feinstein is not pleased the drones meandering over Yemen and Pakistan may move from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Department of Defense, specifically the Joint Special Operations Command (as rumored).
The rush for oil and resources in the Eastern Mediterranean has begun.
Veteran reporter Jeff Stein argues that the temerity of the Obama administration when it comes to hunting down leakers will ultimately come back to haunt them.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s internal report on women’s initiatives has been released.
The detainees at Guantanamo Naval Station have enough time on their hands that they’ve resorted to painting in their spare time.
Despite purporting to be the SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden, the infamous shooter who talked to Esquire wasn’t the guy after all, raising questions about whether or not the general public will ever truly know the identity of the man who felled America’s nightmare.
