News you may have missed #356
May 21, 2010 1 Comment
- US intel failures facilitated Christmas bomb plot: Senate report. The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a summary (.pdf) of their investigation into the so-called Christmas bomb plot of last December. The report concludes that the would-be bomber was effectively assisted by “systemic failures across the Intelligence Community”.
- More alleged Korean double spies dispute charges. Inspired by the case of the late Lee Soo-geun, who was shot by South Korea after being falsely charged with spying for North Korea, more alleged South Korean double spies are coming forward to reveal that, like Lee, their incriminating confessions were extracted through torture.
- Israeli IDF soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy. A number of Israeli soldiers fell victim to a Facebook spy scam, according to German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. The Israel Defense Forces members appear to have befriend a young woman on the social networking site, who may have been a Hezbollah operative. This is not the first time this has happened.
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Analysis: Axing of US DNI points to structural issues
May 24, 2010 by intelNews 1 Comment
Dennis Blair
By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org |
Although few American intelligence observers were astonished by last week’s involuntary resignation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the silence by the White House on the subject has raised quite a few eyebrows in Washington. Admiral Dennis C. Blair, who became DNI in January of 2009, announced his resignation on Friday. Blair’s announcement came after a prolonged period of controversy, which included bitter infighting with the CIA, and culminated with the recent partial publication of a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which blamed “systemic failures across the Intelligence Community” for the so-called Christmas bomb plot of last December. The problem is that Admiral Blair’s replacement will be the fourth DNI in five years, after John Negroponte, Mike McConnell and Blair himself. Read more of this post
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