If Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee want to publicly release a classified memo that they prepared on alleged misconduct in the FBI, what could be wrong with that? Quite…
Read moreThe new budget law that keeps the government open for the next three weeks includes a provision that would permit the transfer and spending of intelligence funds during that period…
Read moreDirector of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats last month issued a newly revised directive that details intelligence community procedures for dealing with leaks of classified information. See…
Read moreExcessive compartmentalization of intelligence can be counteracted by the use of “portfolios” of compartmented programs, according to new intelligence community guidance. Undue secrecy in intelligence is not only a barrier…
Read moreWe were sad to learn that intelligence historian Jeffrey T. Richelson passed away last weekend. Richelson was one of a small number of pioneers of a new genre of public…
Read moreWhat constitutes an act of war in the cyber domain? It’s a question that officials have wrestled with for some time without being able to…
Read moreChanges in classification practices at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are expected to yield improvements in the quality of national security classification decisions and to lead to reductions in classification…
Read moreDo the security clearance procedures that are used for granting access to classified information actually serve their intended purpose? To help answer that question, the Senate Intelligence Committee mandated a…
Read moreExecutive branch agencies that are not part of the US Intelligence Community (IC) can still get access to classified intelligence and to IC information technology systems under certain conditions. But…
Read moreThe Defense Intelligence Agency yesterday launched a new series of unclassified publications on foreign military threats to the United States with a report on the…
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