Former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden weighs in on the series of terror attacks in Beirut and Paris ...
Current and former government officials have been pointing to the terror attacks in Paris as justification for mass surveillance programs. CIA Director John Brennan accused...
Huffington Post 2015-11-20With her numbers flagging, the GOP candidate went on Fox News to reveal something ‘startling.’ But her revelation was either a serious fib or close to exposing classified...
The Daily Beast 2015-11-19During a recent Fox News interview, Carly Fiorina may have leaked classified CIA information about the number of agents the spy agency employs. Speaking with Megyn Kelly on...
The Wrap 2015-11-19Former BND foreign intelligence official Markus R said he felt he was running no risk by copying documents to scan at home and email to his CIA handlers A former employee...
The Guardian 2015-11-18
Is Edward Snowden at least partly to blame for the Paris attacks? CIA Director John Brennan certainly seems to think so. Snowden stole and made public a vast amount of information on US government surveillance — prompting a deluge of new privacy protections to rein in Uncle Sam’s snooping. In remarks Monday to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brennan said...
New York Post 2015-11-18Since the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday, most Republican presidential candidates have changed positions on whether they would accept Syrian refugees if they were the next president-elect. That's only natural because new information surfaced in the aftermath of last Friday's attack. Specifically, French authorities have verified that at least one of the ISIS terrorists...
The Examiner 2015-11-18By Glenn Greenwald November 17, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "The Intercept" -A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas. Focused on the public campaign of the CIA to manipulate post-Paris public emotions to demonize...
Information Clearing House 2015-11-18(Source: ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union ) It should go without saying that fear mongering, misinformation, and xenophobia aren't going to keep America safe. But that's not stopping some politicians from seizing the Paris attacks to put forward surveillance proposals that would erode our liberties while doing nothing to protect the country. They're also not grounded in...
Public Technologies 2015-11-20In response to the Paris attacks, a top U.S. intelligence official on Monday renewed a debate on government surveillance and privacy, denouncing “hand-wringing” over intrusive spying and saying that leaks of classified information had made it harder to identify terrorists. John O. Brennan, the director of the CIA, appeared to be speaking in part about the National Security...
The Miami Herald 2015-11-17(Source: Marco Rubio ) As Marco has repeatedly stated, America is at war with radical Islam and faces new threats to our security in the wake of the brutal attacks in Paris. Our intelligence agencies are on the front lines of that war. So we should be making sure they have the tools they need, not weakening our intelligence programs, right? Marco Rubio thinks so. That's why he...
Public Technologies 2015-11-17
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. The Director reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The Director is assisted by the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Director is a civilian or a general or flag officer of the armed forces nominated by the President, with the concurring or nonconcurring recommendation from the DNI, and must be confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate.
Before April 21, 2005, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) headed both the Intelligence Community and the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, DCI served as an advisor to the President of the United States on intelligence matters and was the statutory intelligence advisor to the National Security Council (NSC). On April 21, 2005, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) took on the roles as head of the Intelligence Community and principal intelligence advisor to the President and the NSC.
