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I awake this morning to two important stories in The Onion.
First, there's this must-read:
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By now almost everyone has read David Sanger’s fascinating New York Times story relating the behind-the-scenes story of the development and deployment of the Stuxnet virus as part of a larger classified ...
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At this hour, the military commissions chief prosecutor, Brigadier General Mark Martins, is giving the following address at Knox College:
Brigadier General Mark Martins
Commencement Address
Knox College...
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According to the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, only three of the 9/11 defendants weighed in on the question, put to the prosecution by Judge James Pohl, of why the men should not be tried separately.
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This morning, Paul flagged a Washington Post op-ed by Senators Coats, Rubio and Burr. The trio's piece concerns the improper revelation of national security secrets. As one example, the authors cite th...
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If she wasn't your favorite monarch before, she should be now. On the eve of the Diamond Jubilee:
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The D.C. Circuit today handed down a decision in a civil case concerning Col.
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Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program. One of the most provocative paragraphs is this one (w...
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Jack has already noted today's New York Times story attributing the Stuxnet virus to American and Israeli activity through the disclosure of a code word classified program known as Olympic Game. I'll ha...
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David Sanger discloses in the NYT that the United States and Israel were behind the computer worm attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that came to be known as Stuxnet. The story is based on non-attribu...
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Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has developed a Cybersecurity Wiki that is designed to be a curated, comprehensive, evolving, and interactive collection of resources for researchers (not ...
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The Washington Post has an interesting story today announcing that the CIA has opened an internal investigation into its prepublication review process:
The CIA has begun an internal investigation into wh...
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Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.
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The Washington Post had a fascinating story today about "Plan X" -- the program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to jump start research into new modes and methods of cyberw...
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Waaaay back in January, Ben noted that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani had filed his opening brief in his appeal to the Second Circuit. Ghailani is appealing his conspiracy conviction and life sentence for his ro...
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In all the last two days' coverage of the Obama administration's targeting program -- including this lengthy NYT piece, Dan Klaidman's book excerpt, and today's NYT editorial -- there's a remarkable lack...
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Look what’s shown up on the White House website: A petition to “create a ‘Do Not Kill” list in which American citizens can sign up to avoid being put on the president’s ‘kill list’ and therefore avoid be...
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As Wells mentioned, the next hearings in the 9/11 cases at Guantanamo have been scheduled. Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald reminds us that the hearings will take place during Ramadan.
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So reports Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald: Judge Pohl has set another hearing in United States v.
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Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.