A few days ago, I got a chance to watch Inception and enjoyed it very much. To Christopher Nolan’s credit, the film held me in such an almost pained state of suspense that, if I had been reading a book, I would have skipped ahead to the ending. In spite of the fact that I [...]
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Inception and the Fantasies of ‘Top Secret America’
Posted in Film & Television, Intelligence, tagged Christopher Nolan, CIA, Dana Priest, DARPA, Inception, James Bond, NSA, Perfect Citizen, The Matrix, Top Secret America, William M. Arkin on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Different Take on the al-Mabhouh Autopsy
Posted in Intelligence, tagged Assassination, Hamas, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Succinylcholine on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The assassination of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has received worldwide attention from the mainstream press to the national security blog circuit. A series of videos has emerged documenting the operation, and now CNN is covering the autopsy results (via “Thoughts of a Technocrat”): The killers of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh first injected him with [...]
Commission attempts to keep WMD threat on the minds of public, policymakers amidst economic crisis
Posted in Intelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction, tagged Annual Threat Assessment Hearing, Bob Graham, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence, Economic Crisis, Human Intelligence, Intelligence Community, Jim Talent, University of Florida, Weapons of Mass Destruction, World at Risk on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the 2000 Presidential Election, both George W. Bush and Al Gore raised the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) as the most pressing national security issue of the day. Since then, the specter of WMD has been a consistent presence in policy and rhetoric–most notably evoked as justification for the 2003 invasion of [...]
