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Let us take a headcount of recent events: the attack on the Ukraine’s electric grid, a LinkedIn data dump as a result of a 2012 breach, the information warfare campaign surrounding the US Elections, a peculiar “Google Docs” app involved in a massive spear-phishing campaign, and most recently, another information warfare campaign aimed at the […]
NumbersUSA – During a Facebook Live event on Sunday night Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) signed a bill banning sanctuary jurisdictions in the state of Texas. Texas is the first state to ban sanctuary cities. The bill will restrict cities, counties, and universities from prohibiting their local law enforcements agents from asking about a person’s immigration […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) today released May’s Terror Threat Snapshot, a monthly assessment of the Committee’s continuing effort to highlight the growing threat America, the West, and the world face from ISIS and other Islamist terrorists. Chairman Michael McCaul: “President Trump’s recent decisive action against ISIS in Syria shows that […]
Dark Web ‘Hidden Service’ Case Spawned Hundreds of Child Porn Investigations The creator and lead administrator of what was believed to be the world’s largest child pornography website—with more than 150,000 users around the world—was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison. Steven W. Chase, 58, of Naples, Florida, created a website called Playpen […]
Washington, D.C., May 3, 2017 – A Rand Corporation 1967 paper predicted many of the cyber dilemmas faced by policy makers today, and a 2017 expanded analysis of the “GRIZZLY STEPPE” hacking by Russian cyber operators disclosed key findings about the techniques the hackers used and ways to mitigate them, according to the National Security […]
Joint Statement by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Press Operations Past efforts have failed to halt North Korea’s unlawful weapons programs and nuclear and ballistic missile tests. With each provocation, North Korea jeopardizes stability in Northeast Asia and poses a growing threat to our […]
The author has mentioned for several months the reason for the recent failed missile launches of North Korea. There are two distinct causes and both point to the United States. They are cyber operations and electronic warfare. Over the past decade of conflict, the U.S. Army has deployed the most capable communications systems in its […]
President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night demonstrated yet again that he is now in complete control of America’s immigration agenda. At about the 24 minute mark, he begins to discuss immigration. It was short, sweet and to the point. The language is being widely celebrated as a shift in […]
The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office is following up on 29 recommendations it made to ensure intelligence analysis in U.S. Central Command remains unbiased and not politicized, the acting IG told a key congressional subcommittee. Glenn Fine, testifying Tuesday before the House Armed Services oversight and investigation subcommittee, said “we want specific details” on what CENTCOM […]
POWER CONSOLIDATION in ‘LAW ENFORCEMENT’ United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC AKA FISA Court) Established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Such requests are made most often by the […]
James Simpson I told you about what happened earlier this week when Fox News reported a secret meeting of #DisruptJ20, a collection of anarchist groups planning to disrupt the inaugural. The covert recording was a project of Matthew Vadum’s Capital Research Center to expose these leftists: That story was an intro to a 20 minute […]
Will the Trump administration change an archaic process? Nayla Rush Senior Researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies. Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. The latest United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettlement assessment report summarizes its 2015 activities and introduces its 2017 strategic direction and needs.1 At a time when refugee protection is […]