Monday churning
Gee, Maw, tell me again: how does this stimulate the economy? [For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here's the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good...
View ArticleTorture Witch Hunt Target #1 – Condoleezza Rice?
The rookie president is busy shredding the intelligence community, and my biggest gripe is I am not sure how much I should talk about it. But here is something from the UK press that indicates that...
View ArticleCIA Bites Back At Democrats
I actually laughed quite a bit when I first read this article in Politico, Democrats: CIA is out to get us Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on...
View ArticleDemocrats vs. CIA – You Can’t Win This One
Message to the Democrats in Congress, put down the stick and back slowly away from the CIA. There is a chance that if you do that, they might go back to looking for the bad guys and leave you alone....
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Second Nuclear Test
News overnight that North Korea conducted it’s second nuclear test at it’s test site near Kilju, in the north eastern part of their country. Early indications are that the shot was between 2 Kilotons...
View ArticleIran Closer To The Bomb Than We Thought
On November 5th, the UK Guardian revealed that members of the UN atomic watchdog agency, the IAEA, were seeking clarification from Iran on evidence that Iranian scientists had come into possession of...
View ArticleIndia’s New Nuclear Sub
The world is a dangerous place, and today that danger went up a notch. Our erstwhile allies, the Russians, have decided to lease a powerful Akula / Project 971 nuclear powered attack submarine to...
View ArticleNRO’s X-37B UAV Shuttle Stumps Astronomers
I have been watching with growing levels of delight as a community of amateur satellite hunters have been tracking one of our nation’s newest space platforms, known as the X-37B. In this age of...
View ArticleAll you need to know about our State Department
From conservative-mole-within-State, Diplomad: In the late-1990s, I was working in State’s Political-Military Bureau in Washington. One of our duties was to work with the Pentagon planning and...
View ArticleNSA: now gunning for college professors who blog
Via Michael Swaine (on Facebook) comes this Guardian story about the NSA apparently trying to silence a computer science professor blogging about possible encryption compromises: This actually...
View ArticleCuriouser and curiouser…. [MAJOR UPDATE]
[update: 03/09/15 1824 MDT] At this point, I consider Confluence Networks to be a dead-end with regards to the Clinton e-mails. Of course, it still remains a fascinating topic in and of itself, one I...
View ArticleWhere is (or was) the Clinton e-mail server?
[UPDATE 03/10/15 0826 MDT] Besides coming to the conclusion (for now, at least) that Confluence Networks is a dead-end, I also have a new post up in which someone with actual government experience...
View ArticlePhysical security of the Clinton e-mail sever
Not an actual photo of the Clinton server room at their house in Chappaqua.:-) I’ve raised in prior posts (here and here) the issue of physical security of the clintonemail.com e-mal server, which is...
View ArticleWhy and how e-mails matter (clintonemail.com)
Over a period of nearly 16 years — since mid-1999 — I have been retained repeatedly as a consulting and/or testifying expert in litigation involving information technology (IT). Roughly half of my...
View ArticleHillary’s Blackberry – Why It Makes Total Sense
Over at the amazing Ace of Spaces, we have this nugget of pursuit against the illegal and poorly thought out use of personal email by the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. As Bruce Webster...
View ArticleHow and why e-mails matter (clintonemail.com) [reposted]
[John Batchelor just interviewed me for his show tonight (8/24/15) and asked that I repost this entry from last March. It is more relevant now than ever, with the Department of Justice conducting an...
View ArticleTrump throws the brushback pitch
After Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States, he began to interview many different individuals for possible Cabinet and Administration positions. Immediately, there were nearly...
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