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Facts and fears : hard truths from a life in intelligence
\"The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation during the 2016 U.S. election campaign. In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of cyberattacks, his relationships with presidents and Congress, and the truth about Russia's role in the presidential election. He describes, in the wake of Snowden and WikiLeaks, his efforts to make intelligence more transparent and to push back against the suspicion that Americans' private lives are subject to surveillance. Finally, it was living through Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and seeing how the foundations of American democracy were--and continue to be--undermined by a foreign power that led him to break with his instincts honed through more than five decades in the intelligence profession to share his inside experience. Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting themselves into policy decisions? Facts and Fears offers a privileged look inside the U.S. intelligence community and, with the frankness and professionalism for which James Clapper is known, addresses some of the most difficult challenges in our nation's history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cyber espionage and the S.P.I.E.S. taxonomy
Cyber Espionage has been identified as an activity which has the potential of costing the world economy billions of dollars and significant employment losses. On a global basis, companies find their intellectual properties and trade secrets subject to cyber attack by government actors, competitors, employees and agent provocateurs. This paper seeks to document and analyze the anatomy and emerging threats of cyber espionage through development of the S.P.I.E.S. taxonomy (Situational Threats, Penetration Methodologies, Information Targets, Enforcement of Espionage Laws and Security Vulnerabilities).
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US: No nukes in N. Korea 'a lost cause' - US
\"I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearise is probably a lost cause,\" [James Clapper] said at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York on Tuesday. \"They are not going to do that - that is their ticket to survival.\"
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Intelligence Community Faces a Future of Increasing Complexity
Senior intelligence officials, including FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan, touched on a variety of issues other than cybersecurity and the presidential election during the event. On the terrorism topic, Comey believes it is the threat that will dominate intelligence efforts during at least the next five years and will be the result of \"crushing\" of the Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq and the surviving \"hardened killer\" militants who will flow into Europe to carry out attacks. \"And of course, technology will continue to be disruptive. Just think about the fact that Uber is the biggest taxi company in the world, and they don't own any cars. Airbnb is the biggest hotel company, and they don't own any properties. It is difficult to predict how technology will affect national security,\" [James Clapper] said. \"Tech areas like artificial intelligence, health care and agricultural, self-driving cars and 3-D printing have the potential to revolutionize our lives for the better or they could present vulnerabilities that are very hard to predict.\"
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SECURITY: U.S. INTELLIGENCE SEES CYBER THREATS ECLIPSING TERRORISM
On other issues, the \"Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community\", as the report is called, noted that the so-called \"Arab Spring\" had \"unleashed destabilizing ethnic and sectarian rivalries\" across the Middle East and that new governments there faced major challenges in controlling \"ungoverned spaces\" and overcoming economic hardship. The IC was particularly concerned with \"cyber attacks\" - defined as a \"non-kinetic offensive operation intended to create physical effects or manipulate disrupt, or delete data\" - and \"cyber espionage\". While he said there is only a \"remote chance\" of a major cyber attack against U.S. critical infrastructure systems that could, for example, cause a regional power outage during the next two years and that the most advanced cyber actors \"such as Russia and China\" are unlikely to launch one outside an actual military conflict, isolated state or non-state actors could deploy less-sophisticated attacks against poorly protected U.S. networks.
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U.S. Warns Businesses to Watch for Russian Cyberattacks; The Chilling Similarities of Russian & U.S. Right-Wing TV Coverage. Aired 8-8:30a ET
Yesterday, after President Biden gave his speech, detailing newsanctions against Russia, the senior FBI and cyber official convened acall with local governments and businesses, telling them to becognizant of the possibility of ransomware attacks. Russian TVhighlighting Mike Pompeo's praise of Vladimir Putin as tensions heatup in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. So, does the right wing rhetoricend support of Vladimir Putin? GUESTS: Julia Davis
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Pentagon News Conference as Tensions Rise over Russia & Ukraine; Ukraine-Russia Crisis: What Does Everyone Want?; \Traffic Stop, Dangerous Encounters,\ Airs 9:00 P.M. Sunday Night. Aired 1:30- 2p ET
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen.Mark Milley, give a news conference at the Pentagon as tensions riseover Russia and Ukraine. A look at all of the different playersinvolved in the Russia/Ukraine crisis, and what the differentcountries wants. \"Traffic Stop, Dangerous Encounters\" airs Sundaynight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, and examines how African-American driversare stopped more frequently for minor offenses and can end up in jailand in debt.
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US intelligence chief arrives in South Korea for talks on North
Seoul, 14 May: The chief of the US intelligence office is in South Korea for talks with officials on security issues, including North Korea's nuclear programs, a military source in Seoul said Wednesday. James Clapper, director of National Intelligence (DNI), arrived in Seoul the previous day to hold a series of talks with senior officials, including Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, according to the Seoul source.
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US spy chief warns Al-Shabab planning attacks in Kenya, several countries
\"Al-Shabab could launch attacks on Djibouti, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya, countries that have all made military interventions in Somalia\", said [James Clapper].
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