Nick Rasmussen’s Leak Interviews
This is a detail I’ve meant to post on for some time, but the discussion of ODNI’s latest on leaks has finally prompted me to point to this detail. As part of the standard questionnaire for...
View ArticleJournalist Records from the “Last Five Years”
Some weeks ago, there was some concern raised by DOJ’s response to an October 10, 2017 letter from Ron Wyden, written in the wake of an August Jeff Sessions press conference asking how many times DOJ...
View ArticleWas Inspire a British-Made Product?
Amid a longer story about one-time Brits stripped of their citizenship and handled according to the Administration Disposition Matrix, Ian Cobain fills out the story of Minh Quang Pham (whose identity...
View ArticleWell, at Least DOJ Promised Not to Mine Journalists’ Metadata Going Forward
When I read this passage from DOJ’s new News Media Policy, it caused me as much concern as relief. The Department’s policies will be revised to provide formal safeguards regarding the proper use and...
View ArticleIf Only DOJ Hadn’t Burned AP’s Sources …
The State Department announced a broad but vague warning today. The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North...
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The Kiddie Porn and the UndieBomb
I was at a funeral Monday and Tuesday. So when I heard the FBI had busted the guy who leaked the UndieBomb 2.0 story, I assumed they had finally arrested John Brennan. But, as bmaz emphasized in his...
View ArticleDianne Feinstein’s Pre-UndieBomb Thinking
A whole bunch of people have pilloried Dianne Feinstein’s defense of the phone dragnet and related programs. But one bizarre argument I haven’t seen challenged is the underlying logic of this passage....
View ArticleDHS Fear-Mongers Off Apparent Diminishment in Ibrahim al-Asiri’s Skills
The Department of Homeland Security wants you to be afraid of the latest handiwork of AQAP’s bomb-maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri. They’ve issued a warning (and leaked that warning) about new-and-improved shoe...
View ArticleDOJ’s Reaffirmation of Journalist NSLs and the Undiebomb 2.0 and StuxNet...
Given Friday’s news that DOJ’s “new” media guidelines continue to permit FBI to use National Security Letters to obtain journalists’ contact information, I’d like to return to the apparent results of...
View ArticleThe (Other Possibility) Inert UndieBomb 2.0
I’m cleaning up my desk so I wanted to return to something in this transcript from John Brennan’s May 7, 2012 conference call with his predecessors at White House czar in attempt to pre-empt the AP’s...
View ArticleIf UndieBomb 2.0 Is One of the Worst Leaks of Holder’s Career, Why Is John...
In a press conference today, Eric Holder didn’t let recusal from the UndieBomb 2.0 leak investigation stop him from commenting on it. Among other things, he claimed this one of the most serious leaks...
View ArticleAP Response to DOJ Reveals They COULDN’T Have Had Most Damaging Info Brennan...
The AP has a scathing reply to Deputy Attorney General’s claim that the subpoena he signed fulfilled DOJ guidelines on scope and notice. Among other details, it reveals the AP only learned via Cole’s...
View ArticleI Wonder What Fahd Al-Quso Thought of the AP’s UndieBomb 2.0 Story?
It turns out Fahd al-Quso, whom the government alleged was Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s external operations director when he was killed in a drone strike May 6 of last year, never lived to see...
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There’s a Place for Resolving Disputes, and the Administration Chose Not To...
As I was writing my flurry of posts on the AP call record seizure yesterday, former National Security Council Spokesperson Tommy Vietor and I were chatting about the facts of the case on Twitter. He...
View ArticleDid Tommy Vietor Hang Out CIA on UndieBomb 2.0?
The same day that the White House released 94 pages of Benghazi emails, which not only show that most at CIA supported the talking points used by the Administration but also include annotations of the...
View ArticleDid AP Learn about Fake UndieBomb 2.0 because Real Marshals Deployed to...
In my next post, I’m going to revisit this post, where I showed 372 days ago that at least one or two of the major early sources for the most damning information on UndieBomb 2.0 came from non-US based...
View ArticleThe Laughable Currently Operative AP Pushback Story
It has taken several days for the government — apparently, almost exclusively DOJ — to try to spin its secret seizure of AP call records. The new version of the government’s ever-evolving story is that...
View ArticleWhy Would the US Shield Fahd al-Quso in February 2012 But Drone Kill Him in...
On February 10, 2012, the government went out of its way to hide Fahd al-Quso’s ongoing involvement in terrorist attacks against the US. Three months later, on May 6, 2012 — the day before the AP...
View ArticleThe Reason Holder Recused in UndieBomb 2.0 Probably Relates to Reasons He...
A lot of people are responding furiously with what should not be news: that Eric Holder approved the warrants in the investigation into Fox report James Rosen’s story. Attorney General Eric Holder...
View ArticleMichael Hayden, Troll Extraordinaire
“Intelligence agencies often act on the edges of executive prerogative and move forward based on a narrow base of lawfulness and limited congressional notification,” says Michael Hayden, the guy who...
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