Results for “Intelligence Squared (UK) Ltd”

…here can be little doubt that his breach of the secrecy envelope had serious consequences for U.S., French, and British intelligence. For example, Francois Molins, the former head prosecutor of Paris, pointed out that after the Paris attacks the French investigation had run into...

…on. This interest continued in other books of mine, including Decep- tion, in which I investigated the vulnerability of intelligence services involved in espionage during the Cold War, and Agency of Fear (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977), in which I explored intelligence fail...

… Hawking, Max Tegmark, and numerous others, has insisted that attention be paid to the potential dangers in creating an intelligence on the superhuman (or even the human) level—an AGI, or artificial general intelligence, whose programmed purposes may not necessarily align with ou...

124 In view of such past successes of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem ex...

…ENTS oO 0 0 0 0 The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it agreed to brief House Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official conf...

…, they made online bookings for quarters in Paris for the nine attackers, Even though Abaaoud was well-known to Western intelligence services, none of the communications surrounding the preparations for the attack came to the attention of the NSA or its allied services in Europe....

…reas, I could go—I mean I don’t look that great now—but I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity…” “Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understatement, “you are going to...

…s of radio waves. Once Snowden exposed this technology, and the radio frequency transmission it used, America lost this intelligence capability. In addition, a considerable number of the published documents did not even belong to the NSA but were copies of reports sent to the NS...

…Yoffe’s orders as a gasoline thief. Had we been captured on the Golan, the very future of the sayeret as an operational intelligence unit would have been put at risk. Tzur, and Ben-Gurion as well, would have faced a reopening of all the old wounds from the Uri Ilan mission. But n...

… post-human future. So even if SETI searches revealed some artificial emission, we’d be most unlikely to ‘catch’ alien intelligence in the brief sliver of time when it was still in organic form. I think it’s less likely be a decodable message than to be a byproduct (or even a ma...

…tity servicing a computer system at a backwater NSA base in Hawaii. He had emerged from the shadowy world of electronic intelligence to become one of the most famous whistle-blowers in modern history. It was a mantle that would allow him to also become a leading advocate of priva...

…reas, I could go—I mean I don’t look that great now—but I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity…” “Well,” says Pierce in some dramatic understatement, “you are going to hav...

…ery different story. According to a unanimous report declassified on Dec. 22 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the investigation showed that Mr. Snowden had “removed” (not merely touched) 1.5 million documents. That huge number was based on, among other evi...

…extension of American dominance. Yet, there was still an immense gap between it and the United States in communications intelligence. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the NSA had continued to build up its technologically capabilities while those of Russia, which teetered...

…until 2013. It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James Woolsey, a former director of CIA, and Lieutenant General James Clapper (ret), who la...