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The NSA‘s Back Door | 213 including the hacking culture. Ex-hackers who lacked (or shunned) employment opportunities in the corporate sector were suitable candidates for the system administrator jobs that these firms had contracted to supply the NSA. In the rush to expand, littl...

28 Intelligence Agency that the military files compromised by Snowden included documents bearing on military plans and weapons systems; foreign government’s intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources, or methods or cryptology; Scientific and te...

My job was to ensure the security not just of the Gush Emunim march but of the counter-demonstrators, and, of course, the local Palestinian population. As the rival marches by the Israelis proceeded, I personally delivered warnings against any violence, both to the settlement lea...

Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...

FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2015-2016 • Named to the Committees on Agriculture and Oversight and Government Reform • Named as the Freshman representative on the Democratic Leadership Steering and Policy Committee • Named by Southern Region as Regional Whip for Democrats • Named t...

…wers to sell billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia on national security grounds. Congress wants to stop the sale because of lingering anger over Saudi abuses and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the usurpation of its legal authority to review arms sal...

Secret Agent | 27 later say that the NSA experts who examined the documents that he had stolen were “totally incapable.” In any case, in February 2009, Snowden not only had a career- damaging “derog” in his file but faced an internal investigation of his suspicious computer act...

Debt Level: Why Will It Continue to Rise? Answer Part 1: Notional Social Security “Trust Fund” Surpluses Likely Turning Into Deficits Owing to Aging Population Social Security Cumulative Real Operating Surpluses / Deficits, 1982-2037E Cumulative Surpluses Projected Cumulative...

from the massacre was that the mix of Jewish settlers, some of whom felt they were on a messianic mission to resettle all of Biblical Israel, and restive Palestinians who wanted sovereignty and control over their own lives was potentially toxic, for both sides. Ideally, the proce...

Article 2. The New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri April 16, 2011 -- Yesterday was supposed to be the first day of what Syrian despot Ba shar al-Assad had dubbed "social calm"; he hoped his mixture of promises and repressive measures would silence the pro-democracy up...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians len" the democratic revolution from the Polish people by failing to carry out a proper purge of communists and their collaborators." PiS even initiated a cam- paign to sully the reputation of Lech W...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

…ion from Previous Slide e Clearly, lower interest rates have allowed Americans to borrow more and save less. But given the high correlation between rising entitlement income for beneficiaries and declining savings rates, one might also wonder if Americans feel less compelled to...

Article 4. NYT President Obama on Libya Editorial March 28, 2011 -- President Obama made the right, albeit belated, decision to join with allies and try to stop Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from slaughtering thousands of Libyans. But he has been far too slow to explain that decisio...

Epstein summons in the next person cooling his heels in the ante- room. It’s a young man named Brock Pierce, a former child actor, and dotcom high flyer—a principle in a gaming company called DEN, a notorious dotcom burnout, with its own sex scandal—who is now a leading investor...