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…moment--by intelligent, literate people, from an ACLU official to a Peabody Award- winning journalist to members of the intelligence community who knew that sort of thing actually does go on. Daniel Ellsberg said, “Maybe it was just because | wanted to believe it so badly.” One...

… less an “electronic brain” than an adjunct organ in a kit of parts. There was not yet a ruling metaphor of “artificial intelligence.” So artists were bricoleurs of electronic bodies, interested in actions rather than calculation or cognition. There were inklings of “computer” as...

…168—70, 210-14, 216-18, 232, 243, 245, 280, 307 CPAC and, 132-34 electoral victory and, 10, 12, 18-19, 45, 60, 103, 112 intelligence community and, 41-42, 48, 156-57 Kelly and, 288-91, 294, 305-6 McMaster and, 176, 189, 192-93, 235, 266, 289 media and, 68-69, 76, 146, 202-3, 207,...

…ents “of any interference from law-enforcement.” In this mind-set, accord- ing to Fitzpatrick, “they believe government intelligence agencies will stop at nothing to stop them from absolute encryption.” Tor software was a means to defeat the NSA, but for it to be suc- cessful, t...

… discretion to violate Chinese law prohibiting murder where gunmen acting on direction of China’s Director of De- fense Intelligence Bureau killed plaintiffs husband); Birnbaum v. United States, 588 F.2d 319, 329-80 (2d Cir.1978) (find- ing in FTCA case that the CIA had no author...

… I assembled a team the same way we’d prepared for special-operations missions in the sayeret: looking for information, intelligence and above all experience and insight from whoever I thought was likely to make that always- narrow difference between failure and success. My first...

…ward Snowden. I go by Ed. MacAskill went on to ask him to enumerate the various positions he held during his career in intelligence. Snowden was not entirely | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 92 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019580

…lympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You need to send us,” I said. I tried to persuade him that if it came down to an operation to free our hostages, Sayeret Matkal offered the best...

…h in recent years it has been publicly linked to the People’s Liberation Army’s Political Warfare Department, which has intelligence responsibilities.° Meanwhile, other exchanges with US congressional specialists on China were promoted by a mysterious “united front” operative wit...

superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor annoyances, like ants at a picnic, but hybrid superintelligences—like corporations, organized religions, and nation states—could be existential threats. Like hybrid superintelligences, Als might see hum...

…aits, such as persistence and low anxiety. Will this be applicable to animals that are already at the door of humanlike intelligence? Several show self-recognition in a mirror test—chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, some dolphins and whales, and magpies. 45 “Then, Doctors ‘All An...

…” document as one of al-Qaeda’s principal financiers. JA3164, 3866-67, 3869-70; see also supra pp. 56-60. United States intelligence agencies concluded that the seized materials were authentic al-Qaeda documents that chronicle the formation of al-Qaeda, detail its financial and o...

…world and absorb lessons for China’s own modernization. This kind of information gathering goes well beyond traditional intelligence collection (although, to be sure, the ID also engages in this activity). Through its interactions with political parties all over the world, the...

…ematic Now we return to the “cognitive schematic” notion, according to which various cognitive pro- cesses involved in intelligence may be understood to work together via the implication Context \ Procedure - Goal < p > (summarized C A P > G). Semi-formally, this implication m...

…ost, the thinly veiled Snowden-based character, steal a vast number of CIA documents that could do great damage to U.S. intelligence. By retaining them, Frost made himself a prime target of the CIA. So I asked, “Is Joshua Frost fact or fiction?” “T can’t tell you that,” he said...