Category: Intelligence

North Korea Sets Date For Taepodong-2 Launch

North Korea Sets Date For Taepodong-2 Launch

| March 12, 2009 | Reply

Word from the Arms Control Wonk that the Norks have set a date range between April 4th and April 8th for their Taepodong-2 test launch. “Lending a degree of credibility to Pyongyang’s pledge to stage a rocket launch, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said it had been contacted by the North about its plans. “We […]

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Thursday throes

Thursday throes

| March 12, 2009 | Reply

We aim to please (most mostly we aim to hit) . . . MID-MORNING UPDATE: The FBI raids the office of the DC Chief Technology Officer, who is (or was) Vivek Kundra, who is now the new CTO for the Obama Administration. However, it appears that the focus is not on Kundra, but on two […]

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NORK Missile Launch Soon?

NORK Missile Launch Soon?

| March 9, 2009 | Reply

Headlines on multiple news sites point to a possible Taepodong-2 missile launch in the next day or two. As documented earlier, this will be another in a line of tests of intermediate range North Korean rockets. While the North has described this as a satellite launch, it is actually the means to test the missile, […]

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Liberating stats

Liberating stats

| March 6, 2009 | Reply

I’ll let you figure out why I added all the categories that I did.  ..bruce w..

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North Korea Preparing Missile Test

North Korea Preparing Missile Test

| February 11, 2009 | Reply

Word has been circulating around national security focused sites that North Korea is preparing to test their home grown long range missile. According to reports, recent reconnaissance has shown components that look like parts of a Taepodong-2 missile being moved via rail to the North Korean rocket test site on the east coast. This facility […]

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Geo-Political Hot Spots of 2009

Geo-Political Hot Spots of 2009

| January 29, 2009 | Reply

We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]

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Be Seeing You…

Be Seeing You…

| January 14, 2009 | Reply

As has been reported elsewhere in the press, reclusive actor Patrick McGoohan died earlier today. The 17 episode series of “The Prisoner” was transformational in many ways for television. In an age of episodic television, where everything was resolved in 30 minutes and at the end nothing ever changes, McGoohan’s show was one enormous story […]

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Obama’s CIA Briefing – Welcome To The Party!

Obama’s CIA Briefing – Welcome To The Party!

| November 6, 2008 | Reply

Oh to be a fly on the wall! News reports say today is the day that President-elect Barry Obama gets his first real intelligence briefing as the Bush administration beings the transfer of national command authority. Up until now, our newly minted President-elect was a rookie Senator, and did not get the full details of […]

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Iran Again Tests Their Shahab-3 Missile

Iran Again Tests Their Shahab-3 Missile

| July 9, 2008 | Reply

World media outlets on the web, print and broadcast are all discussing the war games in Iran during the US night time today. The headline event of these exercises by the Revolutionary Guard was the test launch of an Iranian medium range missile, the Shahab 3. Excellent diagram courtesy of GlobalSecurity.org The Shahab 3 has […]

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Outrageous behavior by the TSA

Outrageous behavior by the TSA

| May 26, 2008 | Reply

Jeffrey Denning is a former TSA air marshal who has been serving in Iraq with the US Army Reserve. He just returned home only to face immediately a TSA investigation into an e-mail he received and forward asking “current and former air marshals to talk to CNN”: My wife and I had an interesting conversation […]

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