GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Int'l Flight Diverted Due To Security Threat

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8May2011 3:47pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (BERNALILLO) *AIRCRAFT INCIDENT* INTERNAT. AIRPORT. DELTA FLT 1706 DETROIT TO SAN DIEGO DIVERTED FOR SECURITY THREAT. FBI ON SCN. DC2

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Nomination Sheds New Light on Intel Policy

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SOURCE: Secrecy News

22February2011 2:35pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Last week the Senate confirmed Stephanie O’Sullivan to be the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI), the number two position in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).  Ms. O’Sullivan, a longtime CIA employee who is currently Associate Deputy Director of CIA, will be the fourth person to hold that office.

A review of the materials submitted in support of her nomination, especially a set of answers to pre-hearing questions (pdf) submitted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, turns up a number of interesting new details concerning intelligence policy.  For example:

**  ODNI began an effort last year “to reinvigorate the declassification of imagery for public release,” Ms. O’Sullivan said. She indicated that this program had been “launched in May 2010,” but there is little sign that it has had any impact to date.

On the contrary, attempts to gain access to historical intelligence satellite imagery remain as contentious and mostly as fruitless as ever.  “Trying to get [satellite imagery] declassified today, it’s like I’m taking their marbles away,” said Charles P. Vick of GlobalSecurity.org earlier this month, “and it’s over 40 years old.”  (“New Secrets of Huge Soviet Moon Rocket Revealed” by Leonard David, Space.com, February 7, 2011) (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: WikiLeaks rival launches new secret-spilling site

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SOURCE: PhysOrg.com

28January2011 3:06pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The new platform, called OpenLeaks, will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet, said Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

"We'd like to work with media outlets that have an interest in informing the public," he told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting of top business and political leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos.

The difference between his group and WikiLeaks, he said, would be that his group leaves reviewing the material up to the publication or advocacy group chosen by the source to receive the information.

WikiLeaks has struggled to wade through the vast amounts of material it received - particularly the hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables - and been criticized for sharing the data with only a handful of media outlets around the world. (read full report)