Thinking security: 101 years after the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
And I can’t help but wonder, oh Willie McBride, do all those who lie here know why they died? Did...
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Author: Adam Silverman
Thinking security: Political warfare and the 2020 U.S. elections — What can be done?
Last week I wrote about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) newly released second...
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Thinking security: ‘Political world warfare’ and the 2020 U.S. elections
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), chaired by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and...
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Thinking Security: Russian Disinformation, Counterintelligence implications and the Whistleblower Complaint
Last week we took a deep dive into the counterintelligence concerns that arose from the initial...
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Thinking Security: Part II on the whistleblower’s complaint and potential counterintelligence threat
Editor’s note: This is Part II of this week’s Thinking Security column by Adam...
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Thinking Security: Counterintelligence concerns from the intelligence community whistleblower’s complaint
Editor’s note: The extensive commentary on the whistleblower complaint occupying Washington...
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A week with two unfortunate commemorations — the anniversary of 9-11 and World Suicide Prevention Day
This past week has been a busy one in regards to national security, foreign policy and security...
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Thinking Security: Noise versus signal, the alchemy of security analysis in the 21st Century
One of the realities of the post-9/11 security world is trying to distinguish signal from noise in...
Read MoreThinking Security: Part II of Elections security –Electronic voting machine bugaboo!
Three weeks ago, shortly after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its assessment of Russian cyber operations hacking into voting systems in all 50 states, I wrote about what I thought was both the real and most...
Read MoreThinking security: Radicalization isn’t just for extremists and terrorists
In the 19 days since the El Paso shooting, Thinking Security notes that local, state and/or Federal law enforcement have arrested nine men who either expressed a desire on social media to commit acts of domestic terrorism or a...
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Thinking security: A few thoughts in the wake of the domestic terrorist attacks in El Paso and Gilroy
Candidates for municipal, state, and federal offices are beginning, or will soon begin, their campaigns for election or reelection next year. They will discuss issues of healthcare, levels of taxation, education standards, issues pertaining to gun safety and control. Yet underlying every single one of these issues is the real issue at the heart of American politics in 2019: what does being “American” mean and who gets to be American?
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Thinking security: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on Russian hacking of U.S. election systems
Last week the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) proprietor,...
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