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U.S. official gets 3 years for help...

In September of 2009, an ex-Pentagon official with top security clearance was put on trial for knowingly sharing military secrets with an agent of a foreign government - the Chinese government to be specific. James Fondren, 62...

China poised to win cyber war?

Google shocked the Chinese government – not to mention all us gmail users – by announcing on January 12 that the company had suffered a serious cyber security breach, likely perpetrated by China. Encouraged by Google’s bold step, other companies are now coming forward, and so we see...

New spies for film “Knockout”

The latest in spy movie news is all about the star-studded cast of Steven Soderbergh’s new revenge espionage flick “Knockout.” The film, which starts shooting next month, is about a spy who works for a security contractor not...

White House issues report on Xmas s...

President Obama is proactively addressing the intelligence snafu that gave Nigerian Abdulmutallab the opportunity to blow up a plane heading to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas day, 2009. Luck stepped in, and the bomb...

Obama open about U.S. Intelligence ...

On December 25, 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was allowed to board Delta flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, even though he had explosives, which he planned to detonate en route to Detroit, sewn into...

A Dangerous Tit-for-Tat

By Haggai Carmon

Iranian officials are accusing the United States of trying to encourage a “velvet revolution” in Iran. That term was first used in 1989 to describe the nonviolent revolution in Czechoslovakia that overthrew the communist government. And indeed, as part of its velvet war against Iran, the United States is broadcasting cultural programs in …