No doubt that the NYT revelations are damaging to US national security interests and I hope will be aggressively prosecuted. Apparently, the MSM is trying to relive the “glory days” of Vietnam….but this is no Vietnam and the stakes are immense. The bottom line for all of this: the US must now abandon expensive systems (and existing networks) already in place and shift its strategy and techniques. When I was a young Navy Lieutenant, Aldridge Ames compromised our systems and caused the same thing. He was revealed as a traitor. Any bets on how the so-called “journalists” will fare?

One (possibly) good thing that may come of this entire sorry episode: the bad guys now THINK they know what our capabilities are….and that can still work in our favor.

Lets see now, if we take the bit about Muslims out of that USA TODAY headline “EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants”, how many Americans would think this headline” Nuclear Monitoring done without search warrants”

AJ Strata was one of the first to speculate that so-called “protest” resignation of Judge Robertson from the FISA court may have really been because he was one of the leakers of the classified NSA program. He and others are now wondering if Jay Rocke…

There is some way to read minds at least a little bit.

Google John Norseen and read this article from 2000.

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/norseen.html

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center have all awarded small basic research contracts to Norseen, who works for Lockheed Martin’s Intelligent Systems Division. Norseen is waiting to hear if the second stage of these contracts – portions of them classified – comes through.

Norseen’s theories are grounded in current science. Mapping human brain functions is now routine. By viewing a brain scan recorded by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, scientists can tell what the person was doing at the time of the recording – say, reading or writing. Emotions from love to hate can be recognized from the brain’s electrical activity.

Thought police. So could the murderous thoughts of a terrorist, asserts Norseen, who wrote his thesis at the Naval War College on applying neuroscience research to antiterrorism. He has submitted a research-and-development plan to the Pentagon, at its request, to identify a terrorist’s mental profile. A miniaturized brain-mapping device inside an airport metal detector would screen passengers’ brain patterns against a dictionary of brain prints. Norseen predicts profiling by brain print will be in place by 2005….“If this research pans out”, says Norseen, “you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.” But Norseen says he is “agnostic” on the moral ramifications, that he’s not a “mad” scientist – just a dedicated one. “The ethics don’t concern me,” he says, “but they should concern someone else.”

You must have been up all night to catch this.

Totally off-topic, but this is a good site for cooking
http://www.cooks.com/

Someone may be hovering over your roof tonite, and word on the street is that he has the latest NEST sniff-technology in his black bag.

I am hoping this will attract a warrantless search!

I am trying to decide what to do with my tenderloin
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-00,tenderloin_steak,FF.html

I was against telling about Able Danger, remember?

I predicted that if Able Danger was publicized to “show up” Democratic mistakes then the Democrats would retaliate by leaking information derogatory to the Republicans.

And that now appears to be happening.

Republicans and Democrats are trying to show each other up by leaking classified programs.

And the Democrats have really gone way too far, but both parties have made it easier for our terrorist enemies to just read our secrets in the NYT and Washington Post.

The enemy is inside our country planning attacks. We can’t treat this like a law enforcement issue.

SBD

This is exactly the point I was making when the Dems filibustered the
extention of the Patriot Act.

I said if they did not want to allow the tools in the Patriot Act and now
add the NSA’s monitoring – ALL HOMELAND SECURITY $$$$$$$
taken back from these Senators’ states.

The Dems only want defensive efforts that will swell the public sector unions and therefore increase their campaigne coffers and voters.

GW cannot worry about being a “uniter” with these vermin – they
must be treated as the Benedict Arnolds that they are.

Apparently not satisfied with exposing critical national secrets, the Times has posted a follow…

See my comment over at The Volokh Conspiracy:

A Case for Transparent Privacy

I would encourage readers to check out my piece re the LE paradigm. Granted, it might be a little rough around the edges for these hollowed halls. It does come from my perspective as a local LE professional who has written over 500 search warrants in his career some of which have included high tech related issues.

It boils down to this, you can’t win a war by playing defense. There is no way you can protect all potential targets from attack from all possible scenarios. This results in the under utilization and misallocation of scarce resources. Think “pork barrel” and “gold plated fire trucks” that everyone is trying to get with DHS money.

You must play offense, deploy your resources intelligently, and in all cases engage the enemy.

This is where the traditional LE paradigm breaksdown. This is not a police action where the rules can include the finer points of probable cause. The apprehension and prosecution of the prepetraitors becomes nonrelevant. The mission should be to prevent an attack. The players become insignificant. After all because of the enemy’s radical extremist religious cult-like ideology/belief structure, it’s agents launch suicidal attacks.

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[WMD, dirty bomb, or chem bio attack]

Anyone of these could literally destablized our government and society. Now you tell me whether a little transparent privacy is in order here until we can wipe this ideology of hate and evil from the face of this earth?

OK I’m done now.

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I just don’t understand these people. Do they not understand that publishing this kind of information makes it more difficult to find and kill the very terrorists who want our Nation destroyed?

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