Those following the Stuxnet/Flame story will be interested in this piece that just went up on the Washington Post website. In a sequel to David Sanger’s account attributing Stuxnet to an American-Israeli collaboration, today’s piece by Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, … Read more »
Paul makes a good point that digital technology and data analytics make it easier for the government to track journalists’ movements and ascertain the persons in government with whom they communicate. Charlie Savage makes the same point in his story… Read more »
President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House:
The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it’s wrong, and people, I think, need to have a better sense
Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program. One of the most provocative paragraphs is this one (with my italics):
Mr. Obama, according to participants
David Sanger discloses in the NYT that the United States and Israel were behind the computer worm attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that came to be known as Stuxnet. The story is based on non-attributed interviews with U.S. (and … Read more »
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy. They write:
While neither we nor the critics know the circumstances behind the prosecutors’ decision to issue this subpoena, we do know from the government’s public disclosures that the prosecutors were right to investigate this leak
