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Spy-Agency Revision Triggers Turf War

The White House is in the final stages of the first executive rewrite of spy-agency powers in more than 25 years, aiming to solidify the authorities of the new director of national intelligence as the administration winds down.

The revision has spawned bureaucratic showdowns with many of the 16 intelligence agencies. The main source of contention has been a move by the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, to ensure he has the power of the purse as well as over personnel, according to current and former officials.

The yearlong process reopened a number of the contentious battles stirred up by the 2004 intelligence-reform bill, which first created the new post of an intelligence director to oversee all the U.S. spy agencies. The Pentagon sees in the process an effort to take power from some of its biggest intelligence agencies while the Central Intelligence Agency worries about excessive meddling in its activities, current and former officials said….....(Wall Street Journal)

Counterterrorism & War of Ideas News

Lebanon's "300"

While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon. Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described “Divine soldiers” has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon’s “Khomeinist Janjaweeds” have conquered already half of the Middle East’s cultural capital, Beirut.......(CI Centre Professor Walid Phares)

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Recommended New Books

The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad by CI Centre Professor Dr. Walid Phares

Phares offer an all out strategic plan to gather all our possible national resources and reconstruct a world front against Jihadi terror. The book makes the case for a revolutionary agenda based on what we can do and what the Jihadi forces are planning on doing. More

Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad by Andrew McCarthy

From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States.

Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost: Preventing Intellectual Property Theft and Economic Espionage in the 21st Century

by Christopher Burgess and Richard Power

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NEWS TOPICS (Click on topic for full coverage--includes descriptive paragraph)

Espionage | US Intelligence | Foreign Intel | Russia Intel | Secrecy/Leaks | History | Books | RIP

Terrorist Intel | War of Ideas | Islamic Jihadism Ideology | Terrorism | Counterterrorism | Terrorist Trials

Economic Espionage | Cyber Security | Cyber Jihadism | Homeland Security | Overseas Security

Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007

Espionage charges against gold company ENOR former regional director

Suspected German Spy to Go on Trial

ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE

Nation States' Espionage and Counterespionage

An overview of the 2007 Global Economic Espionage Landscape

'Undercover agent' to check 'corporate espionage'

CYBER SECURITY

Server discovered with 1.4 GB worth of data harvested by criminals

Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' records

FBI probe nets counterfeit Chinese networking parts

Belgium Accuses China of Cyberattacks

HOMELAND SECURITY

Fairfax Cop Who Tipped Terror Suspect Helped Kill Training Program

Soldiers Learn Arabic Language And Culture

U.S. sees big drop in terrorism cases

Commando leaders shift away from Rumsfeld strategy

OVERSEAS SECURITY

LEAKS/SECRECY

HISTORY

Today in History

May 11 1988, master spy Harold "Kim" Philby, the notorious "Third Man" of a British espionage ring, died in the Soviet Union at age 76.

May 10 2007, a federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., convicted Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China. (Mak was later sentenced to 24 1/2 years in federal prison.)

More information on the Mak Spy Ring

RIP

NEWS FROM THE AGENCIES

Remarks by the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Dr. Donald Kerr (DNI)

House Intelligence Committee Approves Funding For Intelligence Operations and Critical Oversight (HPSCI)

US INTEL

FBI, ATF Battle for Control Of Cases

Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions

F.B.I. Says the Military Had Bogus Computer Gear

Leaked Presentation: FBI Investigation – Cisco Routers

FOREIGN INTEL

Pakistan seeks spy planes from Australia

China scholar named as Taiwan's intelligence chief

Experience With Syria Exemplifies Challenge That Detection Presents

CHINA: The Infant Dragon

RUSSIAN INTEL

FSB Shuffle Seen Helping Medvedev

BOOK REVIEWS

In a Changing World, an Ever-Evolving Terrorism

TERROR AND CONSENT: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt

What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the root Causes of Terrorism by Alan B. Kreuger

Book challenges terrorism cliches

The Second Plane by Martin Amis

The strategy of suicide-bombing

Dying to Kill: the Allure of Suicide Terrorism by Mia Bloom

CI CENTRE PODCASTS

Jihad Lexicon Roundtable Discussion, Part 1

CI Centre Professors David Major (ret FBI), Clare Lopez (ret CIA) and Brian Weidner (ret FBI) have a roundtable discussion about consequences, significance and what the response should be to recent governmental reports saying words like these should no longer be used in the Government War on Terrorism: Jihad, Jihadist, Al-Qaeda, Islamists, Islamo-fascism, Mujahedeen, Caliphate, Salafi, etc. More

Recent Articles by CI Centre Profs

LEBANON'S “300” (Walid Phares)

Hezbollah’s Beirut’s Blitz (Walid Phares)

Score one for the Muslim Brotherhood (Clare Lopez)

A Benedict for the Future Jihad (Clare Lopez)

Jihad Means Offensive War to Spread Islam: Osama Bin Laden’s Warning to Europe (Clare Lopez)

Military wins friends: Knowing the Enemy to Win or Destroy Him (Clare Lopez)

Bin Laden’s threat uncovers Jihadist message for Europe (Walid Phares)

TERRORIST INTEL

Taliban deliver silent death threats after midnight

Taliban resume attacks: Spokesman says militia promoting jihadi culture

Pakistan Coalition Partner Quits Cabinet Over Judges

Expected and undisturbed Hezbollah coup

CHRONOLOGY - Hezbollah's showdown with Lebanese government

ANALYSIS - Hezbollah force corners U.S. allies in Lebanon

NEFA Translation: Al-Qaida Reports "Martyrdom" of Senior Saudi Terrorist Abu Sulaiman al-Otaibi

Muslim guerrillas blame Philippine president for stalled talks, say they're ready for war

WAR OF IDEAS

Watch "Fitna"

The Jihad in Plain Sight by Andrew McCarthy. The threat posed by radical Islam was with us long before 9/11, but we stubbornly refuse to see it.

LEBANON'S “300”

Islamist Lawfare

Analysis: Terror lexicon reveals GOP split

ISLAMIC JIHADISM/SHARIA LAW

President Apostate? Security issue of Barak Obama's conversion

New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot *Read Lyrics

In Iran, Covert Christian Converts Live With Secrecy and Fear

CYBERJIHADISM

Report: Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat (US Senate)

Islamist Forums Teach Mujahideen How to Manufacture and Use Explosives, Weapons, and Poisons

COUNTERTERRORISM

Second Thai Counterfeit Passport Ring Broken Up This Month: Nearly 22,000 Passports Seized

US considering ‘Anbar model’ for FATA

Anti-terror police arrest Muslim author and former al-Qaida recruiter as he boards flight to Pakistan

TERRORISM TRIALS

Hamza challenges US extradition

Pentagon preparing for 9/11 suspects' first appearance

TERRORISM

Terror returns to Jammu

Blast damages Swat mosque

Islamists target Somalis in terror campaign

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