Keith Cowing is reporting that former Missile Defense Agency Director Ronald Kadish may replace Sean O’Keefe as NASA Administrator. O’Keefe is leaving for the ever popular “spend more time with his family” reason and is under consideration for Chancellor of Louisiana State University. “This is not good, if it is true,” notes one of my …
SpySat Revealed: It's MISTY
by | 2004-12-11 | No Comments
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest reports that government officials confirmed the classified “major funding acquisition program” to which Senator Rockefeller objected was the next stealth reconnaissance satellite in the MISTY program (MISTY-3). This blog has covered the MISTY program in the past: One observation: Some individuals holding clearances refer to a “classified piece” of the …
Sig Harrison on North Korea: The Other Shoe
by | 2004-12-10 | No Comments
A careful reader observes that Selig Harrison’s article in Foreign Affairs was advertising for Ending the North Korea Nuclear Crisis, “the report of a high-level Task Force on U.S./Korea Policy [associated with the Center for International Policy] presenting important new recommendations for resolving the dispute over weapons between the United States and North Korea.” Harrison, …
Spysat Follow-up 2
by | 2004-12-10 | No Comments
The Federation of American Scientists Secrecy Project has the collected statements relating to continued funding for a classified program opposed by Senator Rockefeller. Among the statements is an e-mail from his press office that Senator Rockefeller’s statement “was fully vetted and approved by security officials…” That’s why it was so vague.
