Apparently a judge believes no one with relatives in China should hold a security clearance. (Previous rulings to this effect have been upheld on appeals, see here and here.) Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough approve. Gertz and Scarborough report that they “obtained an opinion from Administrative Judge James A. Young” and quotes the “attorney for …
SpySat Follow-up
by | 2004-12-10 | No Comments
The program is not some space weapon. Rockefeller has backed off the “dangerous” comment. “He was referring to the fact that it was a misallocation of funds,” his spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told AP. That still leaves the question of its identity open. There is a pretty strong school of though suggesting the satellite program in …
SpySats: Sometimes It's Just a Cigar
by | 2004-12-09 | No Comments
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) recently refused to support the intelligence bill due to his “strenuous objection—shared by many in our committee—to a particular major funding acquisition program that I believe is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security.” He went on to say: But the Senate has voted for the past 2 …
Another North Korea Intelligence Summary
by | 2004-12-09 | No Comments
I always appreciate it when Jeffrey plugs my scribbling, but I will add something further. This is a more recent article about North Korea’s nuclear programs. The section on the enrichment program reads: North Korea denies U.S. charges that it has a gas centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment program. Little is known about this program, including the location …
