Source: POLITICO.com The Senate late Thursday confirmed James Clapper as director of national intelligence, breaking through Republican opposition that held up the nomination earlier this week. Clapper was confirmed by voice vote along with 47 executive branch nominees and four federal judges. The confirmation before the Senate leaves for its August recess had been uncertain [...]
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Source: POLITICO.com The Senate late Thursday confirmed James Clapper as director of national intelligence, breaking through Republican opposition that held up the nomination earlier this week. Clapper was confirmed by voice vote along with 47 executive branch nominees and four federal judges. The confirmation before the Senate leaves for its August recess had been uncertain [...]
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When it was confirmed last winter by then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the Obama administration had authorized the assassination of American citizens working with terrorist groups overseas, it appeared that no more than three Americans were being targeted in this manner. In an interview last week with the Washington Times, however, Deputy White [...]
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Source: zdnet.com.au
The idea of an internet "kill switch" that the President could flip is not new. A draft Senate proposal that ZDNet Australia’s sister site CNET obtained in August allowed the White House to "declare a cybersecurity emergency", and another from Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would have explicitly given the government [...]
Source: latimes.com
James R. Clapper Jr., the Pentagon’s chief official for intelligence, counterintelligence and security matters, has been chosen to become the next director of national intelligence, a position the White House described as the second-toughest in Washington, officials said Friday.
If confirmed, Clapper, a retired Air Force general, would succeed Dennis C. Blair, who resigned [...]
