Tag Archives: ODNI

Trump Installs U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence #triplehatted

February 20, 2020 By in Acting Capacity, Ambassadors, Appointments, Federal Agencies, Political Appointees, Special Envoys and Reps, Top Ranks, Trends, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: , , , ,

 

Trump-Putin Show: A Shocker to the World, But “Fabulous …Better Than Super” to Russians

July 16, 2018 By in Diplomatic History, Disasters, EUR|Europe, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Hotspots, Huh? News, Realities of the FS, Security, Spectacular, State Department, Trends, Trump, US Presidents Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

 

The one-on-one summit meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin finally happened today in Helsinki with no American officials in attendance as observers or notetakers, only interpreters.  The interpreter for the USG side is Marina Gross.

After a whole morning trapped in the vomitorium, we finally surfaced for air and some coffee. That joint press conference frankly was more bonkers than the SBC show we watched last night. After picking up our jaw from the floor, we saw that the Department of Justice this morning also unsealed a criminal complaint in the District of Columbia charging Maria Butina, a Russian national residing in Washington, D.C. with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States.

I’m still sick to my stomach. We’ll remember this Helsinki moment in the future.

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Read: ODNI’s Declassified Intel Report on Russian Involvement in Recent U.S. Elections

January 6, 2017 By in Elections, Federal Agencies, Govt Documents, Obama, Trump Tags: , , ,

Posted: 1:02 pm PT
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ODNI made available online the declassified intel report on Russian involvement in the recent U.S. elections.  It says that on December 9, 2016, President Barack Obama directed the Intelligence Community to conduct a full review and produce a comprehensive intelligence report assessing Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections.   ODNI also says that “The Intelligence Community did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election, and DHS assesses that the types of systems the Russian actors targeted or compromised were not involved in vote tallying.”

The original report is posted here.  Or you may read the report embedded below:

Note: Click on Cloudup’s lower right hand arrow to maximize the document.

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PSA: Know the Risk #Raise Your Shield Campaign: Spear Phishing

September 10, 2015 By in Federal Agencies, Public Service, Security, Social Media, Technology and Work, Trends Tags: , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Posted: 4:02 am EDT
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The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is responsible for leading the counterintelligence and security mission across the USG. It is putting out the campaign focusing on spear phishing. It will reportedly be targeting social media, human targeting, and travel awareness. You can learn more at http://www.ncsc.gov but fair warning, the website is slow and cumbersome, hard to navigate and not terribly user-friendly.

Via the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:


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Here’s the Don’t Be THIS Guy: Spear Phishing video:

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#OPMBreach: Back to Paper SF-86s, No More Social Media at OPM, Scary Movie Chinese Edition

July 3, 2015 By in Congress, Federal Agencies, Huh? News, Security, Security Clearance, Senators, Social Media, Spectacular, State Department, Technology and Work, Trends Tags: , , , , , ,

Posted: 2:15 pm EDT
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