04/12/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Time for limited US military action against North Korea
Does the Nov. 28 launch of North Korea’s new Hwasong-15 ICBM mean time has run out to use sanctions and diplomacy to halt the growing threat from its nuclear and missile programs? I believe the answer is probably no, but such a day is rapidly approaching.
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11/03/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Some Quick Thoughts on the Leak of CIA Hacking Documents
According to press reports, Wikileaks today released thousands of highly classified CIA documents on methods the CIA allegedly is using to conduct cyber warfare. If these documents are legitimate, this illegal release will ruin cyber programs worth billions of dollars that CIA was using to do battle with America’s enemies, especially terrorist groups.
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21/12/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How President Trump Can Make American Intelligence Great Again
In 2010, when I was on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I attended a committee hearing on the North Korean nuclear program. That hearing epitomized the failure of post-9/11 reforms of U.S. intelligence and showed why the Trump administration must take aggressive steps to streamline American intelligence.
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04/09/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Was Iran Given Secret Exemptions from Key Nuclear-Deal Requirements?
In an important report issued yesterday, the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, D.C. arms-control think tank, revealed that Iran was secretly granted exemptions to the July 2015 nuclear agreement (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) so it could meet compliance requirements for what the agreement calls “Implementation Day” — when Iran was to receive an estimated $150 billion in sanctions relief.
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04/09/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
We have a deal with Iran. So why is it defending a nuclear site with anti-aircraft missiles?
Iran’s state-controlled media announced on August 29 that Iran has deployed an advanced Russian surface-to-air missile defense system, the S-300, to protect its underground Fordow uranium enrichment facility from airstrikes.
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17/08/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ransom Payment Highlights Hillary’s Ownership of Disastrous Iran Deal
Amid recent scrambling by President Obama and his senior officials to deny that a secret planeload of foreign currency worth $400 million sent to Iran in January to win the release of four innocent Americans was a ransom payment, there also has been maneuvering by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to insulate her from any blowback from the nuclear deal with Iran.
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26/07/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iran Bombshell: It Will Inspect Itself
This week brought the stunning news that Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Representative Mike Pompeo(R., Kan.) had discovered, during a meeting with IAEA officials, the existence of secret side deal between the IAEA and Tehran — a side deal that will not, like the main nuclear agreement, be shared with Congress.
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05/07/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Will be Illegitimate
Much has been written recently about how the nuclear agreement being finalized with Iran goes against President Obama’s statements about the Iranian nuclear program, such as insisting that Iran does not need advanced centrifuges, the Fordow underground enrichment facility or a plutonium producing reactor.
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11/03/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel’s Former Mossad Chief Is Playing Politics with Iran’s Nuclear Program
Some critics of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are trying to discredit his speech last week to a joint session of Congress with a new talking point: former Mossad director Meir Dagan’s recent claim that Netanyahu knowingly misled Congress.
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29/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Two Overlooked Lessons From the North Korea Sony Hack
As disturbing as the North Korean cyberattack against the computers of Sony Pictures is, many reporters and politicians are overlooking two important lessons from this incident.
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19/09/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
No Place for Iran in ISIS Plans
Secretary of State John Kerry’s awkward denial that the United States has not proposed “coordinating with Iran” against ISIS suggests the Obama administration did indeed propose this and is engaged in damage control after its efforts were revealed by Iranian officials.
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