Wired’s ever-snarky Noah Shachtman, the main man behind their “Danger Room” blog and a contributor to DefenseTech.org, has a piece about the Mumbai terrorists’ use of new media, information, and communication technologies to aid in their attack.
The funny thing about that is that one month ago Mr. Shachtman took the usual snarky, dismissive tone in […]

Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists - Annotated
tags: terrorism, intelligence, social_media

Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.

The report is roughly divided into two halves. The first is […]

In the intelligence community it is (and has been) an issue of concern.  In my daily weekly first-time-in-too-long scan of my RSS feeds, I came across a reference to an article in Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s professional journal, titled “An Intelligence Role for the Footnote: For and Against.”  The article is actually a reprint […]

I was asked to speak at a graduate student professional development seminar in our department this week (Oct. 24), the topic of which is “Reading in Graduate School.”  The other panel members and I will discuss our views for the most effective practices for reading as a graduate student.  I have created a short document […]

On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain - washingtonpost.com
Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.
And at least some of […]