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SNIPPET: "Note: PWP stands for PassWord-Protected, meaning that a login is required to view - let alone participate in - discussions. Since some in the audience don't understand the significance of this, allow me to spell it out: if only members can read the forum, then anyone observed reading the forum is a member. They have zero deniability (they couldn't have accidentally "wandered into" the site), and they had to make the effort to join (an expression of intent). While the goal here is to present a range of sites, the fact is that the jihadis themselves have largely coalesced...

http://www.dni.gov/testimonies/20090225_testimony.pdf Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Dennis C. Blair Director of National Intelligence 25February 2009 HPSCI ATA FEB 2009–IC STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD 1 February2009 HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTTEE ON INTELLIGENCE FEBRUARY 2009 INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT UNCLASSIFIED STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD Chairman Reyes, Ranking Member Hoekstra, Members of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to offer my assessment of threats to US national security. As in previous years, the judgments I offer the Committee in these documents and remarks and in myresponses to your questions are based...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53104 U.S. Interests Face Challenges in Europe, Intelligence Chief Says By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2009 – (This is the third in a series on the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment.) Russia’s perceived strengths and its policies, tensions in Eurasia, Caucasus and Central Asia, and instability in the Balkans all pose challenges to U.S. interests in Europe, the director of national intelligence said Feb. 12. Dennis C. Blair, a retired Navy admiral, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that Russia continues to rebuild its military and, as...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53103 Intelligence Community Sees Asia Rising By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2009 – (This is the second in a three-part series on the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment.) U.S. intelligence planners predict the 21st century will be the time for the rise of Asia, the director of national intelligence said Feb. 12. Dennis C. Blair told the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that “China and India are restoring positions they held in the 18th century when China produced approximately 30 percent and India 15 percent of the...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53100 Economic Crisis Overlays all Threats Facing U.S., Intel Chief Says By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2009 – (Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment.) The global economic crisis colors all other threats confronting the United States, the new director of national intelligence told the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 12. Dennis C. Blair said the crisis raises the level of uncertainty in the world and places new areas of the globe in danger. Analysts...

Just caught the news. Nancy Pelosi announcing that she is passing a bill to have the CIA work on Global Warming as a threat. Global Freakin Warming !!!!!!! With everything we are facing, with the FBI busting Jihadis TODAY in NJ, she wants the CIA to waste time on Global Warming. I am totally stuned. Are we insane as a people? Are we doomed? Is God punishing us by sending abject fools to lead us?

<p>WASHINGTON (November 5, 2:51 p.m. AST) - The FBI will be able to check a person's background for potential terrorist activities more easily under national security guidelines issued Wednesday by Attorney General John Ashcroft.</p> <p>Civil libertarians said the rules could invite abuses against innocent people.</p>