"Saddam didn’t know he had it," the head of the CIA’s post-war WMD investigation tells <em>The Intercept</em>. "This is stuff Iraqi leaders did not know was left lying around. It was not a militarily significant capability that they were, as a matter of national policy, hiding."
Amid debate over Syria intervention, network dubiously claimed pro-Assad forces abducted its journalists.
The off-the-record event is sponsored by a group including executives from Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
"Hostile" Israel possesses "the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.," says secret assessment.
The U.S. Government warns of cyberattacks from adversaries, but it may have contributed to those capabilities in the case of Iran, according to a top secret document.
Once regarded as a fringe group of exiles, the Mojahedin have used money and supporters to go from outlawed terrorist organization to influential players.
Rogers likened cyberattacks to previous improvements in warfare. "Cyber represents change, a different technical application to attempt to achieve some of the exact same effects, just do it in a different way," he said. "Like those other effects, I think, over time, we’ll have a broad discussion in terms of our sense of awareness, both in terms of capabilities as well as limitations." That discussion is long overdue.
Congressional Democrats meddled in foreign policy, too. Now they hypocritically decry Republicans for doing so.
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