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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the... →
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control... →
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its... →
In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of... →
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical... →
Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological... →
Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few... →
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day... →
Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries... →
Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of... →
Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to... →
Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed... →
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant... →