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December 2014 Intelligence News

• Trilateral Information Sharing Arrangement Concerning the Nuclear and Missile Threats Posed by North Korea, ROK-USA-Japan, December 28. "The Participants intend to establish a mechanism to enable the sharing of classified information concerning the nuclear and missile threat concerning the nuclear and missile threat posed by North Korea."
• The Other Torture Report: The Secret CIA Document That Could Unravel The Case For Torture by Ali Watkins, Huffington Post, December 22. "The CIA claims the torture tactics it used in the years following 9/11 were legal and saved American lives. And despite what the Senate study alleges, the agency insists it never lied about the torture program. One internal CIA document, though, could be key to discrediting this defense. And at this very moment, it's tucked away in a Senate safe."
• $14 Million An Hour: War Costs Top $1.6 Trillion Since 9/11, Say Congressional Researchers by David Sirota, International Business Times, December 22. "American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress' nonpartisan research arm. That's roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years."
• The Weird Saga of the Other 'Smoking Gun' Torture Report the CIA Still Has Under Wraps by Jason Leopold, Vice News, December 18. "There is a second torture report locked away somewhere at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The agency says the document is so sensitive that national security would be at risk if any details about it were publicly revealed."
• Incoming Senate intelligence chief plans 'real time' scrutiny of CIA by Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers, December 13. "Sen. Richard Burr says he plans a new approach to keeping close tabs on the nation's spy agencies when he becomes chairman of the Senate committee that's charged with making sure the intelligence community operates within the law."
• Surveillance, Privacy and Civil Liberties, CATO Institute Conference on Surveillance, C-SPAN, December 12. "Panelists talked about the process and challenges of overseeing federal surveillance operations."
• Obama administration should be fully transparent about Bush-era torture by Greg Sargent, Washington Post Plum Line, December 11. "Now the Obama Justice Department appears to be taking active steps to shield from public view its rationale for this decision not to prosecute."
• Torture report reveals CIA spent $300 million by Gregory Wallace, CNN Money, December 9. "The CIA spent 'well over' $300 million on the CIA's covert detention and interrogation program, according to the blockbuster Senate report made public Tuesday."
• The C.I.A.'s Power to Purge, New York Times editorial, December 6. "The Central Intelligence Agency was proposing to eventually destroy the email of all but a small number of its thousands of employees, from covert operatives to counterterrorism officers."
• DNI Clapper Establishes the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, news release, December 1. "DNI Clapper said the establishment of the NCSC is the next step in the effective integration of counterintelligence and security missions under a single organization structure."