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January 2016 Intelligence News

• The State Department: Hillary Clinton's email correspondence contained 'top secret' material by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, January 29. "The State Department acknowledged for the first time Friday that 'top secret' information has been found in emails that passed through the private email server Hillary Clinton used while leading the agency, elevating the issue in the presidential campaign three days before the hotly contested Iowa caucuses."
• Doctors of Doom: What a PhD Really Means in the US National Security Community by William M. Arkin and Alexa O'Brien, VICE News, January 27. "A VICE News survey of about 1,500 people who have doctorates and work in the national security community -- in theory, the elite of US intelligence -- reveals an overwhelming bias toward online universities, particularly for those people whose doctorates were issued in the past 15 years."
• Modernizing & Strengthening the Security & Effectiveness of Federal Background Investigations, White House fact sheet, January 22. "Today, the Government announced a series of changes to modernize and strengthen the way we conduct background investigations and protect sensitive data."
• State Department Asks for Even More Time to Finish Releasing Hillary Clinton's Emails by Jason Leopold, VICE News, January 22. "A government attorney will file a motion in federal court on behalf of the State Department Friday seeking an additional month to complete its release of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."
• Clinton Takes On Top Intelligence Watchdog by Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View, January 20. "Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Wednesday accused the intelligence community's top oversight official of conspiring with Republicans in the Senate to leak sensitive information about her personal e-mail server."
• Here's The Truth About The U.S. Government And Intelligence Funding by Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, Vocativ, January 16. "Republican hopefuls have routinely accused President Obama of bleeding U.S. intelligence agencies dry, but no other commander in chief has given them so much cash."
• Fixing Pre-Publication Review: What Should Be Done? by Steven Aftergood, Just Security, January 15. "There is an empirical foundation for the belief that pre-publication review has gone off the rails. As it is conducted today, the review process too often arbitrarily impedes the freedom of many US government employees to participate in public discourse."
• DOD Inspector General to Audit NSA Network Security, DoD IG letter, January 6. "We plan to begin the subject audit in January 2016. Our objective is to determine whether initiatives implemented by the National Security Agency are effective to improve security over its systems, data, and personnel activities."
• How Jewish Groups -- and Benjamin Netanyahu -- Got Spied On by U.S. by Ron Kampeas, Forward / JTA, January 5. " At first blush, it appears like a bombshell: The United States listened in on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's phone calls. Here's what the controversy is all about and what may happen next."