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| 2010-01-20 |
| China removed as top priority for spies Intelligence chiefs object By Bill Gertz The White House National Security Council recently directed U.S. spy agencies to lower the priority placed on intelligence collection for China, amid opposition to the policy change from senior intelligence leaders who feared it would hamper efforts to obtain secrets about Beijing 's military and its cyber-attacks. The downgrading of intelligence gathering on China was challenged by Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair and CIA Director Leon E. Panetta after it was first proposed in interagency memorandums in October, current and former intelligence officials said. The decision downgrades China from "Priority 1" status, alongside Iran and North Korea , to "Priority 2," which covers specific events such as the humanitarian crisis after the Haitian earthquake or tensions between India and Pakistan . The National Security Council staff, in response, pressed ahead with the change and sought to assure Mr. Blair and other intelligence chiefs that the change would not affect the allocation of resources for spying on China or the urgency of focusing on Chinese spying targets, the officials told The Washington Times. Paging Senator-Elect Brown, Senator Brown, your next issue is waiting at the red courtesy telephone ... White House National Security Council officials declined to comment. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 WMF > US-CHINA STRATEGIC COMPETITION AND GEOPOL RIVALRY IS NOT THE "FINAL STRUGGLE"! IMO Read, NOT YET. * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > [GOOGLE-China War]CHINA TO MONITOR/READ ALL TEXT MESSAGES. Beijing orders all Telephone + Communications companies to suspend services to Users resorting to "suspicious" message contents, even iff as per SPOUSE-TO-SPOUSE MESSAGING. Complaints of violations by Beijing-CPC agz Chinese Basic Rights. * SAME > INDIA FACES SECURITY THREAT FROM CHINA HACKERS. --------------------- ION CHINESE MIL FORUM/WAFF/PRAVDA > WILL EUROPEAN UNION KILL ANY CHANCE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY + EURO MAY COLLAPSE? Standard & Poors, Mody's, + Fitch Ratings have seriously downgraded the financial ratings of various EU countries, namely POTUGAL, IRELAND, SPAIN, + GREECE. Greeece's situation is seen as particularly dire as to LT consequences for the EU as a whole. VARIOUS PERTS [above] > EURO may disappear as a VALID CURRENCY OF INTERNAT-GLOBAL EXCHANGE ANYWHERE BETWEEN 5-20 YEARS [15 years > circa Year 2025] POSTER > opined its hard to maintain a common EU CURRENCY = "EURO" with all the EU states essens doing their own thing mostly independent of EU Brussels + the Others. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-20 21:55 |
| #2 Darrell Issa (R-CA |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-20 19:13 |
| #1 LINK ON CHINA SPOOFING Government Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) to HACK INTO MAJOR US CORPORATIONS' What will China reward its well placed traitors in the US government with? The other tell-tale came not from Google but from Adobe, and I think that it’s been ignored and understated. Adobe was hit as well, and may also have been key to the intrusion process. Again, they aren’t saying much — but their newer products have potential back doors in them, and the PDF file format has become so ubiquitous in business that virtually everybody in the business world has multiple PDF files on their computers at any time. Let’s speculate and imagine for a second that the search warrant system which allows all governments to request user information requires submission of a warrant in the form of a PDF file… the adobe flaw |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-20 14:18 |