While surfing the web this morning, I came across a mention, by Cato Institute economist Dan Ikenson, of a White House conference call on the Export-Import Bank. I thought, what the heck, the call is during my lunch break; I'll try to get on.
I have now had a little time to digest Shane Harris’s story in the Daily Beast this morning on the intelligence community’s concerns in 2010 about OPM’s data security.
Copycat China is notorious. Many Western companies hesitate to enter China or to bring in technology, because of valid concerns about loss of intellectual property.
Last week, I posed the question of whether we should really be blaming OPM—which is not an intelligence, counter-intelligence, or cybersecurity agency—for the theft of government personnel records, presumably by professional intelligence operatives, when we have plenty of intelligence, counter-intelligence, and cybersecurity expertise in the federal government.
More than fifty-two files of U.S. government records from twenty-five different archival collections at Hoover have been declassified. The collections were created by diplomatic, military, and other government officials.
U.S. authorities have heightened concern over ISIS and the possibility of a domestic terror attack during the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend, with one part of that concern revolves around the terror group's ability to recruit sympathizers through social media and the internet.
Local governments have no right to ban “sign walkers” who stand on street corners with banners directing passers-by to nearby businesses, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
