Background In June 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden perpetrated the largest and most damaging Public release of classified information in U.S. intelligence history. In August 2014, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) directed Committee staff to carry out a comprehensive review of the unauthorized disclosures. The aim of the review was to allow the Committee to explain to other Members of Congress-and, where possible, the American people-how this breach occurred, what the U.S. Government knows about the man who committed it, and whether the security shortfalls it highlighted had been remedied. Download the Report Executive Summary…
Author: John Greenewald
Introduction Excerpt from the document: This document contains papers related to the NACA Conference on “The Turbojet Engine for Supersonic Propulsion” held at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory October 8 and 9, 1953. Much of the material presented here was presented in the panel-type discussions of the conference. In some cases, in order to supplement those discussions, material not previously presented is included. A list of the conferees is included. On a side note, I found this document in a hunt to find references to my Grandfather, R.E. Greenewald, who worked on many classified government programs in relation to missile…
Background Excerpt from the Foreword of the book: The challenges facing our Nation today in its war against terrorism are reminiscent of the security concerns in the days leading up to World War I. Newspaper headlines told of large explosions in major metropolitan areas, the presence of spy cells inside the country, and the capture of foreign saboteurs crossing our borders. These events would ultimately result in the establishment of a permanent corps of trained counterintelligence specialists within America’s Army. During peacetime and war, counterintelligence has served to protect the Army’s most important secrets; its success or failure often spell the difference between victory and…
Background Executive Summary Over the course of 1 week in June 2007, a 15-year old high school student emailed a series of bomb threats to administrators and staff at Timberline High School, near Seattle, Washington. The threats caused daily school evacuations. The individual used “proxy servers” to e-mail the bomb threats in order to hide his location. When local law enforcement officials were unable to identify or locate the individual, they requested assistance from a cybercrime task force supervised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Seattle Field Division. FBI agents on the task force, working with FBI technology and…
Background Excerpt from report: In fiscal year (FY) 2010, Congress passed Public Law 111–258 (2010), the Reducing Over-Classification Act, which required the Inspectors General for all federal agencies and departments with officers and employees possessing original classification authority to conduct two evaluations – one in FY 2013 and another in FY 2016. In September 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its audit report on DOJ’s Implementation of and Compliance with Certain Classification Requirements. For that first evaluation, Congress directed the Inspectors General to: (1) assess whether applicable classification policies, procedures, rules,…