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An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

OPINION – I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear [...] More

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New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years [...] More

How GEOINT Can Sustain US Advantages in Africa

OPINION — Africa presents a range of security, economic, and humanitarian challenges to US national security that the Intelligence Community must [...] More

The Downside to Mission Focus: Why the Intelligence Community Should Not Forget to Look Inward

OPINION — Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend [...] More

The Future of U.S. Intelligence: Leaner, Smarter, and Tech-Focused

EXPERT OPINION — It is time to reimagine the US intelligence community (IC). The 1947 National Security Act established the CIA which arguably had [...] More

Intelligence Reform Should Include an Updated Probability Yardstick

OPINION — The US Intelligence Community (IC) is experiencing tumult and facing critique, and all things point to significant reform, creating an [...] More

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Democracy’s Survival

OPINION -- In his recent Cipher Brief essay, CIA's Latest Existential Challenge, former CIA senior officer Mark Kelton argues that the Central [...] More

FISA Amendments Must Acknowledge Critical Role of OSINT

OPINION — As we approach the April 2024 expiration of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), it is heartening to see a [...] More

How Can the Intelligence Community Remain Indispensable to U.S. Policy Makers?

How Can the Intelligence Community Remain Indispensable to U.S. Policy Makers?

Analysis by experts from the Special Competitive Studies ProjectEXPERT ANALYSIS — In an era of information overload, the rise of AI and machine [...] More

IT Modernization in the IC: Part Two

SPONSOREDHow the IC can implement modernized network technologiesThe Intelligence Community needs advanced technology to address both a rising [...] More

IT Modernization in the IC - Part I

By Jill Singer, Vice President, Defense & National Security, AT&T Public Sector & FirstNetSPONSOREDHow advanced technologies support IC mission [...] More

An Opinion Series on Innovation: How the Intelligence Community Kills Ideas

OPINION — I recently saw a creative idea killed. Like a professional hit, the kill was silent and non-attributable. Managers essentially neutralized [...] More

The U.S. Advantage in Intelligence may not be the Superpower you think it is

OPINION — World conditions are increasingly difficult. China heads everyone’s list as the most formidable of our four main antagonists for many [...] More