New docs obtained by #404Media reveal that #ClearviewAI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records & 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states from an #intelligence firm. The contract further describes the records as including current & former home addresses, dates of birth, arrest photos, social security & cell phone numbers, & email addresses.
Some ofcls involved in the working groups said they are concerned that the #Trump admin is de-prioritizing the issue despite #intelligence warnings. The change follows the unwinding of other #Russia-focused projects launched by #Biden’s admin.
The #FBI last month ended an effort to counter US #ElectionInterference by foreign adversaries including Russia & put on leave staff working on the issue at #DHS. The #DOJ also disbanded a team that seized the assets of #RussianOligarchs.
Regular meetings between the NSC & #Europe’s #NationalSecurity ofcls have gone unscheduled, & the NSC has also stopped formally coordinating efforts across #US agencies, including w/the #FBI, #DHS & the #State Dept….
Reuters could not determine whether #Trump has ordered the admin to halt all its work monitoring & combatting #Russia’s campaign….
President Joe #Biden last year ordered his #NationalSecurity team to establish working groups to monitor the issue amid warnings from US #intelligence that Russia was escalating a shadow war against Western nations.
The plan was led by Biden's #NSC & involved at least 7 national security agencies working w/European allies to disrupt plots targeting #Europe & the #UnitedStates….
Exclusive: #US suspends some efforts to
counter Russian sabotage as #Trump moves closer to #Putin
Several US #NationalSecurity agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian #sabotage, #disinformation & #cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Admin pushes #Russia to end its war in #Ukraine.
#intelligence #security #USpol #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #PutinsPuppet
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-some-efforts-counter-russian-sabotage-trump-moves-closer-putin-2025-03-19/
The US Director of National #Intelligence, Tulsi #Gabbard, is now retweeting Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysian-Chinese pro-#Kremlin #propagandist living in Dubai.
#Cheong is also a columnist for the #russian state-funded outlet #RT.
Whilst it is, by definition, a big task to elevate humanities general intelligence__to decrease how many people in a population are misinformed because they don't understand the basics of #chemistry or #ecology, for example, there is no other way. We must try to 'science' the ignorance out of humanity.
The best approach is to try & explain, to show, that a general awareness of #science, is a higher general intelligence (I.e., making more informed decisions over a life time)
Priyom is an international organization intending to research and bring to light the mysterious reality of intelligence, military and diplomatic communication via shortwave radio: number stations.
And this is how it sound when you mix it all up:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/numberStationsRadioNoiseGenerator.php
@ZhiZhu@newsie.socialElon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency
Meeting between #Musk & the National Security Agency’s leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul
https://archive.is/42Id5#selection-5689.0-5693.124
"meeting with leadership a week after saying the #intelligence and #cybersecurity outfit needed an overhaul.
The discussion with the #NSA, which hadn’t been previously disclosed, centered on staff reductions & operations"
#China, #Russia, #Iran, and #NorthKorea Intelligence Sharing
Once upon a time, you had no clue what a phone was, or how to use it. But now, you've learnt to use your phone, & phones in general (a general intelligence). You don't have to learn it all again, every time you use a different phone.
This book, explains, using the research of #neuroscience, how we do that.
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of #Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-brains
@rod2ik@mastodon.socialFormer senior #Canadian #intelligence officials warn that #Canada needs to be alert for destabilization campaigns by the #UnitedStates #USA , in particular through X. #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890
#Trump will lift its pause on #military & #intelligence support for #Ukraine after Kyiv accepted a #US #ceasefire proposal.
“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, & which is subject to acceptance & concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation. The United States will communicate to #Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-drone-attack-latest-russian-capital-targeted-by-ukraine-2025-03-11/
https://www.europesays.com/1903383/ Germany’s Greens make Merz sweat over massive spending plan – POLITICO #cooperation #debt #défense #DemocraticParty #DonaldTrump #elections #Energy #FriedrichMerz #GermanElection2025 #germany #GreenEnergyTransition #history #infrastructure #intelligence #IntelligenceServices #investment #Kremlin #military #negotiations #parliament #policy #security #Services #space #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US
#Trump’s #DOJ ousts #NationalSecurity ofcls in latest #purge
The #Justice Dept has removed top national security ofcls as part of a widespread purge of snr career leaders across the agency.
The transferring of at least 3 national security ofcls amounts to a complete gutting of leadership in the highly sensitive National Security Division, which is charged w/working w/the #FBI & other #intelligence agencies to protect the nation from threats.
#coup #USpol #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/08/trumps-justice-dept-ousts-national-security-officials-latest-purge/
#Maxar has cut off #satellite imagery access to #Ukraine, undoubtedly due to pressure from the U.S. government.
This means that not just classified, but commercially available unclassified #intelligence products are being cut off.
I now fully expect #Starlink to be next.
@briankrebs Brian, what is your journalistic opinion about the News
"( 'Five Eyes
alliance' crumbling after #uk,
#australia
, #NZ
and #Canada give US
cold shoulder
Donald #Trump's rehabilitation of US-#Russia relations has forced allies to consider scaling back #intelligence
, the transatlantic relationship is also crumbling, says an ex-head of #NATO #ukraine 
#Intelligence agencies treat commitments to foreign agents as sacrosanct, pledging to keep agents safe & shield their identities. Anything that jeopardized that would violate that trust, & could lead some #spy services to hold back information from the #US.
The #allies, including #Israel, #SaudiArabia & members of the so-called #FiveEyes spy #alliance of #democracies, are examining how to revise current protocols for sharing intelligence taking #Trump’s warm relations w/ #Russia into account.
Some #US #allies are considering scaling back the #intelligence they share with Washington in response to the #Trump administration’s *conciliatory* approach to #Russia, 4 sources w/direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News.
The allies are weighing the move because of concerns about safeguarding foreign assets whose identities could *inadvertently* be revealed, said the sources, who included a foreign official.
