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FISA use up in last 3 years

FISA will expire at the end of this year without congressional reauthorization. Before its enactment, the attorney general could authorize such surveillance without court approval.

GAO: FBI needs to plan a counterterrorism division plan for vacancies

The FBI has solved--at least in the short term--its counterterrorism division staffing problem, says the Government Accountability Office in the first publicly-released GAO assessment of intelligence activities since Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a  directive  (.pdf) in April 2011 telling intelligence community components to cooperate with the GAO "to the fullest extent possible."  

New guidelines make counterterrorism information more shareable

The National Counter Terrorism Center, which serves as a terrorism data clearing house for the intelligence community, enacted new guidelines March 22 on the access, retention, use and dissemination

Clapper sounds alarm on cyber capabilities of Iran, China and Russia

In unclassified testimony Jan. 31, top U.S. intelligence official James Clapper revealed little new but sounded alarm bells against an increasingly aggressive Iran and the cyber-intelligence

Intel chief looks to metadata, identity management to prevent WikiLeaks redux

The intelligence community has embarked on a 5 year metadata and identity management effort meant to prevent a repeat of incidents such as the WikiLeaks disclosure of State Department cables, said