October 2008 Intelligence News
- U.S. intel likes Israeli media, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 6. "U.S. intelligence agencies published a favorable, extensive review of the Israeli media. The CIA, which supervises the Open Source Center, has not authorized the release of the report. Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists, obtained it and published it Monday."
- New Policy Makes Information Sharing a Factor in Employees' Performance Reviews, ODNI news release, October 6. "A new federal policy aims to increase the sharing of terrorism-related information among certain federal employees by making such exchanges a factor in annual performance appraisals."
- Joint Statement of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller on the Issuance of the Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations, news release, October 3.
- Fact Sheet: Attorney General Consolidated Guidelines for FBI Domestic Operations, news release, October 3. "The consolidated guidelines provide uniform standards, to the extent possible, for all FBI domestic investigative activities and intelligence gathering activities. They are designed to provide a single, consistent structure that applies regardless of whether the FBI is seeking information concerning federal crimes, threats to national security, foreign intelligence matters or some combination of these. Previously, different sets of guidelines applied in different investigative areas despite their often overlapping purposes and prescribed different standards and procedures for essentially similar activities."
- ODNI: Trade-off information security for good intel by Bob Brewin, Government Executive, October 1. "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a directive on Tuesday that recommends managers of information technology systems accept a lower level of security if it provides the United States with better intelligence."
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