Retired Gen. Keith Alexander, president, IronNet Cybersecurity
He has commanded armed forces and directed the National Security Agency. Now, he s president of vendor IronNet Cybersecurity. From this unique perspective, retired General Keith Alexander says the SolarWinds breach is a call for action.
There s plenty of speculation about the breach s scope, damage and attribution. But it s clear to Alexander that the U.S. public and private sectors have been dangerously exposed. The breach highlights a strategic vulnerability our nation has, and we should be very concerned,” Alexander says. “If we don’t fix it, that will eventually be used against us and cause great damage. . This is a call for action for our nation.”
Agency (NSA), monitors and screens all telephone, telegraph, computer modem, radio, television, cellular, microwave, and satellite communications, and electromagnetic fields “of interest” around the world, and orchestrates information-control and cover-up activities related to UFO secrecy and surveillance of extra-terrestrial operations, Fort Meade, MD.
National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO), controls and collects information from global spy satellites, monitors UFO traffic entering and leaving Earth’s atmosphere, coordinates firing of energy beam weapons from orbiting Star Wars satellites at selected human ground and airborne targets and selectively at extra-terrestrial craft, Pentagon basement and Dulles Airport area, VA.
National Reconnaissance
Organization (NRO) (aka MJ-TF), the military/intelligence operations arm of the PI-40 Subcommittee, conducts surveillance, interdiction, capture and confiscation of UFOs and their extra-terrestrial occupants for intelligence
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Hi folks. This is the last newsletter of 2020. I hope that reading it has made your year slightly less dreadful. Plaintext will return to your inboxes in 2021. And if you are Santa, forget the chimney entrance and leave the presents on the back porch, please. Nothing personal.
The Plain View
Earlier this month I was pleased to get an invitation from the commander of US Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service (all one person, Paul Nakasone) to a ceremony inducting Whitfield Diffie into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor. I had written about Diffie, the coinventor of public key cryptography, in my book
This article has been corrected to show Richard Fisher s name and correctly state Melissa Francis previous speaking engagements.Â
The University of North Texas spent at least $691,095 to bring 14 different speakers to its Kuehne Speaker Series over the past seven years.
Speakers have included business magnates, Fox News personalities, military officers, authors, celebrity lawyers and members of President Donald Trumpâs inner circle.
The series is funded by private donors and sponsorships and was founded in 2013.
Contracts for all but two of the seriesâ speakers were obtained by the
Denton Record-Chronicle through the Texas Public Information Act.
A UNT spokesperson confirmed via email that Jerry Jones and T. Boone Pickens did not have contracts for the series because they were not paid for their speaking engagements.
The US Department of Defense is planning to withdraw most support for CIA counter-terror missions by the beginning of next year, in a move expected to have a broad effect on the scope of the intelligence agency’s paramilitary operations, a senior defense official and former senior administration official with direct knowledge of the move told CNN. Reportedly, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller informed CIA Director Gina Haspel of the decision in a letter. The same report said Biden will reverse the move.
As this is clearly an unnamed official, we await a formal DOD announcement. But in the meantime take a look at the complexities of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense.