According to CIA Chief Leon Panetta, the U.S. collected an “impressive amount” of material from Osama bin Laden’s compound, including computers and other electronics, The CIA has set up a task force to act on the fresh intelligence.

On Tuesday, Panetta assembled a group of 15 aides to assess the credibility of the intelligence that was collected at the compound in Abbottabad.

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President Barack Obama wants the Senate to act quickly to approve his nominee to head the nation’s spy agencies. He says his choice of Pentagon intelligence official James Clapper must not fall victim to Washington politics.

On June 5, 2010 President Barack Obama nominated James Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as United States Director of National Intelligence. On June 4, 2010, multiple news agencies reported that United States President Barack Obama was planning to nominate Clapper as the next Director of National Intelligence. Despite the report that Clapper was suggested to President Obama by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, both Chairwoman Diane Feinstein and Vice-Chairman Kit Bond of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have offered reservations regarding his appointment. Clapper was officially nominated by President Obama on June 5, 2010.

James R. Clapper, Jr. is a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and serves as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence – USD(I). He is also dual-hatted as the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006. Previously, he served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995.

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Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas have drawn up war plans to send five Hizballah brigades sweeping across the border to seize five sectors of Galilee. Hamas would open a second front in the south and in the east, with Syria joining the fight at a later stage.

WIkipedia: Hamas | Hizballah (Hezbollah)

SOURCE: DEBKAfile: EXCLUSIVE: US intelligence finds 5,000 Hizballah trained to seize Galilee towns

Cyber attacks on commercial, government, and military targets is on the increase. The scale and sophistication of the cyber attacks on Google Inc. and other large U.S. corporations by hackers in China is raising security concerns that the Asian superpower is escalating its industrial espionage efforts on the Internet.

Government officials and lawmakers are warning that the U.S. may already be losing the battle to protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure.

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Menlo Park), a senior member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, called China a pervasive hacker.

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Important signs missed:
Father/banker saying ‘Watch out for my son.’
Buying the ticket with cash
Coming from Yemen
No luggage

Inclination to over-react.

Not a problem that can be fixed by better sensors.

James Lewis: “We need to slow down the rate of recruitment.” (of young Muslims)