On 13 February, the US Department of Justice announced that an eight year sentence had been handed to Eric McGinnis, 39, from Dallas. (http://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/man-carrying-prohibited-3d-printed-gun-found-list-lawmakers-addresses). He had successfully 3D printed parts for a short barrel AR-15 rifle despite being banned from purchasing or owning firearms. He didn’t print out the whole …
On 10 February a story appeared in the Sunday Express stating that SIS, Mossad and the CIA had collaborated in an operation to smuggle a nuclear scientist out of Iran and, eventually, into the US. You can read the story here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1085207/spies-MI6-smuggle-iranian-defector-dinghy-uk-channel The story is strange in that much of …
Donald Trump has recommended ex-CIA officer and former Fox News reporter Lea Gabrielle to lead the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), the US agency (part of the Department of State) tasked with countering foreign disinformation attacks. The GEC was first established in April 2016 as attention focused on Russian disinformation efforts …
Former Major General Mark R Quantock has been appointed executive vice president of Strategic Accounts at Babel Street, a software analytics and data recovery company based in Washington. Babel Street specialises in “assigning and charting sentiment for social media in all of the 18 major world languages in near real …
On 7 February, Donald Trump nominated Christopher Scolese as the new Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Scolese is currently director of the NASA Goddard Flight Centre, a post he has held since 2012. Before that he worked for NASA in Washington. The NRO is responsible for the United …