The CIA’s Latest Mission: Improving Diversity

TIME

A weapons analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, Lisa was sorting resumes with a colleague when something shocking happened.

Lisa, who is black, was helping her white coworker find the best applicants for overseas posts, which are considered prestigious within the agency and can lead to more important jobs down the line. Lisa was midway through her own overseas posting and had already seen how it helped her career.

But looking at the resumes, her coworker casually said that she would not hire a black man.

“She told me that if there is a white man — doesn’t matter how capable the black man is — I’m picking the white man,” recalled Lisa. (At the request of the CIA, TIME agreed to withhold last names of agency employees, many of whom work undercover.) “As a minority, you know that, but to have someone tell you that? It’s telling.”

Like workplaces…

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The Fight for Yemen (PBS Frontline)

This video contains information on the current conflict in Yemen, including the Houthi rebels, AQAP, and the Saudi coalition.

See the full video here.

“Redaction Poetry” and Overclassification at the US National Archives

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Last week the Foundation for the National Archives (an independent organization that “generates financial and creative support” for the Archives and shares its address) launched an eyebrow raising promotion to celebrate National Poetry Month: selecting archival documents, censoring them, and calling it “redaction poetry.”

While celebrating poetry and attempting to bring attention to Archival holdings are noble goals (along with much more that the Archives Foundation does), this promotion has struck many who have struggled with the National Archives’ sputtering declassification and FOIA regimes¹ as being in poor taste, considering the vast volumes of information held by NARA that remain withheld from public view, or improperly censored by the Archives’ National Declassification Center.

To highlight these problems, the National Security Archive has selected a few real life examples of “redaction poetry” where the declassifiers at NARA have failed.

Submission One: “Twice Released…

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“F-35 programme begins developing cyber-attack capability” (IHS Jane’s)

“The F-35 programme is developing a pod-mounted cyber-attack system. The offensive system is in the “prototyping phase”, according to the deputy programme manager”

See: http://www.janes.com/article/50036/f-35-programme-begins-developing-cyber-attack-capability?utm_campaign=%5bPMP%5d_PC5308_J360%2020.3.15%20_KV_Deployment&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

Navy launches newest recruiting commercial

WTKR.com

The Navy has launched its newest recruiting commercial ‘Pin Map’

‘Pin Map’ highlights the service’s unique ability to operate around the world–on, above and below the sea. It ends with the tagline “America’s Navy” and is intended to build awareness of the full spectrum of unique roles of the Navy and its personnel.

The second commercial to be released in recent months, “Pin Map” complements “The Shield,” a more people-focused commercial which debuted in December 2014.

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Magnets Used to Plant Drugs Under Cars From Mexico

Kerry and Hollande Call for Intensified Fight Against Terrorism

TIME

Talk at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos turned to the fight against terrorism Friday, with French President François Hollande and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry encouraging the influential world figures gathered here to step up efforts to fight Islamist extremists.

Kerry told the audience that the fight against terrorism would include a military component but also needed to address the economic and educational conditions that can provide fertile ground for extremists. “This fight will not be decided on the battlefield, but in the classrooms, workplaces, places of worship of the world,” he said. Kerry said he would be traveling shortly to Nigeria, whose government is waging a war against the increasingly emboldened Islamist group Boko Haram.

Hollande, who led more than one million people in a unity rally in Paris following terrorist attacks in the city this month that left 17 people dead, called on…

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