Oh here we go. This morning we learned that Iran shot down a US surveillance drone, heightening tensions: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked the American military amid tensions over Tehran’s unraveling nuclear deal with world powers. … Read more
The Washington Post has an editorial today about Deepfake videos are dangerous — and they target a huge weakness. The Post is talking about political attack ads, but the same could be said of heavily edited military videos that purport to show evidence of a hostile state actor attacking U.S. interests in support of going … Read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team tried to arrange an interview of Donald Trump — who repeatedly had said he would be happy to do so — for more than a year before finally settling on Trump submitting answers to written interrogatories on certain Russia-related topics in November 2018, but no questions about obstruction of justice. Predictably, … Read more
In February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean dicator Kim Jong-un and one-time heir to the North Korean leadership, was at the Kuala Lumpur international airport terminal when a woman approached him and wiped an oily substance on his face before disappearing, her unusual actions caught on CCTV. Moments later, another woman … Read more
The House Intelligence Committee is expected to hold a hearing on deep fake videos on June 13. A doctored video that appeared last month of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, was an example of a “cheap fake” and easily shown to be falsified. But Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said when … Read more