Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Amazon AWS: Good enough for the CIA Leena Rao has a fascinating background story at Fortune on Amazon Web Services, built around a profile of its leader, Senior Vice President Andy Jassy. It’s worth reading the whole thing, but this bit was particularly interesting: Netflix’s adoption also …Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Petraeus reaches plea deal with Justice Department Kevin Johnson and Tom Vanden Brook, reporting for USA Today: The explosive details in the agreement show that Petraeus lied to investigators, divulged a massive amount of sensitive data to Paula Broadwell and worried about how she handled them in …Thursday, September 26, 2013
Some oaths are apparently more oathy than othersThis is a great article, but this bit is particularly rich. Tyler Bass of Vice’s Motherboard reports the now well-known Petraeus affair with an elegant juxtaposition of facts: “Oaths do matter,” David H. Petraeus, then C.I.A. director, said at the …Saturday, January 5, 2013
CIA Comments on Zero Dark ThirtyDeborah Pearlstein of the law blog Opinio Juris shared the statement of Michael Morell, the Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the film Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for and capture of Osama Bin Laden. Its interesting that he would feel …