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Iran war cost tops $40B and billions more monthly, budget analysis finds https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/09/16/repub/iran-war-cost-40b/ #Politics #NationalSecurity #Budget

“The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote – and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation. “They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people,” Mr. Sylvestre said. “We prayed before we started the meeting.”” Behind the cross-border effort to sway Alberta’s secession vote: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f3d6096fceb1ffaea4f7c251d5656078f7a4e8a4d6ae6b777aa0c542a4568ade/WNKMWCY55VAD5J6YR2QDXFDVYY/#GiftLink #Canada #USA #Trump #Republicans #ForeignInterference #NationalSecurity #Tariffs #TradeWar #Alberta #NaturalResources #Oil #ElbowsUp

Alberta Separatism Fuelled by Russian Networks and US Influencers A sweeping new report traces how online campaigns are amplifying division inside Canada “The report’s central finding is stark: Canada’s cognitive sovereignty is being actively targeted by foreign governments, state-aligned media networks, ideological operatives, and profit-driven manipulation systems, all of them pressing on the same fault line at the same time. That fault line is Alberta.” https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/#Canada #Alberta #Russia #USA #Trump #Republicans #Canadian #NationalSecurity #Terrorists #ElbowsUp

The setback comes as #AI leader #Anthropic raced to sell novel #technology to #business & #government, particularly for #NationalSecurity, ahead of its widely expected #IPO. At the same time, the battle over #tech #guardrails had raised concerns that the #DoD would follow #US #law [certainly not this one] but little other constraint when deploying AI for national-security missions, regardless of #safety or #ethics service terms embraced by the technology's developers. #Trump #surveillance

So much for holding back. GMAFB. #Pentagon declares #Anthropic a threat to #NationalSecurity #Defense Secretary Pete #Hegseth declared Anthropic a “#SupplyChainRisk,” blocking all federal agencies & contractors from doing business with the company. #Trump #RevengePolitics #law #AI #tech #surveillance #AutonomousWeapons #privacy #security #InfoSec #military

#Flydubai flight to #TelAviv diverted to #SaudiArabia. Israeli sources suspect co-pilot was trying to #hijack plane after stabbing captain. Flight #FZ1073 was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv, but sources say after a "violent incident" between the 2 pilots, it was diverted to Tabuk airport in northern Saudi Arabia. Flight data shows the plane dropped 17,400 feet in just under 2 minutes. #terrorism #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics #Israel

In addition to the #FBI getting hacked, the #Pentagon’s personnel database breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people. The breach included Social Security numbers & details about jobs people held. The scope & sensitivity of the exposed information could raise #NationalSecurity concerns, particularly because the files included details about the jobs performed by #military & civilian personnel. #InfoSec #cybersecurity #Trump #kakistocracy

IC Brief Morning — 2026-09-28 US counterterrorism posture faces converging operational pressures from DOJ's 23,000 case declinations including 1,300+ terrorism investigations, the Burgwald-Rae reassignment from the Washington Field Office's counterterrorism division, and the disrupted explosives plot at RAF Fairford. The FBI Agents Association or named former officials will likely link the Burgwald-Rae case to broader capacity concerns within 30 days, citing the declination data or the Fairford arrests. Low confidence reflects the conjunction: it turns on a named official bridging the personnel dispute with the quantitative evidence or the Fairford catalyst. ProPublica's declination data provides the quantitative evidence CT critics lacked. The Burgwald-Rae case gives the FBI Agents Association a personnel grievance to anchor objections. If neither thread is publicly fused with the Fairford arrests, the resource debate stays compartmentalized. US or European officials will very likely cite Russia's NATO sabotage campaign, including the Polish Starlink arson and Romania-Moldova drone incursions, as evidence of election-infrastructure risk before November's midterms. Moderate confidence rests on a low resolution bar across a broad eligible pool in a five-week pre-election window. Absence of any such citation would signal the sabotage pattern and election-system vulnerabilities remain bureaucratically compartmentalized. https://icbrief.org/icbrief/ #Intelligence #OSINT #NationalSecurity

IC Brief Morning — 2026-09-25 Federal cybersecurity governance faces structural exposure: Congress will very likely not enact binding cybersecurity enforcement authority before year-end, absent a catalytic breach forcing emergency action. The Cruz-Warner telecom security bill and the requested DOD AI-targeting IG investigation will likely stall at introduction by December 31. Moderate confidence reflects the legislation's voluntary architecture, the absence of majority backing for the IG referral, and Congress's pattern of deferring binding mandates after major breaches. A Commerce Committee markup or public IG probe confirmation would shift both assessments. Russian intelligence operations now extend into NATO logistics nodes, with forensic indicators linking a suspected explosive device near the Bundeswehr's Wunstorf A400M air base to the GRU network behind the August Leipzig airport attack. NATO or the EU will very likely not announce a coordinated multi-member counter-sabotage initiative by December 31, leaving countermeasures bilateral and incremental. A publicly disclosed federal breach attributed to unpatched vulnerabilities or cloud misconfiguration of the type the DHS IG identified is very likely within the next six months. At least one US federal agency will likely announce a procurement security review citing the Oxygen Forensics case by March 31, 2027. https://icbrief.org/icbrief/ #Intelligence #OSINT #NationalSecurity

An interested discussion about what AI has already done. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/open-ai-hack-australia-medicare-government-b3055494.html #AI #politics #nationalsecurity #hacking

"Pres. Donald Trump (Putin's Puppet) has invited Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin to the December G20 summit in Miami" just like a real puppet would do: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/23/trump-putin-g20-miami-01089850 #NationalSecurity #politics

How to understand Trump's national security defense in his press ban https://www.npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-5978862/how-to-understand-trumps-national-security-defense-in-his-press-ban #Politics #NationalSecurity #USNews

You know what? If Trump et al. really cared about #nationalsecurity, they would be working hard to slow #climate change, which hundreds of defense and intelligence agency assessments (pre-Trump) have acknowledged are actual security threats. I document them here:

Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/us/politics/fbi-hack-shinyhunters-data.html #Cybersecurity #DataBreach #NationalSecurity

U.S. and China Discuss System to Warn of A.I. National Security Issues https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/us-china-ai-warning-system-national-security.html #AI #NationalSecurity #GlobalAffairs

IC Brief Morning — 2026-09-19 A faulty AI chatbot assessment that nearly triggered a US-China military confrontation exposes a structural verification gap in machine-generated intelligence that Congress will very likely cite in FISA and AI oversight debates before year-end. Section 702 renewal is very likely to fail before the Thanksgiving recess, leaving the IC's primary foreign-intelligence collection authority lapsed through at least December. Moderate confidence reflects collapsed Democratic support and reform advocates' incentive to run out the clock past midterms. Three factors sustain the assessment: the June 12 automatic-repeal lapse, no Senate scheduling of its renewal bill, and Rep. Raskin's framing of March as the real deadline, which gives reform-minded members no reason to accept a clean pre-Thanksgiving extension. A senior IC official will likely argue publicly before November that the lapse degrades collection against a specific foreign threat. The US government will very likely issue a public attribution naming Russian covert influence operations targeting the midterms before Election Day, consistent with precedent from every federal cycle since 2016. If Congress treats the AI chatbot near-miss as systemic rather than an isolated analyst failure, H.R.10502's mandatory AI-use reporting requirement gains momentum that its thin sponsorship base cannot generate alone. https://icbrief.org/icbrief/ #Intelligence #OSINT #NationalSecurity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117294329348657581 Gen. (Ret.) Mark Hertling said: "Lying about casualties* is the sign of a weak leader." Donald Trump is that weak leader, and he and his Department of Defense lied about #IranWar casualties. casualties = dead and wounded #military personnel. Sources: MSNOW, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post. copy: @renewedresistance@channel.org #politics #NationalSecurity

Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-ai-safety-anthropic-openai-china.html #Politics #AI #NationalSecurity

Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/trump-ai-safety-anthropic-openai-china.html #Politics #AI #NationalSecurity

Coast Guard boards US-bound vessels apparently compromised by hackers, officials say https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/09/17/coast-guard-boards-us-bound-vessels-apparently-compromised-by-hackers-officials-say/ #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity #Maritime