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It is worth noting that the Director of National Intelligence is the fourth woman forced out of the Trump's cabinet this term (joining the Attorney General, Sec. of Homeland Security, and Sec. of Labor); no men have been forced out, even among very clear evidence of misuse of office for personal reasons (including flying on taxpayer's expense to visit the US Olympic Hockey Team, flying on taxpayer's expense to visit a girlfriend in Las Vegas, or excessively drinking on the job — and that's just one guy (the head of the FBI)).

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Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence

A recent UK national security assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem collapse made headlines, not for its dire warnings, but for its omiss

Western governments have a track record of suppressing climate change intelligence assessments. Take the US spy community, for example. Despite decades of tracking and analyzing national security risks posed by climate change and making many of those intelligence products publicly available, the Office of the Director of Intelligence insists that it must keep a 2008 National Intelligence Assessment on the “National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030” classified. Former intelligence officials have testified publicly about the report, cited the report in literature, and supported calls for the report’s declassification, to no avail. After almost two decades, the report remains classified to this day at the confidential level, the lowest level of national security secrecy. More recently, in 2022, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asked the nation’s most senior intelligence chief Andrew Shearer to personally lead a review of security threats posed by the climate crisis. Months later, Albanese refused to release the report or even say when it had been completed. Defense spokesperson for Australia’s Green Party David Shoebridge dubbed the Aussie government the “cult of secrecy in Canberra.” Since then, Albanese has continued to reject calls to make “even a saniti[z]ed version of the assessment public.”

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It’s been well documented that intelligence agencies will sometimes withhold information to shield themselves from public shaming or awkwardness. The still-classified 2008 National Intelligence Council report is a perfect example of this phenomenon. In a 2021 Bulletin article, Thomas Fingar, the chair of the council at that time, stated that report “was kept classified because the United States didn’t want ambassadors from countries identified as especially vulnerable to climate change to start calling and asking for resources to help with mitigation and adaptation earlier than they would otherwise.” A similar instinct could very well be at play in the United Kingdom right now, with some outlets reporting that the prime minister may be withholding the unabridged DEFRA report to avoid public criticism that the government isn’t doing enough to stave off the worst effects of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.

23 February 2026

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A lot of questions remain unanswered about how much the ever-tightening relationship between private AI and for-profit automated decision making systems will impact much needed transparency and accountability.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/news/the-u-s-national-security-state-is-here-to-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable

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Intelligence Community Warns on Election Day Eve that Russia Is Conducting ‘Additional Influence Operations’.

The intelligence community issued a public statement on the eve of the 2024 election to warn that foreign adversaries — “particularly Russia” — were conducting additional influence operations “intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of the U.S. elections.”

The statement, by the Biden Administration Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, released Monday said:

Since our statement on Friday, the IC has been observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states.

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The U.S. Government Is Still in Its Tumblr Era

The “IC on the Record” Tumblr was created after the biggest leak in intelligence history.

A few months ago, as a debate was heating up over whether to renew an FBI surveillance authority known as Section 702, I was looking for an unsealed court document from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). I asked a colleague if FISC had a website where I could find these opinions. “Oh, that’s easy,” my colleague said. “Just check their Tumblr.” Sure enough, I found the document on the Tumblr in question: “IC on the Record,” a website “created at the direction of the President of the United States and maintained by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,” which promised “direct access to factual information related to the lawful foreign surveillance activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” How did the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—a senior-level agency representing the entire intelligence community including the CIA and the National Security Agency—come to host some of the most important docs on a platform better known for cat gifs, LGBTQ+ discourse, and indie sleaze? And why, 10 years later, after the internet moved beyond the cat gifs, Tumblr alienated its queer communities, and Gen Z went through a cycle of Tumblr-aesthetic nostalgia, is the government still in its Tumblr era?

There are a number of government agencies that I follow here on Tumblr, so I shouldn't be surprised to learn (ten years late) that the U.S. intelligence community has an account too, but I am.