It’s part of a broader plan to deploy a company of the attack drones with every division in the U. S. Army, said a spokesman
The U. S. is moving attack drones to South Korea, the military says, amid continuing concerns about North Korean missile tests.
The Gray Eagle unmanned aerial systems will be permanently stationed at Kunsan Air Base, 112 miles south of Seoul, United States Forces Korea spokesman Christopher Bush said in a statement, first reported by Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper.
It’s part of a broader plan to deploy a company of the attack drones with every division in the U. S. Army, Bush said.
The drones add „significant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability to U. S. Forces Korea and our ROK partners,“ Bush said.
Deirdre M. Daly is getting a temporary exemption from the Trump administration’s mass firing of U. S. attorneys so she can hit a milestone.
„I thank the Attorney General and the Administration for affording me the opportunity to remain as the U. S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut so that I might complete 20 years of service to the Department of Justice in October,“ said Daly.
Daly has served as U. S. Attorney since May 2013. From July 2010 to May 2013, she was the first assistant U. S. attorney. From 1985 to 1997, Daly was an assistant U. S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, and later served as the Assistant-In-Charge of White Plains Office for three years. She also served as a law clerk to a a federal judge in the Southern District from 1984 to 1985.
The White House sought to clarify on Monday President Donald Trump’s wiretapping allegations against former President Barack Obama — an attempt at course correction that comes roughly after a week of media headlines about the claims.
„He doesn’t really think that president went up and tapped his phones personally,“ White House press Sean Spicer told reporters during the daily press briefing.
Spicer’s comments mark the first time the White House has sought to broaden the definition of the unsubstantiated surveillance that Trump alleged over a week ago on Twitter. President Trump posited that Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower in the weeks before the November election, using quotation marks around the words „wire tapping“ and likening the situation to „Nixon/Watergate. “
Prior to Monday, the White House did not directly answer reporters‘ questions on what informed the president’s tweets.
„The president was very clear in his Tweet, that it was you know ‚wiretapping.‘ That spans a whole host of surveillance types of options,“ Spicer said.
Asked if when the president says something Americans and the media can trust it to be real, Spicer shot back: „If he’s not joking, of course. “
The comments come on the same day as a House intelligence committee deadline requesting information regarding the president’s wiretapping allegations. President Trump ignored questions Monday about if the Department of Justice would comply with intelligence committees‘ requests to provide relevant wiretap claim evidence.
A security researcher has identified what may be the first component of a CIA hacking tool released on the internet since WikiLeaks released nearly 9,000 CIA hacking documents on the web Tuesday.
The component, posted on the website of researcher Marc Maiffret, was apparently recovered from one of the released documents , said cyber security expert Andrew Komarov , chief intelligence officer of the security firm InfoArmor.
Komarov said the component could potentially be used to extract data from a victim online or for data delivery through covert channels, since its functionality is much more about stealth than aggression. Typically, such implants are used for long-term covert victim monitoring.
„It is professionally written,“ said Komarov, „which may demonstrate a pretty serious level of malware development. “ He said it looked like a component that could have been used in „malware distribution operations“ by the CIA.
