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A Siberian enlistment officer has been shot and seriously wounded during Russia’s military call-up, regional authorities said Monday as rising discontent over the draft prompted the Kremlin to acknowledge "errors" in the process.
Gruesome footage from an Irkutsk region military recruitment office showed a man in fatigues shooting another man point-blank and sending others scattering from the assembly hall.
The shooting marks one of the most dramatic instances of outrage over President Vladimir Putin’s draft of around 300,000 reservists for battle in Ukraine.
Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk region 5,000 kilometers east of Moscow, said chief enlistment officer Alexander Yeliseyev was critically wounded and is now fighting for his life as a result of the shooting.
The shooter, whom Kobzev has not identified, was detained at the recruitment office in the Irkutsk town of Ust-Ilim.
Local media outlets with close links to the security services identified the shooter as local resident Ruslan Zinin, 25.
Zinin’s mother, Marina Zinina, told the Astra independent news website that Zinin was “very upset” because his friend without military experience had allegedly received draft papers despite the authorities’ pledge to recruit strictly experienced reservists.
“Ruslan himself did not receive a summons, but his best friend did yesterday,” Zinina was quoted as saying.
An eyewitness who spoke with the Irkutsk-based Telegram channel “Bratchane” said he saw the shooter barge into the assembly hall with a sawn-off rifle and yell out “no one’s going anywhere” before going on a shooting rampage.
Investigative authorities launched a criminal case into an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer and the illegal acquisition of weapons.
Since Putin made the surprise announcement Wednesday, at least 20 recruitment offices were torched across Russia’s 11 time zones, according to the independent news website Mediazona and The Moscow Times' Russian service.
Thousands of Russians have also taken to the streets in protest. The North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the region with the highest known number of troops killed in the Ukraine war, became a flashpoint of anti-draft protests over the weekend with more than 100 reported detentions.
Also on Monday morning, a man in the western city of Ryazan set himself on fire at a bus station while saying he didn't want to take part in the war in Ukraine, local reports said.
The Kremlin admitted that errors had been made during the mobilization of reservists for the military action in Ukraine and said no decision had been taken to close Russia's borders.
"Indeed, there are cases when the (mobilization) decree was violated. In some regions, governors are actively working to rectify the situation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"Instances of non-compliance (with the decree) are decreasing. We hope this will speed up and that all errors will be corrected."
AFP contributed reporting.
The State Department’s intelligence branch is setting up a new open source office to improve how it shares analysis with diplomats worldwide under a new strategic plan that puts a major emphasis on upgrading the bureau’s IT operations.
Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, says the Strategic Open Source Coordination Office will serve as a “central point of contact” for policy, training and tradecraft around open source intelligence, or OSINT. The...
The State Department’s intelligence branch is setting up a new open source office to improve how it shares analysis with diplomats worldwide under a new strategic plan that puts a major emphasis on upgrading the bureau’s IT operations.
Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, says the Strategic Open Source Coordination Office will serve as a “central point of contact” for policy, training and tradecraft around open source intelligence, or OSINT. The new unit will also test and procure open-source tools, help deliver them overseas, and manage contracts.
The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, or INR, provides intelligence to U.S. diplomats. But most diplomats, spread out at locations across the world, have sporadic access to classified U.S. intelligence assessments.
“Being able to leverage open source in a fundamentally different way than we’ve done so to date will allow us to share our best insights at the unclassified, FOUO, or the sensitive but unclassified level, on new platforms to our diplomats overseas,” Holmgren said on Inside the IC.
The intelligence community is increasingly looking to improve its use of OSINT, especially as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays out across social media feeds, commercial satellite images and other publicly available sources.
The open source office is part of the bureau’s new strategic plan, called “INR 2025.” It lays out five major pillars, starting with an imperative to “elevate strategic analysis and redefine intelligence support to diplomacy.”
Holmgren, who was sworn in last September, said that first pillar represents something of a return to INR’s roots of developing long-range, strategic intelligence products.
“We really want to kind of reinvest in that core capability,” he said. “Over the years, we’ve become a little bit overstretched in responding to a lot of the demand for current assessments, and we’ll continue to do that, obviously, to support our policymakers. But we really want to step back and make sure that in the intelligence community, we are one of those agencies that is thinking about where the world is headed, and trying to identify some opportunities and risks over the horizon to provide a warning, and also to help enable our policymakers to think through wise foreign policy strategies.”
INR’s digital vision
The strategy also prioritizes digital modernization. As Holmgren puts it, its about shifting away from an operations and maintenance mindset for IT toward “a more modern, agile, innovative technology team.”
In order to oversee that shift, INR created a chief information officer position. Raymond Romano is currently acting CIO for the bureau. He previously led the State Department’s cyber threat investigations division at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
INR is also creating a technology governance board to oversee the bureau’s IT modernization efforts and ensure technology is incorporated into its strategic planning process moving forward, according to Holmgren.
“It’s a cultural shift, but I think it’s vitally important, and it starts at the top in terms of how the leadership of our organization views technology and the role that it will play,” he said.
The bureau is already sketching out a new mobile strategy, according to the new strategy. Holmgren says mobile devices will be key to delivering more open-source and unclassified information to diplomats across the globe.
“Imagine a diplomat riding into work in the morning, or they’re getting ready at their home in the morning, and they’re somewhere in Asia, and they’re able to pull up the INR app on their mobile device,” Holmgren said. “We want to be able to provide real-time, relevant information to our diplomats in the most accessible manner possible, and we do view a mobile as a real opportunity for us to do so.”
Tech savvy, diverse workforce
Holmgren also thinks INR’s future workforce will continue to be more technologically savvy, even if they’re not all software engineers.
“They don’t need to be fluent in JavaScript and Python languages,” he said. “They don’t need to know how to code. But they do need to understand how technology operates. They need to understand and be comfortable with using modern technology, so that they can be successful in the future.”
Holmgren says it’s not just an imperative from an internal, business operations perspective.
“I think you’ll see more officers with some backgrounds in science and technology, just given where the threat landscape is evolving in the world, everything from global pandemics to emerging technologies and cyber, and how all of these technologies are applied in the military context as well,” he said. “I think it’ll be important to have experts on our team that not only understand the deep history of a particular region, or understand applied economics, but that actually understand and have a deep familiarity with some of the science and some of the education that underpins a lot of these disciplines.”
INR’s strategy also places a priority on recruiting individuals from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity continues to be a challenge across the intelligence community.
“It’s making sure that we are being very deliberate about our recruiting strategy moving forward,” Holmgren said. “And we’re going to continue to invest in expertise, regardless of where it comes from. But we are going to make sure that we put a premium on forcing ourselves to think more critically about our recruitment strategies, and not just doing what’s easy, but doing what’s hard, because ultimately, that will make us better and more effective as a bureau in the future.”
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The FBI’s counterterrorism investigations targeting suspected White supremacists and right-wing extremists are mostly “entrapment” operations, a former agent involved in those cases told The Washington Times.
The startling accusation came from Kyle Seraphin, an FBI agent of six years who was recently suspended by the bureau. He worked in multiple field offices in the counterterrorism division and conducted investigations of suspected domestic extremism and White supremacist plots over the past few years.
“My team was deployed to 20 or 25 different high-profile, national terrorism organization or terrorism investigations between 2018 and 2021. And what I saw, as the most obvious statement, is that there are three things about counterterrorism investigations:
“No. 1, the demand for White supremacy vastly outstrips the supply of White supremacy. No. 2, the FBI’s playbook when it comes to counterterrorism investigations is always and unequivocally morally equivalent to entrapment, even if there’s a legal definition that allows them to skirt that.” Mr. Seraphin said.
Entrapment is illegal and involves manipulating or inducing subjects into committing crimes.
Third, Mr. Seraphin said, the FBI has no objective metric on how to prioritize investigations.
“There’s an entirely ridiculous internal process for determining every single national priority,” he said.
In the FBI, priorities are known as band-level threats. Each field office individually assesses the threats in its jurisdiction, or AOR (area of responsibility) in FBI jargon.
He said the No. 3 top threat for the Albuquerque field office AOR, which covers the entire state of New Mexico, is violence at abortion clinics.
“There is no requirement for an allegation of a crime to happen for someone to open a national security investigation. None. There doesn’t have to be an underlying crime at all,” Mr. Seraphin said. “To open up a case, for example, on a parent at a school board meeting, if we allege that there are enough connected pieces, it’s like, ‘OK, this person owns guns.’”
The FBI said Mr. Sraphin’s accusations of entrapment were baseless.
“This comment is inaccurate and represents a clear misunderstanding of the policy and practice in FBI investigations,” the FBI said in a statement to The Times.
Mr. Seraphin said he was suspended and placed on administrative leave at the FBI after run-ins with his supervisors that began with his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
The FBI did not mention Mr. Seraphin’s vaccination status in a letter informing him of the suspension but cited his “personal conduct” and actions that raised “sufficient concern about your judgment, trustworthiness, and reliability to safeguard classified and sensitive information.”
Mr. Seraphin is the latest in a series of FBI whistleblowers who say the bureau has become politicized.
As previously reported by The Times, rank-and-file FBI agents have accused the Biden administration of exaggerating the threat of White supremacists and pressuring agents to cook up domestic terrorist cases involving racist extremists.
Whistleblowers said some FBI bosses urge case agents to open counterterrorist cases to inflate the number of terrorism cases, helping the special agent in charge, or SAC, who runs the field office score a passing grade on job performance evaluations.
A former FBI employee who worked in Buffalo, New York, told The Times that FBI bosses in Washington focus on the volume of cases to evaluate the SACs. That leads some office supervisors to inflate the numbers.
“It’s a report card for him, so at the end of his two-year term as a SAC, he gets moved to a better position down in Washington. And everything focuses around his metrics,” the former employee said.
• Kerry Picket can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.
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The royals are no doubt quietly seething at the "slings and arrows" the "prodigal prince and his malcontent Markle" have repeatedly hurled at them, according to Sky News contributor Daisy Cousens.
Ms Cousens said she can't help but feel the royals are "more opposed to reconciliation" than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are.
Speaking on Sky News Australia, Ms Cousens said Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II "likely was the buffer between Meghan, Harry and rest of the royals who are no doubt quietly seething at the slings and arrows the prodigal prince and his malcontent Markle have repeatedly hurled at them".
"Without the Queen's steady leadership keeping the skies as clear as possible – it may be that a giant storm is about to break," Ms Cousens said.
A new ABC/Washington Post poll has revealed just 35 per cent of Democrats want the party to nominate Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election, while 56 per cent do not.
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