Things appear to be going well inside federal agencies.

On Dec. 27, a Calif. tech executive suing a journalist for publishing his domestic violence arrest report filed a declaration in court saying he's not a public figure.

On Dec. 31, he issued a press release describing himself as a "thought leader" about an H1-B essay he wrote.

... a Nigerian preacher. A person associated with a Russian petrochemical company called Agro Allied Agency. Someone whose phone was in Kherson, site of some of the fiercing fighting in the Russian-Ukraine war.

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Law enforcement is getting better at OSINT. NYPD joint robbery task force napped a suspect in a Queens robbery based on his "distinctive multicolored underwear," per a complaint filed in federal court.

Morell was talking about the use of what the intelligence community calls "commercially-available information." He says he doesn't want to even talk about specific data sets and capabilities because then adversaries might change their behavior. See below for his full remarks:

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