Journal: How Many CIA’s and How Threatening is the CIA to the Lives of Leon Panetta and Barack Obama?

Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Government, Leadership-Integrity, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Policy, Reform, Strategy, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Threats
Robert Steele
Robert Steele

We were surprised this morning to learn that Ray McGovern, a CIA veteran whose credibility we respect, is saying that Leon Panetta and Barack Obama may be treating CIA with kid gloves for fear of being assassinated by the “insider” CIA that itself fears criminal prosecution for the death of over 100 detainees in CIA custody.  Food for thought.  Read McGovern's thoughts at The Media Consortium, “Ray McGovern Warns of ‘Two CIA's.'”

There are two sides to this matter.  How many CIA's?  Does CIA assassinate U.S. citizens including leaders?

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Graphic: Simplified World Conflict Map

Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats
Simplified Jongman Map
Simplified Jongman Map

This chart drew on Berto Jongman's World Conflict & Human Rights Map.  It focuses only on armed conflict.  While there are many fine books that looks at “State of the World” and State of this and that, we still do not have a single map or display that properly represents the ten high-level threats to humanity, within which just two–Inter-State Conflict and Civil War–are actually “armed” conflict.  Everything else is genocide under another name, including poverty, disease, and proliferation for profit.

Graphic: Global Threats to Local Survival (1990′s)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Threats
Global Threats
Global Threats

This graphic was created after being inspired by Berto Jongman's brilliant World Conflict & Human Rights Map, a document that went out of creation in 2003 after he joined his national intelligence service.  His contribution is sorely missing and much needed again, only with an expansion to respect the profound wisdom contained in the Report of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenge, and Change, A more secure world: Our shared responsibility.  LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret), was the U.S. member of the Panel.