Berto Jongman: DEA Secretly Enables Drug Epidemic

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

berto smallDEA Secretly OKs Killer Quantities of Oxy and Morphine

The feds could choke off the supply of pills flooding American streets tomorrow. Instead, they let Big Pharma crank out 300 tons of it last year. The federal government is actively fueling a killer drug epidemic behind closed doors.

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Mongoose: Tom Cruise as Barry Seal on CIA Running Drugs via Arkansas — the End of Clinton & Bush Candidacies?

Corruption, Government
Mongoose
Mongoose

One of the biggest and fiercely kept “fog facts” in America's Dirty Linen Basket – one for which any further revelations for both political parties is absolute dynamite with ample portions of nitroglycerine thrown in for good measure – has been made into a feature film, starring of all people Tom Cruise.

Here's a promo snippet.

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Tom Engelhardt: Fog of Intelligence

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt

The Fog of Intelligence (Or How to Be Eternally “Caught Off Guard” in the Greater Middle East)

1,500. That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) playing fast and loose with intelligence reports to give their air war against ISIS an unjustified sheen of success: “CENTCOM’s mammoth intelligence operation, with some 1,500 civilian, military, and contract analysts, is housed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, in a bay front building that has the look of a sterile government facility posing as a Spanish hacienda.”

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Steve Aftergood: Intelligence Lessons from Fort Hood — Information Systems (and Legal) Still Stink

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING

In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel report was finally declassified and released this week.

EXTRACT:

“Inadequate information technology runs through both the Fort Hood and the NW Flight 253 narratives, particularly the inability of IT systems to help analysts locate relevant reporting in a sea of fragmentary data or to correct for seemingly minor human errors.”

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