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Snowden-Proof? NSA Trying to Stop Future Leakers

The National Security Agency – notorious for targeting the general public with its surveillance programs – will monitor its own employees to guard against another leak like the one perpetrated by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.

ROBERT STEELE: In 1986, while serving on detail within CIA's Office of Information Technology, I pointed out the insanity of providing total access to everyone. No one wanted to listen then. They still do not want to listen.

2015/04/122015/04/10

Mini-Me: Military Veterans Ask Drone Pilots to Stop

07 Other Atrocities, Drones & UAVs, Ethics, Military

Huh?

Military Veterans Target US Drone Strikes in TV Ads

A group of military veterans is taking aim at U.S. drone strikes overseas with graphic TV ads directly asking Air Force pilots to stop flying the unmanned aircraft, calling the operations immoral and illegal.

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2015/04/122015/04/10

Robert Parry: Neocon, R2P Hypocrisy

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

Neocons, R2Pers and Hypocrisy

Exclusive: R2Pers say America has a “responsibility to protect” endangered people around the world, but this R2P moral imperative is selective, often indistinguishable from neocons tolerating some slaughters and choosing to wage war against certain enemies — just dressed up in liberal rhetoric, reports Robert Parry.

2015/04/092015/04/09

Berto Jongman: US Military Hosed — Duh!

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence

US military tactics falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns

Robert Work: ‘Our technological superiority is slipping. We see it every day’
Deputy defense secretary wants to bring US military into ‘post-insurgency era’

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2015/04/092015/04/08

Neal Rauhauser: Special Ops Look at Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

What most will not realize is that the insights in the document are relevant to the growing anger and potential domestic insurgency in the USA. We have 2.5 million veterans from OEF/OIF, assuming 20% in combat that's 500k, Army/Marines are about 20% black if I recall, so that's 100k guys who have “seen the elephant”. And then you have the Hispanics, many with gang connections but most clean cut and ready for righteous revenge. We got the D.C. Sniper and Oklahoma out of 38 days of ground combat in Desert Storm when vets came back to a roaring economy. Now we have guys who did three and four tours that came back to America in a tailspin.So, you tell me what happens when the next time a cop shoots a guy in the back because he had a broken tail light, and his brother has that CBI badge and a couple of equally fed up friends? Terrifies me, but we are headed that direction at a good clip and I see no signs of change.

PDF (138 Pages): JSOU Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks

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2015/04/08

Berto Jongman: Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Programs? PBI: Or Just Plain Dishonesty?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Media, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies?

More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism, or how to counter it. And, if the recently increasing criticism is correct, the government’s investment in academic terrorism research isn’t helping. It may be because the government is continuing to fund research supporting discredited theories of terrorist radicalization, rather than objective empirical analyses.