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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.”

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

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Graphic: State-USAID Joint Strategic Goal Framework

02 Diplomacy, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace

Source: U.S. Department of State-USAID FY 2014–2017 Joint Strategic Plan

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David Brin: The Half Life of Secrets

Ethics, Government

Surveillance: A Golden Age or Dark Days?

My friend and info-perceptive wiseman Peter Swire, who helped to formulate the post-Snowden NSA reforms issued by the Obama Administration, has a series of articles and white papers of interest to anyone who is serious about the core topic of our era.

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Michel Bauwens: Workers Becoming Powerful

03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Workers are about to become much more powerful: How will capitalism adapt ?

In Britain, three basic things would lay the groundwork for a more controlled shift of pricing power towards the workforce and away from employers: the right to a written contract; the obligation to publish salary bands for specific job titles in private-sector firms; and limiting temporary contracts to genuinely temporary or seasonal tasks.

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Berto Jongman: CIA’s Digital Innovation…

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

CIA goes live with new cyber directorate, massive internal reorganization

The DDI’s formation implies that the CIA is increasingly bent on securing 21st century relevance on the overall American spying landscape, where other agencies — namely the cyber- and electronic-surveillance-focused National Security Agency (NSA) — have emerged as dominant shapers of U.S. intelligence policy.

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: CIA's Digital Innovation…”

2015/10/032015/10/02

Yoda: Afghan’s Rural Green Project

03 Environmental Degradation, 08 Wild Cards, Ethics, Government

One of the poorest regions in Afghanistan is teaching the world about sustainability

The Rural Green Environment Organization is entirely rewriting the environmental narrative for 90 villages and 40,000 people in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The region has endured decades of conflict, insecurity and the overharvesting of natural resources. What was once a region battered by conflict and environmental degradation is now flourishing.

2015/10/012015/09/30

Mongoose: Hillary Clinton’s Secret Spy Network….

Commerce, Corruption, Government

What Was a Member of Clinton's ‘Secret Spy Network' Doing While Working for CBS News?

In March, an investigation by ProPublica and Gawker revealed that a “secret spy network” that was not on the State Department payroll, run by longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal, was “funneling intelligence about the crisis in Libya directly to the Secretary of State’s private account starting before the Benghazi attack.” Now the WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service in Europe who was working directly with Blumenthal as a member of Clinton’s spy network, was concurrently working as a consultant to CBS News and its venerable news program 60 Minutes. Read more.