2013 Robert Steele Reflections on [Search:] non+traditional+threat 1.2

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Searches, Threats
Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

ROBERT STEELE:  I have elected to answer this personally.  It may well be the most fundamental question this web site has received in that any corruption in the answer to this question assures the failure of any strategy, policy, acquisition, or operation that is spawned from an inherently corrupt — a deliberately corrupt — refusal to take the question seriously.

There are several ways to address this.  The first is the most obvious, which is to say that the traditional threat is state on state conventional forces, and the non-traditional threats are everything else.  Here in one chart is what General Al Gray, USMC, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, with my assistance as his ghost-writer, put in “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990's” (American Intelligence Journal, Winter 1989-1990).

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Click on Image to Enlarge

The whole point of that article was to suggest that both the US Intelligence Community and the US Department of Defense needed to radically alter how they trained, equipped, and organized.  I now realize that it was corruption, not stupidity, that buried this message.  As SOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare said in defending their decision not to go after the Somali pirates from 2005-2008 and later, “it's not an expensive enough problem.”

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Owl: Is DHS A Police State? Or Just Moving Money?

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Who?  Who?
Who? Who?

Other Pieces of the US Police State are Moving Into Place on Schedule

“Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection indicate that the agency is close to finalizing payload standards for its drone aircraft. Among the things the CBP might want to use in its unmanned aircraft: “non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize” targets. In 2009, the agency announced that it had acquired its sixth Predator drone, stationed at an Army Airfield in Arizona.”

As pointed out by a commenter to the article, “For one thing, there are no “non-lethal weapons”. DoD long ago renamed them “less than lethal”, because of the legal liability (rubber bullets can kill, just as a hard hit baseball to the chest can stop the heart) But more significant, DHS is paving the road for internal use of armed drones, against Americans! Or did you for one minute think that these birds are glued to the border, and can only face South?”

More:

Customs and Border Protection Wants to Arm Drones

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Jean Lievin & Jon Rappoport: Is Ed Snowden A Stake In Heart of USG-Wall Street Market Rigging? Is an Impeachment Shit-Storm Looming? Will Extratradition of US Bankers Be Demanded?

04 Indonesia, 05 Iran, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Liberation Technology, Military, Policy, Privacy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Max Keiser Explains Significance of Edward Snowden’s “Leak”

Twitching, rumpled and passionate, Max Keiser explains the deeper significance of Edward Snowden’s recent intelligence leaks.  It’s not about national security.  Keiser implies that Snowden has revealed evidence of a fascist market-rigging operation that’s ultimately funding America’s secret government–a corporate plutocracy.

 

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?

By Jon Rappoport

This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them, but it hits the high points…

EXTRACT

For years ATS [substitute NSA] had been using its technological superiority to conduct massive insider trading. Since the early 1980s, the company had spied on anyone and everyone in the financial world. They listened in on phone calls, intercepted faxes, and evolved right along with the technology, hacking internal computer networks and e-mail accounts. They created mountains of ‘black dollars’ for themselves, which they washed through various programs they were running under secret contract, far from the prying eyes of financial regulators.

Those black dollars were invested into hard assets around the world, as well as in the stock market, through sham, offshore corporations. They also funneled the money into reams of promising R&D projects, which eventually would be turned around and sold to the Pentagon or the CIA.

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Berto Jongman: Pakistan’s Bin Laden Dossier & Commission Report on Abbottabad

Government, Ineptitude, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Pakistan's Bin Laden dossier

Al Jazeera exclusive: The investigation into the death of al-Qaeda's leader blames top leaders for ‘gross incompetence'.

EXTRACT:

The Commission’s 336-page report is scathing, holding both politicians and the military responsible for “gross incompetence”, leading to “collective failures” that allowed Bin Laden to escape detection, and the United States to perpetrate “an act of war”.

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Steven Aftergood: Congressional Research Service

Ethics, Government, IO Impotency
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

A long-running personnel dispute at the Congressional Research Service offers up conflicting visions of the proper role of the congressional support agency, which provides policy and legal analysis to Congress.

In 2009, then-CRS Director Daniel Mulhollan fired then-CRS Division Chief Col. Morris Davis, a former Guantanamo prosecutor, after Davis publicly criticized the military commission process in an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal.  (“CRS Fires a Division Chief,” Secrecy News, December 4, 2009)

By engaging in public controversy (even as a private citizen), Col. Davis had deviated from CRS norms, according to Library of Congress General Counsel Elizabeth Pugh.

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