Steven Aftergood: CRS on Cross-Cutting Intelligence Issues

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

CROSS-CUTTING INTELLIGENCE ISSUES, AND MORE FROM CRS

A new report from the Congressional Research Service raises the possibility that polygraph testing of intelligence employees could be phased out in favor of “continuous evaluation” (CE), i.e. the automated monitoring of financial, criminal and other databases.

The notion was suggested in a CRS overview of selected intelligence policy issues, including budget management, the quality of analysis, big data, workforce diversity, global coverage, and transparency. The new CRS report, written by Anne Daugherty Miles, does not make recommendations, but instead presents a series of questions for congressional consideration, such as:

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Jon Rappoport: Manufacturing consent in science: the diabolical twist

05 Energy, 07 Health, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Media
Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

Manufacturing consent in science: the diabolical twist

Predatory corporations who spray poisonous pesticides all over the world and cause birth defects need special protection and cover? Invent, overnight, and broadcast, a consensus that a basically harmless virus is the cause of those tragic defects. I can assure you there are many scientists who don’t, for a second, believe the Zika virus is the agent of destruction. But they are keeping their mouths shut now and rolling with the tide.

Chuck Spinney: The Palestinian Question: Why the Two-State Solution is Kaput Water and the Creeping Annexation of the West Bank

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 12 Water, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The Palestinian Question: Why the Two-State Solution is Kaput

Water and the Creeping Annexation of the West Bank

So Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and its lock of the West Bank’s water resources will continue unabated, in part financed by tax deductible donations from the US, and propped up by increased military aid.

Mongoose: Saudi Bribe Malaysian Prime Minister — $681 Million, “Just a Gift”

Corruption, Government
Mongoose
Mongoose

Path of $681 Million: From Saudi Arabia to Malaysian Premier’s Personal Account

How did $681 million end up being deposited in the personal bank account of Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, last year? Not in any corrupt way, officials insist.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Thursday that an unspecified Saudi source had given a large sum of money as a “genuine donation” with no obligations attached. He joined top Malaysian leaders in waving away any suggestion of scandal. Continue reading “Mongoose: Saudi Bribe Malaysian Prime Minister — $681 Million, “Just a Gift””

Berto Jongman: US Military Stockpiles Around the World — Easy Pickings….

Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Pentagon Setting Up Military Stockpiles Around World Without Risk Checks

The US Department of Defense is failing to provide risk assessments in its prepositioning of equipment including weapons in Europe and around the world, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said.

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Mongoose: Did CIA Steal the Panama Papers from the German BND? Is Germany Breaking Away from Vassal State Status?

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War
Mongoose
Mongoose

PANAMA PAPERS HEIST BY CIA-NSA AIMED AT BERLIN, BRICS, ALBA, …

In Summary: The CIA routinely betrays and abuses German interests. The last straw is the Snowden revelation of NSA intercepts of every email out of the Chancellor’s office and eavesdropping on their phone conversations by bugging optical fiber. Germany retaliates by shutting down the joint Wharpdrive project for monitoring communications on the super-fast DE-CIX network and then expelling the Berlin CIA station chief. CIA Munich then bribes a BND file clerk to steal the Mossack Fonseca archives. After vetting the legal papers for Agency spooks, the archive is trucked to CIA-controlled Suddeutsche Zeitung, to put a stick in Merkel’s eye on her home turf. MossFon is redacted to target the leaders of the BRICS group and ALBA alliance.  Read more.