Jack Davis: Role of the Intelligence Professional — Doctor, Lawyer .. Teacher … Priest?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Government
Jack Davis
Jack Davis

Jack Davis, dean of analysts and integrity czar for the CIA, was recognized today with a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAIE), Dr. Bill Spracher Chapter Chair presiding. After laudatory anecdotes from several senior members, Jack offered a few comments centered around his learning over time that intelligence professionals must not only be doctors to the policy client, but lawyers as well. Implicit in his remarks and his lifetime of service as a trusted briefer was a third role, that of  teacher. During the Q&A he was asked about a fourth role, positing a corrupt government, that of priest.

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Fiona Bywaters: Notes on the Open Source Everything Manifesto (World Futures Council Perspective)

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Fiona Bywaters
Fiona Bywaters

The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust
By Robert David Steele (2012)

Notes by Fiona Bywaters of the World Futures Council

DOC (4 Pages): Notes on the OSE Manifesto (Fiona Bywaters)

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William Colby: Security in an Open Society — Address on Secrecy Given at NSA in 1973

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Hon. William Colby
Hon. William Colby

Security in an Open Society

The following is an edited version of the address given in the NSA Auditorium in November as the feature of Security Week 1973.

PDF (4 Pages): Colby on Secrecy at NSA in 1973

EXTRACT

“We are all also aware of Gresham's law in economics, which says that bad money drives out good. If we overclassify, we develop in people's minds a contempt for the classification rules, for if some items that really are not secret at all are classified, it means the whole system is nonsense.”

Mini-Me: German Mustard Gas Used by Iraq Against Iran Under US Supervision — Is Russian Money Buying the Truth?

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Media
Who?  Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Journalist Reveals Iraqis Used German Mustard Gas on Iranians Under US Watch in 1988

MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, has revealed that Iraqis, guided by the United States, used German mustard gas against Iranian soldiers in 1988.

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The mustard gas was brought to Iraq from Germany labeled as “pesticides,” Ulfkotte explained in the e-mail. “The US gave the satellite photos of the Iranian positions and supervised the action and the Iraqis did it – and I photographed it and was not allowed to publish it,” the journalist said.

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Mongoose: Year of the White House Jumper — You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet…

Civil Society, Corruption, Ethics, Government
Mongoose
Mongoose

The Year of the White House Jumper: Five trespassers have made their way past the presidential gates in 2014

Four of the intruders scaled the iron fence surrounding Obama’s mansion while one, a toddler, actually squeezed in between the bars of the fence.

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