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The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump's order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks. In fact, as a new report finds, 72 individuals from the seven ‘mostly Muslim countries' covered by President Trump's “extreme vetting” executive order have been convicted of terrorism since 9/11.

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2017/02/102017/02/08

DefDog: Two-Thirds of All US Navy Jets Cannot Fly

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

Nearly two-thirds of US Navy’s strike fighters can’t fly

…nearly two-thirds of the fleet’s strike fighters can’t fly – grounded because they’re either undergoing maintenance or simply waiting for parts or their turn the aviation depot backlog.

Long comment below the fold.

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2017/01/222020/01/13

On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

Ineptitude, Military

Article @ CounterPunch

Full Text Below the Fold.

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2017/01/062017/01/13

The Trump “Intelligence” Briefing Has No Proof Russians Hacked (or Leaked) Anything: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections UPDATE 8

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence

Best line = ZERO proof:

“Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation, and precedents.”

We do not make this stuff up. The DNI just committed suicide.

In three parts.

01: The raw document as a pdf with no registration required (link below).

IC 2017 on Russians Hacking US Election

02: Evaluative and contextual comments by Robert Steele.

03: Evaluative and contextual comments by others as they are obtained.

Final appraisal: Trump right, IC wrong, 5 strikes itemized below. Only 3 agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) signed this report, not “all seventeen.” DHS notable for its absence.

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2016/12/242016/12/20

Berto Jongman: Death of BBC, Questionable Capacity of CIA’s OSE

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

BBC at risk of death — CIA's OSE allegedly covers 75% of world to BBC's 25%.

Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service

In addition to further severe budget cuts, BBC Monitoring is currently facing the loss of its Caversham Park headquarters (formerly owned by the Government) and many of its specialists who have no wish to relocate. . . . We therefore conclude that the Government must reinstate funding of the service in order to protect its skilled staff and specialist infrastructure. If the BBC is not willing to co-operate, then the Government should recognise the folly of the 2010 decision; take back ownership of Caversham Park; restore the modest central funding required and reconstitute the Monitoring Service as a state-owned Open Source Information Agency, in order to guarantee its future, once and for all.

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2016/12/212016/12/21

Angelo Codevilla: CIA (John Brennan) – Nothing There

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude

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2016/12/212020/02/23

Fixing Intelligence II: Seven Precepts (PORTAL) – Of Immediate Use to the New Acting DNI

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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Fixing Intel II: Seven Precepts (PORTAL)

Robert David STEELE Vivas

Whoever Donald Trump picks as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), that person will be a placeholder and incapable of supporting the President with decision-support across all threats, policies, and budgets absent a Presidential decision to completely re-build and re-direct the the US Intelligence Community (US IC). As now constituted the US IC is an achipelago of out-of-control dysfunctional fiefdoms whose sole purpose in life is to keep the secret money moving while providing a foundation for Deep State operations against US politicians including the President and inclusive of the active protection of criminals and terrorists as well as the leveraging of US military assets and bases overseas to run drugs, guns, money, and children.

Below should be read with my more recent open letter to the President and my new book on REINVENTING INTELLIGENCE: 30 Years in the Wilderness.

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