The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Integrated Intelligence Key To Combating Dynamic Threats
The authors are James Clapper (DNI) and Marcel Lettre (USDI).
Back to basics: Army dials up traditional soldiering once again
Capt. Ronald Fletcher has met an officer candidate who couldn’t find north on a compass, a sergeant who couldn’t complete an inventory of equipment, and “far too many soldiers who couldn’t fire a weapon straight, let alone understand how the weapon functions.”
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Today, more than 2,700 pieces of equipment in a brigade combat team run off GPS or satellite communications. . . . But what happens if those systems fail? Or if the enemy launches an invasive and effective cyber or electronic warfare attack? Could you find your way to your forward operating base with just a map and a compass? Could you communicate with your squad if your radios stop working? How about effectively and lethally running your weapon systems or combat vehicles?
Flush With Cash; Running on Empty (V)
Message of the 2016 Election: Goodbye Checks and Balances for Controlling Defense Spending
Phi Beta Iota: Neither Trump nor Clinton have a clue — they are all mouth and no brain — or ethics — on the subject of national defense. Chuck, and the National Interest article he points to, are the real deal.
CIA weapons for Syrian rebels sold on Jordan's black market
Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials. FBI officials believe some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman.
Kudos to Anonymous who sent this along, and a five-star salute to GetOffTheBS and Attorney/Investigative Journalist Brenda Corpian, for breaking this story that connects the wanna-be assassin of Donald Trump with Mateen and Howell. In the fine print, note that Howell says there were eight groups or over 100 people being trained in the same camp, several being trained as snipers.
Failed Trump Assassin Michael Sandford Trained With Omar Mateen
YouTube Audio (53:45): Charles Ortel: Clinton Foundation Largest Charity Fraud Ever Attempted
“Trustees guilty of gross negligence and willful misconduct…”
“Operated illegally in many countries for years…”
“Fourteen billion dollars donated for Haiti has vanished…”
“The information in [her] emails is the property of the US Government…of We the People…”
Huge FBI facial recognition database flawed: GAO audit
The FBI's facial recognition database of 411 million photos includes some 30 million criminal mugshots, drivers' license pictures from 16 US states, 140 million images from visa applications by foreign nationals and 6.7 million photos of individuals detained by US forces abroad, but lacks adequate safeguards for accuracy and privacy protection, a congressional audit shows. Alvaro Bedoya, who heads the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University's law school, called the report “startling,” saying it revealed that facial recognition is being used on a much larger scale than had been disclosed.
