The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
DEA Secretly OKs Killer Quantities of Oxy and Morphine
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The Fog of Intelligence (Or How to Be Eternally “Caught Off Guard” in the Greater Middle East)
1,500. That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) playing fast and loose with intelligence reports to give their air war against ISIS an unjustified sheen of success: “CENTCOM’s mammoth intelligence operation, with some 1,500 civilian, military, and contract analysts, is housed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, in a bay front building that has the look of a sterile government facility posing as a Spanish hacienda.”
INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING
In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel report was finally declassified and released this week.
EXTRACT:
“Inadequate information technology runs through both the Fort Hood and the NW Flight 253 narratives, particularly the inability of IT systems to help analysts locate relevant reporting in a sea of fragmentary data or to correct for seemingly minor human errors.”
CIA goes live with new cyber directorate, massive internal reorganization
The DDI’s formation implies that the CIA is increasingly bent on securing 21st century relevance on the overall American spying landscape, where other agencies — namely the cyber- and electronic-surveillance-focused National Security Agency (NSA) — have emerged as dominant shapers of U.S. intelligence policy.
How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler
“Totrov Rules” and comment below the line.
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Analysts Said to Provide Evidence of Distorted Reports on ISIS
EXTRACT
“The senior intelligence officers are flipping everything on its head,” said one government intelligence analyst, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The analyst said that the complaints involve the highest-ranking officials in Centcom’s intelligence unit, run by Army Maj. Gen. Steven R. Grove.
Ineffective supervisors, lack of language and other expertise, 10 seconds per cable, at war with NSA and FBI — the comatose CIA?
‘Blind Spots and Inefficiencies': The CIA Before and After 9/11
“I think that America confuses resources with capabilities, and we say that more is better, though that's not true — better is better,” Carle said. “But better requires a conceptual shift, and right now, we're plugging holes while the foundation is collapsing.”
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