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There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says

WIRED, May 25, 2011

You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard.

Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far broader legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that the government keeps to itself — entirely in secret. Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a “dragnet” for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.

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Phi Beta Iota: Further to our comment on Part I, we strongly believe the time has come to discontinue funding for the US Intelligence Community as a whole, beginning with the National Security Agency (NSA), which is in our view the most mis-managed and corrupt (as well as grotesquely expensive for lack of any reasonable return) part of the US Government. The fact that they are abusive of the Constitution and devoid of any common sense at all is the other half of their crime against humanity. An honest President actually interested in the public interest would create an Open Source Agency, and then on the basis of sound decision-support shareable with the public and Congress, cut the secret world as well as the defense and homeland security worlds by 20% each year for each of five years, restoring 10% each year to new initiatives that pass all common sense tests for need, relevance, and affordability. All it takes is INTEGRITY.

2011/05/242011/05/24

Israeli Covert Action to Equate China to Nazis

IO Impotency

This would be pretty sick and silly if it were not so obvious. A desperate ignorant attempt to inflate China into “Evil Empire.”

Hitler and the Chinese Internet generation

By Richard Komaiko

Asia Times, 25 May 2011

EXTRACT:

There is a growing trend in the Chinese blogosphere to vocalize praises and expressions of support for Hitler.

Phi Beta Iota: Richard Komaiko is a known Jewish writer. It would appear he can be relied upon to “place” Israeli cover action (media influence) themes, however undocumented or insane. We normally respect Asia Times, but this is irresponsible, unethical and not at all credible. The revolution is being made by youth, they are transformative without regard to ideology, religion, or nationality.

In Passing:

What’s Up With the Jews? NYT 23 May 2011, By STANLEY FISH

2011/05/242011/05/24

Document Exploitation It’s Own Discipline?

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Intelligence (government), IO Impotency, Methods & Process, Military

Secrecy News

DOCUMENT EXPLOITATION AS A NEW INTELLIGENCE DISCIPLINE

A recent article in the Army's Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin argued that Document and Media Exploitation, or DOMEX — which refers to the analysis of captured enemy documents — should be recognized and designated as an independent intelligence discipline.

“Without question, our DOMEX capabilities have evolved into an increasingly specialized full-time mission that requires a professional force, advanced automation and communications support, analytical rigor, expert translators, and proper discipline to process valuable information into intelligence,” wrote Col. Joseph M. Cox.

“The true significance of DOMEX lies in the fact that terrorists, criminal, and other adversaries never expected their material to be captured,” Col. Cox wrote. “The intelligence produced from exploitation is not marked with deception, exaggeration, and misdirection that routinely appear during live questioning of suspects.”

See “DOMEX: The Birth of a New Intelligence Discipline” which appeared in the April-June 2010 issue (large pdf) of Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, pp. 22-32.

The last six issues of Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, the U.S. Army's quarterly journal of intelligence policy and practice, are newly available through the Federation of American Scientists website.

Although the Bulletin is unclassified and approved for public release, the Army has opted not to make it publicly available online. Instead, it was released under the Freedom of Information Act upon request from FAS . The latest issues address topics such as HUMINT Training, Cross-Cultural Competence, and Intelligence in Full-Spectrum Operations.

Not all of the articles in the Bulletin are of broad interest or of significant originality. But many of them are informative and reflective of current issues in Army intelligence.

An Intelligence Community Directive (ICD 302) on “Document and Media Exploitation” (pdf) was issued by the Director of National Intelligence on July 6, 2007.

Phi Beta Iota: This is as foolish as the Defense Science Board saying we need an intelligence czar for intelligence support to counter-insurgency. The US Intelligence Community is not being managed, it is being administered to channel funds to corporations while doing virtually nothing at all for the public interest. This is nothing more than an excuse to create yet another executive position. We are quite sure that DIA is thinking about how to make wiping your ass its own discipline, with a new Senior Intelligence Service position to oversee ass-wiping through-out DoD. Somewhat counter-intuitively, that might actually become the only really focused and useful position in the US IC senior executive hierarchy.

2011/05/232011/05/23

Wall Street Journal On Bin Laden Raid Planning

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military

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More that should never have been written

Wall Street Journal
May 23, 2011
Pg. 1

Spy, Military Ties Aided Bin Laden Raid

By Siobhan Gorman and Julian E. Barnes

In January, the chief of the military's elite special-operations troops accepted an unusual invitation to visit Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. There, Adm. William McRaven was shown, for the first time, photos and maps indicating the whereabouts of the world's most wanted man.

Adm. McRaven—one of the first military officers to be brought into the CIA's latest hunt for Osama bin Laden—offered a blunt assessment: Taking bin Laden's compound would be reasonably straightforward. Dealing with Pakistan would be hard.

A Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the mission planning shows that this meeting helped define a profound new strategy in the U.S. war on terror, namely the use of secret, unilateral missions powered by a militarized spy operation. The strategy reflects newfound trust between two traditionally wary groups: America's spies, and its troops.

The bin Laden strike was the strategy's “proof of concept,” says one U.S. official.

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2011/05/222011/05/22

Carterizing Obama–Netanyhu Tells Him Off…

05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

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This important essay by Robert Parry contextualizes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's arrogant stuffing of President Obama, which took place after Obama gave a weak-kneed speech on the Middle East. If Parry is right, a really dirty game is in the offing.

And look at the banality of language that provoked Netanhahu: Obama's speech purported to analyze the implications of the Arab Revolt with an analysis that was viewed as being weak, inept, and self centered by some Arabs (e.g., see this cogent analysis of his language) as well as his goals for the pursuit in the Arab-Israeli peace process: namely a return to Israel's 1967 borders, with some land swaps, in return for the security of a Jewish state within these borders (a choice of language that may have been an attempt to appease Netanyahu*).

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*Mr. Obama's language was somewhat ambiguous when he said the primary Israeli-related goal of the peace process was to establish conditions for Israel as a Jewish state
and the homeland for the Jewish people.” But it does raise a question of whether he is acceding to the sectarian interpretation of a Jewish democracy demanded by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made recognition of Israel as aJewish nation-state a prerequisite for any final agreement with the Palestinians. This kind of sectarian definition in a democracy has unknowable ramifications for the non-Jewish minority making up 20% of Israel's citizens. For a discussion of this issue, see Isabel Kirshner, “Some Question the Existence of Israel as a Jewish State,” New York Times, 24 October 2010.

Netanyahu Sets Limits for Obama

This public rebuke raises questions about whether Netanyahu will now try to sink Obama’s reelection the way earlier Likud leaders undermined President Jimmy Carter

by Robert Parry, Consortium News, May 21, 2011

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Oval Office rebuke of U.S. President Barack Obama – and the Republicans’ immediate attempt to exploit the dispute to peel away Jewish voters – suggest that American politics may be in for a replay of Campaign 1980.

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2011/05/212011/05/21

Say What?: Iran Helped Plan 9/11, Train Attackers

05 Iran, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

Former Iranian Intelligence Officer Says Iran Helped Plan 9/11 Attacks

Julie Kent

Cleveland Leader, 05/20/2011

A former Iranian intelligence official who defected has claimed that Iran helped to plot the September 11 attacks, according to court papers filed on Thursday in a victims' lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court against the Tehran government.

Phi Beta Iota: Prior information, yes. Over 9 countries had prior information and warned the US via official channels prior to 9/11, but Dick Cheney had his information from the source (Pakistan) and used it to plan the counter-terrorism exercise that allowed him to let it happen as planned. To suggest that Iran, a Shi'ite country at absolute war with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (Sunni countries, one with the nuclear bomb thanks to Zbigniew Brzezinski), was behind the 9/11 attacks in any way is to raise the spectre of another 935 documented lies being formulated within the US Government to justify a direct attack on Iran. Isn't one three trillion dollar “liar's war” enough?

2011/05/212011/05/21

Defense Science Board: Need Another Intel Czar

IO Impotency

Unbelievable–either these guys have no clue what happened in the past, or they're all going senile and repeating history. This is 1992 all over again–remember the LIC Intelligence Working Group that never was?

DefenseAlert

DOD Advisory Panel Calls For Creation Of National Intel Manager For COIN Ops

Posted on InsideDefense.com: May 20, 2011

A new “national intelligence manager” for counterinsurgency operations is needed to improve U.S. military and civilian efforts in population centers, according to a Defense Science Board task force.

In a just-released report, the task force calls on defense and intelligence officials to lessen the current focus on technical intelligence collection from airborne sensors and bolster human intelligence operations as well as improve the exploitation of open-source information.

The report — prepared by the Task Force on Defense Intelligence-Counterinsurgency (COIN) Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations — also warns that sensor-packed unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne ISR assets are generating a “deluge” of data, precipitating a crisis in processing, exploitation and dissemination.

DSB Report (February 2011)

Phi Beta Iota: World-class foolishness. Doing the wrong thing righter. It does not work for counter-terrorism or force protection or anything else for the simple reason that the entire US intelligence system is in grid-lock. Not managed, not smart, not affordable, not processed, the list is long. Until the US Government restores its integrity and intelligence–to include not just Whole of Government integrity & intelligence, but eight-tribes and M4IS2 integrity and intelligence, this is just one more fiefdom, one more chain of useless over-paid over-promoted bureaucrats with zero value. 1992 deja vu indeed.

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