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PBI Comment: Tip of the hat to both the New York Times and the U.S. Army for this story. The dirty little secret behind this may be that much of Army doctrine has been written by contractors who know little, supervised by Training Officers far removed from the Mission Area being supported. This has been particularly troubling in the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) arena.

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Join the Army, where you can edit all that you can edit.

In July, in a sharp break from tradition, the Army began encouraging its personnel — from the privates to the generals — to go online and collaboratively rewrite seven of the field manuals that give instructions on all aspects of Army life.

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2009/08/142009/08/14

Journal: U.S. re-embraces relationship with U.N.

Government, Policies, Threats

UNITED NATIONS | Declaring “the United States is back,” the Obama administration pledged Wednesday to turn more frequently to the United Nations and work with the world body on the basis of decency and mutual respect, rather than condescension and contempt.

Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment:

This is not really sincere. It is lip-service for four reasons:

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2009/08/132011/10/22

Journal: Call for Signatures in Support of Open Primaries

Electoral Reform USA, Reform

There are at least four movements underway to destroy the two-party tyranny and restore the integrity of the U.S. electoral process and with it the integrity of the U.S. Government.

Below is one such movement. Others include the movement for Free and Open Elections, the movement to Unify Independents, and the movement to audit the Federal Reserve and its its role as a front for Wall Street and particularly Goldman Sachs whose looting the U.S. Treasury of future funds has taken bank robbery to new heights. Phi Beta Iota appeals to all those who visit this site and who care about the public interest to support Independent.org with their signature. One signature, one vote, one Nation under God. We gave it up, let's get it back. Please click to read and repsond to a simple request for your signature.

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2009/08/132009/08/14

Worth a Look: Public Law 109-163 dated 6 January 2006

Government, Legislation, Military, Policy, Reform, Strategy

Congress tasked the Department of Defense with ten specific OSINT-related tasks that to the best of our knowledge have never been acknowledged nor completed by DoD.

Highlights of the missing ten tasks:

1) A plan for providing funds

2) A description of management now and as it could be improved

3) A description of tools, systems, centers, organizational entities amd procedures

4) A description of proven tradecraft including operational security

5) A description of OSINT fusion with other disciplines

6) A description of a training plan and guidance for DoD intelligence personnel

7) A plan to incorporate oversight of OSINT

8] A plan to incorporate the OSINT specialty int oall existing DoD personnel systems;

9) Aplan to utilize reserve personnel; and

10) A plan for the use of the Open Source Information System (OSIS).

2009/08/132009/08/15

Journal: High-Fat Diet May Make You Stupid and Lazy

Communities of Practice, Methods & Process

LiveScience.com livescience Staff

livescience.com – Wed Aug 12, 3:03 pm ET

By now, we've all heard that high-fat diets are bad for our health in the long run. But what about the short-term?

A new study on rats finds that 10 days of eating a high-fat diet caused short-term memory loss and made exercise difficult. While the finding may not seem a big surprise, the researcher say it might suggest that high-fat diets make humans lazy and stupid.

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2009/08/122009/08/12

Journal: An Ethical Code for Intelligence Officers

Ethics

Bruce Schneir

Tip of the Hat to Bruce Schneier

August 11, 2009

An Ethical Code for Intelligence Officers

August's Communications of the ACM has an interesting article: “An Ethics Code for U.S. Intelligence Officers,” by former NSAers Brian Snow and Clint Brooks. The article is behind a paywall, but here's the code:

Draft Statement of Ethics for the Intelligence Community

Preamble: Intelligence work may present exceptional or unusual ethical dilemmas beyond those of ordinary life. Ethical thinking and review should be a part of our day to day efforts; it can protect our nation's and our agency’s integrity, improve the chances of mission success, protect us from the consequences of bad choices, and preserve our alliances. Therefore, we adhere to the following standards of professional ethics and behavior:

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2009/08/112009/08/11

Worth a Look: The Sunlight Foundation & Labs

Worth A Look

Sunlight for Transparency

Best of Disinfectants…

The Sunlight Foundation is committed to helping citizens, bloggers and journalists be their own best watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitizing new information, and by creating new tools and Web sites to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency.

The Sunlight Foundation is also supporting a new effort, the Sunlight Lab,which seeks to make more government information available to the public in usable form.

Both of the key leaders at the Sunlight Foundation are being added to our Who's Who.

Andrew Raiej is a force behind Personal Diplomacy

Micah Sifry wrote Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America, which the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction said was “Beyond Five Stars–a Foundation Stone for Third Party Bid”

Bruce Schneir

Tip of the Hat to Bruce Schneier

August 11, 2009

An Ethical Code for Intelligence Officers

Sunlight for Transparency Best of Disinfectants…

Sunlight for Transparency

Best of Disinfectants…