The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I will not replicate all that is at www.oss.net and to a much lesser extent, www.earth-intelligence.net, but do want to recognize a handful of extraordinary individuals by isolating their especially meritorious contributiions to the long-running debate about national intelligence reform and re-invention.
C-SPAN Bill Roggio Editor Long War Journal Use of Military Drones with Statistics (VIDEO)
Memories of Bin Laden are fading, but his methods and ideology remain
Senate follows House with more questions about construction of Savannah River Site's MOX plant
The growth of social media poses a dilemma for security and law enforcement agencies. On the one hand, social media could provide a new form of intelligence – SOCMINT – that could contribute decisively to keeping the public safe. On the other, national security is dependent on public understanding and support for the measures being taken to keep us safe.
Social media challenges current conceptions about privacy, consent and personal data, and new forms of technology allow for more invisible and widespread intrusive surveillance than ever before. Furthermore, analysis of social media for intelligence purposes does not fit easily into the policy and legal frameworks that guarantee that such activity is proportionate, necessary and accountable.
This paper is the first effort to examine the ethical, legal and operational challenges involved in using social media for intelligence and insight purposes. It argues that social media should become a permanent part of the intelligence framework but that it must be based on a publicly argued, legal footing, with clarity and transparency over use, storage, purpose, regulation and accountability. #Intelligence lays out six ethical principles that can help government agencies approach these challenges and argues for major changes to the current regulatory and legal framework in the long-term, including a review of the current Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman.
Phi Beta Iota: Government intelligence is incompetent with what they have now. “SOCMINT” (for Social Media Intelligence) is as silly as claiming that Document Media Exploitation (DOMEX) is a separate discipline. Both will spawn bureaucracies and undeserved promotions along with attendant fraud, waste, and abuse. While well intentioned, this contribution is part of the problem–doing the wrong things righter–not part of the solution. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) covers both of the above, and until the government can make the leap from OSINT to M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making) it is by no means ready to muck about within Social Media. We are quite certain that social media intelligence is emergent, and it will emerge faster, better, cheaper (if not free) than any government bureaucracy could possibly fund, imagine, or execute in several decades.
Posted: 28 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT
I did an interview the Jon Evans at Techcrunch (the social technology hub) earlier this week. Here it is.
I'm spending most of my time writing and editing the Resilient Communities letter (it's free to subscribe).
As I said in the interview, the reason I started the letter was because I strongly believe that the most successful, happiest people on the planet in twenty years will be living in resilient communities.
Lots of good stuff in the RC letter — from DiY sewage systems to how to power an entire neighborhood with solar energy.
Phi Beta Iota: Creating resilient communities from the bottom up is what the federal government should be but is not facilitating. We're on our own.
See Also:
Paul and Percival Goodman, Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (Columbia University Press, 1990)
Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale (New Catalyst Books, 2007)
E. F. Schumaker, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Hartley and Marks Publishers, 2000)
UPDATED 2 November 2012 to add 450-ship Navy and other military implications of intelligence with integrity
As posted at http://cryptocomb.org/cia-
Phi Beta Iota: This may well be authentic, but it is highly suspect. A signed Presidential finding is needed for such a project, one does not undertake such initiatives without that written document, nor accept a phone call from a lesser aide as a substitute–nor should JSOG be doing anything without that written finding, certainly not on the verbal word of the CIA Director. We continue to believe that CIA created an Oswald situation, a patsy, for JSOG to kill and dump without credible forensic evidence. There is uncertainty as to whether Obama actually authorized the mission–it may have been done against his wishes as the placeholder president. We continue to believe that former Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik has it right — Bin Laden died in 2001. Our only certainty is that the truth is quite distant from the “Bin Laden Story” as told to date.
See Also:
Bin Laden Show 16: Over-Ruling the President
Bin Laden Show 08: History from 2001 Updated
Bin Laden Show: Entries 01-79 UPDATED 24 March 2012
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)
This line is completely disingenuous…..shows the lack of knowledge of the Afghan people……
Afghan Special Forces Soldier Shoots US Mentor
It follows another shooting incident earlier this week
newser, Apr 27, 2012
A member of Afghanistan's elite special forces—a group that is supposed to be rigorously vetted—shot and killed an American mentor and his translator at a US military base Wednesday, before being gunned down in turn by US soldiers, Reuters reports. Another Afghan special forces soldier was killed in the crossfire as well. The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the shooting, but according to one Afghan general it took place “after a verbal conflict.”
Phi Beta Iota: Afghanistan has been a study in legalized crime. The USA has trained, equipped, and organized both sides for the past decade, while simultaneously taking Afghanistan opium processed into #4 heroin in Pakistan (by the Pakistani military) from 0 to 95% of the world's supply. Talk about hat tricks for the financial crime families behind the two political parties in the USA for whom no insanity is inconceivable. In comparison the 200+ other illegimate “small wars,” Afghanistan is a study in “optimal” government-induced global crime.
Al Qaeda Struggles with Training, Diminishing World Influence, says TRAC
Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash
Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
Has the internet run out of ideas already?
Internet censorship listed: how does each country compare?
Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers, Innovators, Connectors)
nuclear communication system may be used for cybersecurity
Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future
State Department Reveals 21st Century NATO's Global Priorities
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus
(US) Federal Government's $10 Billion Plutonium Boondoggle
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