UPDATE: I was not happy with these, the first one got a lot of views, the other two did not, so I have removed them. Instead I recommend the below mid-1990's condensation of my 1976 thesis.
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DefDog: Department of State Screws Over Truth-Teller – Ties in to Robert Steele’s Legal Action Against DIA and DOHA
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, Intelligence (government), Military, Open Government, Resilience, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy
I am curious as to how this will play out in court if some of you come together to do a class action on State and Defense practices like this.
Diplomat Loses Top Secret Clearance for Linking to WikiLeaks
Kim Zetter
WIRED, 19 October 2011
A veteran U.S. State Department foreign service officer lost his security clearance and diplomatic passport this week while the department investigates him over linking to a WikiLeaks document on his blog and publishing a book critical of the government.
Peter Van Buren, who is 51 and has worked for the department for 23 years, had his Top Secret security clearance suspended indefinitely for what the department calls his unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations regarding “writing and speaking on matters of official concern.” This is according to a memo the State Department sent Van Buren.
The move is purely vindictive, according to Van Buren.
Amazon Page for the Truth-Teller's Book
Phi Beta Iota: The class action idea is interesting. Robert Steele is pursuing discovery to acquire all emails to and from Jim Clapper, Ron Burgess, and Tish Long about his varied efforts to secure employment within DoD, as well as discovery of all emails and documents surrounding his application for both the DISL jobs across DoD and the lesser DIA jobs [Steele kept book] that were manipulated to exclude Steele from consideration. There is no question but that DIA and DOHA are in violation while DNI (and before that USDI) were complicit, the only question is how much trouble it will be to document this, and how much can be demanded in damages above and beyond loss of $1 million in lost income–including a “by name” request for Steele to be Chief Instructor for Information Operations and Intelligence at COINSOC in Iraq a few years ago where a legal contract was received from Raytheon for $276K a year, and then withdrawn after DOHA told Raytheon no to a simple SECRET clearance without a Statement of Reasons or due process–the exchanges between Raytheon and DOHA will be the starting point for the lawsuit by Robert Steele against the US Government. It will take time, but the absence of integrity in this specific series will become a matter of legal record. If $10 million can be won–half for the legal team–that will be money earned by Steele for having persistent integrity. Integrity is now back in style–DNI, DOHA, and DIA are the last to know this–and of course the Department of State E Veritate Potens.
Robert Steele: Resetting Global Governance & Capitalism
Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, Hacking, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Officers Call, Policies, Resilience, Strategy, Threats
The next 90-180 days may well bring the creative destruction of predatory immoral capitalism and the emergence of resilient moral capitalism.
“We are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let’s say, in Greece. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable.” (George Soros, 2011)
What is collapsing is the predatory Western system of financial terrorism against governments and publics. This is an opportunity for creative destruction and the renaissance of the Greek economy as well as the restoration of integrity – trust – as a foundation for a prosperous world at peace. In the process, capitalism will morph from top-down manipulative finance to bottom-up resilient community capitalism. It will also be redirected from a focus on making toxic things for the one billion rich to making useful lasting things for the five billion poor whose annual income is four times that of the one billion rich, four trillion dollars a year. Those governments that adapt to reality-based hybrid collaborative resilience will prosper–those that persist in trying to micro-manage that which they do not understand and those whom they cannot control, will fail.
Below are two current articles and two of the most popular book reviews on this web site, as well as an updated Reflections on Integrity.
The real Greek economy: owners, rentiers and opportunists
Aristos Doxiadis, OpenEconomy, 23 September 2010
California and Bust
Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, November 2011
Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Review: The Genius of the Beast–A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED
See Also:
Steven Howard Johnson: Reflections on OSINT
Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Budgets & Funding, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Hacking, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Resilience, Strategy, Threats
Phi Beta Iota: Mr. Johnson is the author of Integrity at Scale, free online, whose many ideas are being integrated into the vision for a Smart Nation Act and the hub of the Smart Nation, an Open Source Agency and global Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) network of networks. He is a party to the on-going push to establish the Open Source Agency and create a more competent and ethical America.
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As I look at the Open Source idea, I find myself experiencing a fair amount of dissonance between a methodological vision of open source intelligence, at one level, and at a very different level, an aspirational vision that sees it as a way of disinfecting a misguided and corrupt set of bureaucracies.
One mission is potentially endorsable by the powers-that-be. The second mission is not. Ask people to endorse both and it isn’t likely that either will move forward. If corruption prevention is to be the mission, the open source agency will have to find a home outside of government. If transparency of intelligence is the mission, then perhaps it can find a home inside government.
My second source of dissonance has to do with design and scale. Open source intelligence is potentially as vast as all the server farms Google will ever own. How does a relatively modest site, squeezed in between State and Watergate, ever acquire the heft to handle the challenge? The scope of the mission and the scope of the agency seem out of sync with the scope of the real estate footprint.
Continue reading “Steven Howard Johnson: Reflections on OSINT”
Reference: Smart Nation Act (Simplified) 2011
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Congressional Research Service, Ethics, General Accountability Office, Hill Letters & Testimony, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Key Players, Legislation, Memoranda, Methods & Process, Mobile, Office of Management and Budget, Officers Call, Open Government, Policies, Policy, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Real Time, Reform, Research resources, Resilience, Serious Games, Standards, Strategy, Technologies, Threats
Reference: Intelligence Cooperation in Multinational International Peace Operations
Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Key Players, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time, Resilience, Strategy, Threats
ABSTRACT
Intelligence is a tool for power and traditionally very sensitive by nature. Well-established and bureaucratic resistance, international positioning and working methods hamper cooperation concerning intelligence. In a multifunctional and multinational peace operation a lot of informal structures are intertwined with formal structures.
EXTRACT
In order to create a picture of the widest spectrum in a multifunctional mission cooperation is necessary among military, police, Governmental- and International organisations and NGO`s. Intelligence services need to communicate with each other, and multi-lateral agreements need to be established to governing the collection, analysis and sharing of intelligence.
See Also:
2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future
2004 4 Dec Stockholm Peacekeeping Intelligence Trip Report
Books: Intelligence for Peace (PKI Book Two) Finalizing
Worth a Look: First Ever UN Joint Military Analysis Centre Course (October 2009)
John Robb: State Failure, Deep Resistance, Open War
Blog Wisdom, Resilience
Anonymous declares war on Facebook.
For those of you interested in how global guerrilla warfare theory is being applied in the wild, here's a book for you: Deep Green Resistance (by Derrick Jenson, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith). Here's a little on their ecowarfare strategy from their website, and some more on how they use open source warfare and systems disruption. At this point, nearly every meaningful insurgency in the world is using OSW (open source warfare). From some of the folks behind the London riots to al Qaeda's new “Open Source Jihad” to Lulzsec/etc. Fortunately for these groups, the US military and their consultants are mired in 20th Century counter-insurgency (COIN), fighting farmers/herders in global backwaters.
Vinay Gupta has put up 4.3 Gb of data/presentations/thinking on surviving state failure. Some good STAR TIDES stuff in there.
Ancestral Health Conference. Coincidentally, getting healthy is completely in alignment with resilience.
PeoplePower. “An open-source platform for learning about nonviolent regime change.”
