Berto Jongman: Brennan Gores CIA
The CIA Director Can’t See the Ground from the Ivory Tower (Arkin in Gawker) The CIA gets a makeover (Ignatius in WashPost) The truth about that CIA makeover (Schmitt in Fox News)
Steven Aftergood: CIA Torture Report – Oversight, But No Remedies Yet — With Strong PBI Comment
CIA Torture Report: Oversight, But No Remedies Yet The release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program is, among other things, an epic act of record preservation. Numerous CIA records that might not have been disclosed for decades, or ever, were rescued from oblivion by the Senate …
ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces
My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since …
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1997 Reference: CIA’s Intelligence Sharing With Congress + RECAP
EXTRACT: From my point of view, the academic community in some ways is even more remiss [than the media]. During my brief fledgling career as a novice academic, I have come to the conclusion that most university-level courses on the American foreign policy process are absolutely mute on this subject [intelligence sharing with Congress, and …
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Berto Jongman: The Costs of War — Human Costs, Economic Costss, Social + Political Costs with Alternatives and Recommendations
Over 350,000 Killed by Violence, $4.4 Trillion Spent and Obligated The wars begun in 2001 have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well. Each additional month and year of war adds to that toll. Moreover, the human costs of these conflicts will …
Berto Jongman: Drone Report — No Thinking, Too Much Secrecy, War Without End …
Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report Mark Mazzetti New York Times, 26 June 2014 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that …
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Owl: Micro Drones for Assassination – A New Equalizer Between 1% and 99%?
The New Equalizer – A Genuine Game Changer: Kamikaze Assassination Micro Drones The revolver was the great equalizer of the 19th and 20th centuries between individuals unequal in power or size, and perhaps, in the light of John Robb’s writings, guns of various kinds have been a great equalizer between guerilla fighters and much larger …
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