The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Visiting Professor and was First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, …
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Fact-Checking the CIA’s Fact-Check on ‘Zero Dark Thirty By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Dec 28, 2012 “The CIA is a lot different than Hollywood portrays it to be,” reads an official explainer issued today by the Central Intelligence Agency — a thinly veiled attempt to continue debunking Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Oscar favorite that …
Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider’s assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies. The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and the rise of social media is evidence of how governments and …
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Open Season on CIA? – Are The Days of Living Immunity Instead of Cover Over? I had occasion to reflect today on the past twenty years, recollecting how easily in 1992 a new path could have been taken, one that reconnected the US intelligence community to “ground truth” using open sources and methods, as well …
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Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project as part of the university’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). Josh and …
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My experience with GCHQ was that they were able to conduct better processing and anaysis than NSA at consideribly less cost. I remember one particularly difficult puzzle that I was trying to work out using the latest contactor designed programs (vapor ware) and getting nowhere. An analyst (and friend) at GCHQ managed to solve the puzzle using the …
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‘Google Effect’ Raised Bar for Spies to ‘Produce Secret Intelligence’: Ex-UK Intelligence Chief The rise of the web and Google means that spies in the UK need to work really hard to produce genuinely secret intelligence, former director of the country’s intelligence agency has said. Former chief of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Sir David …
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