The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …
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ANNUAL SECRECY COSTS NOW EXCEED $10 BILLION The rise in national security secrecy in the first full year of the Obama Administration was matched by a sharp increase in the financial costs of the classification system, according to a new report to the President (pdf). The estimated costs of the national security classification system grew …
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THE COSTS OF WAR, AND MORE FROM CRS As of March 2011, Congress had approved a total of more than $1.2 trillion dollars for costs associated with the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other post-9/11 “war on terror” operations, the Congressional Research Service said in its most recent update on the subject. See “The Cost …
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THE DEBT LIMIT: HISTORY AND RECENT INCREASES A statutory limit on total federal debt has been in place since 1917. In the past decade, Congress has voted to raise the debt limit ten times and it will now have to do so once again. The history of the debt limit and its current implications were …
The power of Open Source…….. Secret Space Plane Can’t Hide From Amateur Sleuths Noah Shachtman, March 30, 2011 WIRED The U.S. military likes to be a little sneaky with its robotic space planes. Unlike typical spacecraft, these vehicles can shift their orbits, frustrating the global network of skywatchers who keep track of just about every …
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IS THE SECRECY SYSTEM AN AUTONOMOUS ENTITY? Does the secrecy system function according to its own autonomous principles? Is it beyond the rule of law and outside of presidential control?
P.J. CROWLEY AND THE LIMITS OF OPENNESS State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned yesterday facing an Obama Administration backlash against his remarks declaring the treatment of suspected leaker Pfc. Bradley E. Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” The conditions of Private Manning’s detention became the subject of controversy when his lawyer complained that Manning was …
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