The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Dagger to the CIA On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life, taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran Robert Baer explains, offering chilling …
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Dot, Dot, Dot . . . March 10, 2010 In his new book The Watchers, (Penguin Press, 2010), Shane Harris chronicles what he calls “the rise of America’s surveillance state,” a process he’s been following since he was a reporter and technology editor at Government Executive from 2001 to 2005. It’s a story with all …
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Timeline: Government Under Attack By Dawn Lim and Ross Gianfortune dlim@govexec.com March 5, 2010 Thursday evening’s shootout between Pentagon police officers and a gunman apparently motivated by anti-government sentiment was the latest in a spate of attacks on federal employees and facilities and serves as a stark reminder that public servants too often find themselves …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is the month’s good news story–the silver lining in the cloud over America resulting from the loss of political integrity within both political parties. We continue to support both universal service (to bond the public and keep Congress honest), and military service as the finest possible coming of age experience. The …
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ADM McConnell has it right, although he’s understating a key aspect of the problem. Let’s postulate that we have abundant technical capability. The core of the problem, IMHO, lies with lawyers and legislators who will not permit effective utilization of the technical capability. While easier said than done, particularly in terms of domestic and international …
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Hurdles Stymie Counterterrorism Center Tuesday, February 23, 2010 By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER, The New York Times (Syndicated) WASHINGTON — The nation’s main counterterrorism center, created in response to the intelligence failures in the years before Sept. 11, is struggling because of flawed staffing and internal cultural clashes, according to a new study financed …
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