Mini-Me: BENGHAZI – Hillary Lied, CIA Complied?

Huh? Did CIA official suppress Benghazi narrative? Accounts raise new questions By Catherine Herridge FoxNews.com, 14 February 2014 New information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own people in Libya that it …

Marcus Aurelius: Defense Clandestine Service Here to Stay? Dubious in All Respects – And Still No Plumbing

Sigh. Concur with the comments and would add Sumner Shapiro’s own finding on the 80-20 rule. Flynn seems to be going the mini-me route, replicating CIA’s long-standing failure. Wasted effort and money — and still no focus on the plumbing. Analysis: Defense Clandestine Service Is Here To Stay WASHINGTON — Senior US officials and lawmakers …

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping in Areas of Limited Statehood

Crisis Mapping in Areas of Limited Statehood I had the great pleasure of contributing a chapter to this new book recently published by Oxford University Press: Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood. My chapter addresses the application of crisis mapping to areas of limited statehood, drawing both on theory …

Event: 27-29 JUN 14 RENSSELAER Generative Justice: Value From the Bottom Up

Generative Justice: Value from the Bottom-up  A conference at RPI, June 27-29 2014 Social problems are often addressed through the top-down forms of “distributive justice”: intervention from government agencies and regulations for example. But science and technology innovations have opened new possibilities for “generative justice”: bottom-up networks that strive for a more equitable and sustainable …

David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

Steele on Reality, Intelligence, Ethics, & Solutions [Yale, 6 February 2014]

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Yale-6 On Thursday 6 February 2014 from 1800-1930, Robert Steele will address a group of undergraduates convened by Yale Politic. The event is free, open to the public without RSVP required, and the media has been invited. Yale University, Branford College Trumbull Room 74 High Street New Haven, CT 06511 Downloadable PPT (30 …