Ed Jewett: US Intelligence Community Admits Ineptitude with Open Source Information

 Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel “In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central …

John Petersen: Adam Gopnik Is Intelligence Intelligent? Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?

Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate. The universal law of unintended consequences rules with a special ferocity in espionage and covert action, because pervasive secrecy rules out the small, …

SPECIAL: General Mike Flynn, USA (Ret) for Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

ROBERT STEELE: There is only one person who is both totally committed to President Donald Trump and who has the brains and the balls to be the next Director of National Intelligence. His name is Mike Flynn. The time has come for him to come back into the fight. Here are the five reforms he …

Review: US Air Force Secret Space Program by Michael E. Salla

SUMMARY REVIEW Michael E. Salla, US Air Force Secret Space Program (Exopolitics, 2019). 5 Stars — Best Over-All Timeline, Best of  Related Books by Same Author Reviewed by Robert David Steele This book — the fourth in a series — is a capstone work perfectly timed to the President’s planned disclosure of the past, present, …

SPECIAL: Iran Is Almost Certainly Telling the Truth about CIA Spies

Iran Sentences “CIA Spy Ring” To Death; Publishes Video & Photos Of Americans ROBERT STEELE:  I believe the Iranians are telling the truth about having captured a number of Iranian traitors, and about having photographic and other (audio visual) evidence showing their CIA clandestine case officer handlers. Everyone forgets that two of my classmates, Jay …