The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CIA gets a free pass for dereliction on multiple fronts. Noteworthy: Neither State nor Africa Command had any idea of the size and scope of the CIA arms smuggling operation based in Benghazi. Also noteworthy that NSA has nothing at all on the attack in the days leading up to it or during the attack. …
Herewith is a stunning series of reports by Gareth Porter, one of the very best investigative journalists in America. Not only does he show how King David created the myth of his success and became naked in the process, he puts the failures of the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan into a definitive perspective. But …
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TIME BATTLE BLOG: MILITARY SPENDING Business As Usual Inside Obama’s Pentagon By Chuck Spinney, Time.com, Dec. 06, 2012 Winslow Wheeler’s three-part series on the Navy that wrapped up on Battleland Wednesday shows that the sea service is up to its old tricks. To wit, it is impregnating President Obama’s five-year defense program by front-loading today’s …
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Two things seem clear to me: the Pentagon budget is going down, and pretty much no one in Washington wants to impose the three fundamental reforms needed to enable DOD to prosper in an era of lower budgets. I explain my point of view in a new article in Foreign Policy and below. EXTRACT: They are …
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Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon By Michael D. Ostrolenk The American Conservative • October 24, 2012 Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, famously quipped that he didn’t want to do away with government, merely “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” He is best known …
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A few days old, but a good effort by a citizen. Benghazi: A Reader Assesses the Evidence [Updated] John Hinderaker in Benghazigate PowerLine, Posted on October 27, 2012 A reader, relying on publicly available information, has reconstructed what we know and can infer about what happened in Benghazi. I haven’t tried to verify all of …
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Free Software in Use at Pentagon Apache Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution OpenOffice.org OpenSSH OpenSSL bind Postfix gcc – GNAT perl, Python, PHP Samba Mailman MySQL and PostgreSQL GIMP MediaWiki More specifically, they use the following open source software for specific military purposes: FalconView – PC-based mapping application Open Source Software for Imagery & Mapping …
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