Journal: Markle Foundation Focuses on Lack of Information–We Focus on Lack of Integrity

Nation At Risk: Policy Makers Need Better Information to Protect the Country For all the nation has invested in national security in the last several years, we remain vulnerable to terrorist attack and emerging national security threats because we have not adequately improved our ability to know what we know about these threats. Phi Beta …

Journal: Ralph Peters on Stifling of General McChrystal

O’s Afghan woes White House stifles general September 3, 2009 The classified status report from Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal was censored by the White House before its submission. As a result, it’s all bun and no burger. According to multiple (angry) sources, McChrystal — our top soldier on the ground — intended to ask …

Journal: Chicago-Style Partisan Corruption & Industrial-Era Organization Killing the USA

The Future of Tech August 27, 2009, 5:00PM EST By Adrian Slywotzky Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?: How basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can’t, because there isn’t one. And that’s the problem. Decline …

Journal: Loch Johnson on It’s Never a Quick Fix at the CIA

Professor Loch Johnson is one of two people who have served on both the Church Committee and the Aspin-Brown Commission.  The other is Britt Snider, Esquire. Today he examines the lack of integrity on the Hill, or totthless, inattentive oversight.  He does not address two factors that we comment on below the fold: 1.  There …