The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is not dead–it just does not exist within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Department of Defense (DoD). “Butts in Seats,” bureaucracy, political flag officers with no sense of responsibility for the commonwealth, this is our lot today. Rule 1: HUMINT is not an organization. It is a state of mind …
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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Misery With Plenty of Company By BOB HERBERT Published: January 7, 2011 Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich, who flourish no matter what is going on with the economy in …
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Phi Beta Iota: The shooting of an elected official, a judge, and multiple others in Arizona is a strong signal. It was anticipated by the book TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution, a work of fiction that anticipated a nation-wide spree of attacks on elected politicians now known not to represent the public …
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More jerks advocating their wares….I have taught since the mid 1990’s that the greatest threat to computer security was the insider. On one hand He/She has access and only need motivation to become hostile. On the other hand, slovenly attitudes allow others, without access but motivation, to take advantage of the insider…..now all of a …
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Phi Beta Iota: The author, Michael O’Hanlon, remains one of our most respected commentators on defense, and his suggestions within this document are entirely reasonable. However, he does not go far enough. A 10% reduction of a military-industrial complex budget that has nearly tripled in 30 years is not serious, nor is there innovation in …
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Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, January 21, 2010 So much for that…. Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks By Noah Shachtman, Wired, December 9, 2010 | 7:02 …
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As first used in a briefing to the National Security Agency conference in Las Vegas, 9 January 2002. 2002 The New Craft of Intelligence–What Should the T Be Doing to the I in IT? See Also: Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)
