The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert David Steele is the founding editor of Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog (“The truth at any cost lowers all other costs.”). He curates over 80 regular contributors, many using an avatar because they are still serving in official capacities. A former Marine Corps infantry officer, CIA spy, and second ranking civilian in Marine …
Arno Reuser is one of the handful of multinational kindred spirits who created the international Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement that kicked off in 1992 and is now morphing into Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2). When InterNET is InterNOT (2008) Virtual Open Source Agency (2006) Librarian Tradecraft (2003)
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 …
Beyond Six Stars–a Manifesto for Liberty September 5, 2009 John Taylor Gatto This book shocked me, and while I am not easily shocked, in shocking me made me realize how even my own radical outlook (as Howard Zinn notes, a radical is someone who no longer believes government is part of the solution) has come …
The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC’s Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer . . . . . . . One of these polls was released Aug. 9 by an outfit called Glevum Associates, which appears from its website to be a military contractor engaged in producing psychological operations data as part of …
Continue reading “Journal: Human Terrain Team (HTT) Project Now Dabbling in Propaganda”
PBI Comment: Tip of the hat to both the New York Times and the U.S. Army for this story. The dirty little secret behind this may be that much of Army doctrine has been written by contractors who know little, supervised by Training Officers far removed from the Mission Area being supported. This has been …
Continue reading “Journal: Care to Write Army Doctrine? With ID, Log On”
Congress tasked the Department of Defense with ten specific OSINT-related tasks that to the best of our knowledge have never been acknowledged nor completed by DoD. Highlights of the missing ten tasks: 1) A plan for providing funds 2) A description of management now and as it could be improved 3) A description of tools, …
Continue reading “Worth a Look: Public Law 109-163 dated 6 January 2006”
