Mini-Me: Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It

Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It. by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2014 Anyone who reads the works of the late Chalmers Johnson will have an excellent understanding of the role that the U.S. national-security state, especially the vast military empire and military-industrial complex, plays in America’s foreign-policy woes. I particularly recommend his four books: …

Berto Jongman: Full Text of Edward Snowden Testimony to European Parliament

PDF (12 Pages): Introductory Statement & Answer to Questions Highlights: 00 The included links are a “best of the best” selection of media stories. 01 EU security agencies have created a bazaar allowing NSA to get it all. 02 There are many other undisclosed programs. 03 According to Snowden, at least ten specific individuals are …

Daniel Ellsberg: US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach

Q&A: Daniel Ellsberg on US surveillance The famed American whistle-blower discusses US national security, and those who expose its overreach. Sadie Luetmer Al Jazeera, 24 February 2014 Huntingdon, United States – In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The …

Review (Guest): The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

Luke Harding Ed Snowden and the American tribal fear meme, February 19, 2014 By  Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal”   This is a story about what one American saw atop the tip of an iceberg called the “American national security state.” In the end, Ed Snowden, a 29-year old, $200,00/year High School dropout turned Computer Systems …

2014 Intelligence Reform (All Others)

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Reform Under Construction – Send Nominations to robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com Updated 23 Jan 2014 14:58 E Phi Beta Iota: The current literature on intelligence reform is underdeveloped and under-specified.  An example of this under- or mis-specification can be seen in the treatment of 9/11. The dominant position that 9/11 was an intelligence failure is correct …