Robert Steele: Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence

Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence OpEdNews, 23 December 2014 In 1989, as a former spy for the CIA who became the second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps Intelligence, I ghost-wrote an article for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s.” This was the first article to distinguish between the conventional …

Reflections: Open Letter to the President — We Lack Intelligence with Integrity — Please Fire Clapper, Vickers, & Brennan

We Lack Intelligence with Integrity Mr. President: Please Fire Clapper, Vickers, & Brennan Mr. President, I hold Jim Clapper, today the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and previously the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) accountable for failing to serve the public interest all these years. I believe you should fire him, Mike Vickers the …

Review: EMERGE! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

Elza S. Maalouf, Foreword by Don Beck 5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary — Empowering, World-Changing, Rich in Substance, December 6, 2014 This book was recommended to me by Michael Ostrolenk, whom I consider one of the most inspiring transpartisan figures in America today, and endorsed by Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist and “Yoda” to many …