Berto Jongman: IC Funding Chart (CBJB Snowden to Post) with Seven Comments
The below chart is quite interesting at multiple levels. Specific Phi Beta Iota comments are provided below the fold.
Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data
Kevjn Lim is an independent writer and Middle East foreign policy analyst at Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency. In the latter half of 2013, he was Turkey representative for the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), covering the Syrian crisis in the northern governorates and Turkey. From 2007-2011, he served as delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …
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Reflections: Appraisal of Analytic Foundations – Email Provided, Feedback Solicited – UPDATED
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Analysis I was thinking this morning about how little has changed since I was a founding member of the Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG) and also a member of the Information Handling Committee (IHC) for the US secret world (late 1980’s early 1990’s). I note in passing my continued dismay …
Review: Beyond Conflict – 20 Years of Putting Experience to Work for Peace
5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable, Substantive, Inspiring and a Bargain, February 24, 2014 I love this book. I received it as a gift and it is NOT “just a coffee table book.” This is a serious book, of very high quality in terms of both content and quality of construction. The photographs are superb, …
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Reference: Draft Smart Nation Act of 2014
DOC (1 Page): Draft Smart Nation Act of 2014 Proposed Legislation: The Smart Nation Act of 2014 • Within the Department of State, expands the capabilities for Open Government, Citizen Engagement, Participatory Budgeting, Global Engagement and Whole of Government planning, programming, and budgeting, by providing the Secretary of State with oversight authority of the Open …
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Reflections: Policy Makers and Social Science — Distant & Lacking Value-Added Decision-Support
Carnegie and the Stimson Center are exploring the distant and largely dysfunctional relationship between policy makers and the social sciences. This is an important topic that could usefully be expanded to explore the similar distance between government and the other information tribes.* Below are two seminal references in this area. Carnegie Stimson National Security Programs …
YALE The Politic Interviews Robert Steele
Open Source everything: A Spy Comes Clean An interview with former CIA Clandestine Services Case Officer Robert Steele. By Kris Todi Robert Steele is a former Marine Corps infantry officer, former spy, and long-time champion of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Somewhere in there he also became an honorary hacker and the #1 Amazon reviewer for …
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