The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PENTAGON SEEKS “COORDINATION” OF MEDIA ACTIVITIES The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials. Secrecy News Comment: As a practical matter, the degree of control over DoD contacts with the media sought by the Pentagon may be …
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(accountable)… GAO ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE IN DISPUTE The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers, was discussed in the Washington Post’s Top …
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Secrecy News ** DNI ADVISORS FAVOR NON-COERCIVE “INTELLIGENCE INTERVIEWING” ** RARE EARTH ELEMENTS: THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN (CRS) ** THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMBS Extract on Torture: The ISB study notably dissected the “ticking time bomb” scenario that is often portrayed in television thrillers (and which has “captured the public imagination”). The authors patiently explained …
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Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? ** WIKILEAKS: GIVING LEAKS A BAD NAME ** HUGE COMMERCIAL SAT IMAGERY CONTRACTS AWARDED ** ODNI ADVISORS ON BIO SCIENCES KEEP LOW PROFILE ** REVIEWS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN US REMAIN “OBSCURE” WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee …
** GAO ACCESS TO INTEL OBSTRUCTED BY 1988 OLC OPINION ** ETHICS OFFICE PUTS LIMITS ON CIA LOBBYING (2006) ** REPORT SEES SUCCESSES AND GAPS IN INFO SHARING Secrecy News Home (each item above linked directly) Phi Beta Iota: From an objective third-party stand-point, the US intelligence community appears to believe that it is above …
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Smoke Book–False and Fed Documents to Obscure Reality August 4, 2010 Lamar Waldron I spent a good bit of time with this book today, getting more and more irritated as I went through it. Here is my bottom line: this book in its earlier and current version may well be a CIA-facilitated and managed covert …
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EXTRAJUDICIAL TARGETING OF AMERICANS CHALLENGED Two civil liberties organizations said they will file a legal challenge against the government’s suspected targeting for assassination of an American supporter of Al Qaeda, arguing that under the U.S. Constitution no citizen can be “deprived of life… without due process of law.” The American Civil Liberties Union and the …
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