The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota has begun a review of all publicly-available documents and directives pertaining to the hybrid discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Click on the cover to access both the full document online and the Phi Beta Iota comment. OSINT is a hybrid discipline, unique in that it is both a complete discipline in …
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By Jill R. Aitoro 07/30/2009 The Obama administration needs to restructure how interagency information-sharing initiatives are funded and implemented to encourage compliance by agencies that currently place a higher priority on their own missions, government and industry experts told House lawmakers Thursday. “Differing missions, overlapping turf conflicts, resource constraints, bureaucratic inertia and agency tunnel vision …
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Accidental American Accidentally Rediscovers Old Knowledge,June 21, 2009
Anthony Kimery surprised me with this article. I was moved, for I have never seen, other than Alvin Toffler’s much shorter overview in 1993, a more profound appreciation for the public service that I have sought to render. Anthony did his homework, and the coherence, the integration, are the result of his talent at making …
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Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed …
Below is a very important report that focuses primarily on Congress as a consumer of SECRET information. The report has yet to be written on Congressional needs for decision-support (intelligence) that is unclassified and can be shared with constituents, the press, and the private sector being regulated and taxed. Click on the Frog to see …
I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem. A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …
