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Marcus Aurelius: Army of None — Pentagon Loses Best & Brightest

Unusually interesting article.  Some aspects of problem I was aware.  Disagree with several of proposed fixes.  Understand Air Force has had some success with running an open bid system on upcoming assignments. An Army Of None Why the Pentagon is failing to keep its best and brightest. Tim Kane ForeignPolicy.com, January 10, 2013 As the …

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Marcus Aurelius: CIA’s Double Standard Exploitation of Secrecy — Use It to Hide Official Attrocities, While Screwing Iconoclasts + RECAP

Secret Double Standard By Ted Gup New York Times, January 9, 2013 Cambridge, Mass. — IN the last week, the American public has been reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency’s contradictory attitude toward secrecy. In a critique of “Zero Dark Thirty,” published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., …

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Mini-Me: Kerry-Hagel as Obama Attempt to Change Direction Away from War and Toward Domestic Reconstruction

Huh? A view of what’s really behind Hagel nomination fight From CNN’s “Early Start” January 8, 2013 EXTRACT: CNN: Peter wrote what I think is (one of the) most … interesting and compelling articles about the Hagel nomination, explaining it perhaps better than anyone I’ve seen, including the president. The first paragraph of the piece, …

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Marcus Aurelius: Fact-Checking CIA Fact-Checking 0 Dark 30 [with Robert Steele Fact-Checking Both] 1.2

Fact-Checking the CIA’s Fact-Check on ‘Zero Dark Thirty By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Dec 28, 2012 “The CIA is a lot different than Hollywood portrays it to be,” reads an official explainer issued today by the Central Intelligence Agency — a thinly veiled attempt to continue debunking Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Oscar favorite that …

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Mini-Me: John Brennan, Drones, Killing Children + Drone Meta-RECAP

Huh? John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Medea Benjamin Huffington Post, 01/08/2013 In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days …

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