Journal: Strike Three for Congress

Seats for Sale Thursday, September 24, 2009 By FCW Editorial What’s so revealing about the 50 is not how rich they are — combined, they are worth a total of $1.3 billion, which is down $171 million from last year’s list — but how new so many of them are.

Contributing Editor: Oso (Bear in Spanish)

Our contributing editor on ethics and government-contractor relations desires to remain anonymous. With multiple graduate degrees across information science and arts, Oso is a veteran of the commercial intelligence sector.  He eschews politics, but when asked, seeks the common sense answer most verifiable by real facts. He reads broadly, especially poetry and fiction, but with …

Journal: How Many CIA’s and How Threatening is the CIA to the Lives of Leon Panetta and Barack Obama?

We were surprised this morning to learn that Ray McGovern, a CIA veteran whose credibility we respect, is saying that Leon Panetta and Barack Obama may be treating CIA with kid gloves for fear of being assassinated by the “insider” CIA that itself fears criminal prosecution for the death of over 100 detainees in CIA …

Journal: It’s Time to Legalize Drugs and Re-Design the Entire National Strategy-Policy-Budget Process

It’s Time to Legalize Drugs By Peter Moskos and Stanford “Neill” Franklin The Washington Post, Monday, August 17, 2009 Undercover Baltimore police officer Dante Arthur was doing what he does well, arresting drug dealers, when he approached a group in January. What he didn’t know was that one of suspects knew from a previous arrest …

Journal: Marcus Aurelius Flags Force Protection Blinders

Protection Rackets By Christopher Dickey | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 31, 2009 In Afghanistan, Americans should deploy Pvt. Social Worker and Maj. Sociologist. PBI:  The conclusion first: “You have to learn to discriminate if you’re going to win,” said Villalobos. “And in Afghanistan, that’s the problem. You don’t know how to do that. You don’t speak …