The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Source Center created at suggestion of the 9/11 Commission? Really? AP Exclusive: Who’s following you on Twitter or Facebook? Maybe CIA’s ‘vengeful librarians’ By Associated Press, Friday, November 4 Phi Beta Iota: Evidently AP does not do its homework and takes Doug Naquin’s crap at face value. The Open Source Center was not created at …
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More evidence, as if we needed it, of the lack of integrity of this administration….. New Afghan War Plan Concedes the Surge Fell Short Spencer Ackerman WIRED, 1 November 2011 As the Obama administration winds down its troop surge in Afghanistan, it’s adopted a new political strategy for ending the war. And that new strategy …
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Phi Beta Iota: Keep an open mind. This is deeply serious and directly relevant to understanding the convergence of the honest right, the honest left, and OccupyWallStreet. Don DeBar (aligned with Cynthia McKinney) sends: Zinoviev on Lenin and the (1905) Petrograd Soviet What Lenin meant to convey was that the Soviets were not the ordinary …
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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 5 Stars – Superb Individual Effort, October 25, 2011 In its own way this book is every bit as good as such classics as The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) or The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters …
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This unconnected, dispersed approach to intelligence has never worked and this is a clear example of its failure. When one tries to do intelligence remotely, using technological means, one looses the “native atmospherics” that often tell more about what is going on than any sensor. U.S. deaths in drone strike due to miscommunication, report says …
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US Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference on 11 Oct where he claimed Federal authorities had foiled a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and to bomb the embassies of Saudi Arabia and Israel in Washington (NYT). The vagueness and innuendo in …
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Corruption cubed. Petraeus tells CIA analysts to heed troops on war AP, 14 October 2011 WASHINGTON – David Petraeus, the former general who led the Afghanistan war and now heads the CIA, has ordered his intelligence analysts to give greater weight to the opinions of troops in the fight, U.S. officials said. CIA analysts now …
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