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2013/04/152013/04/17

Daniel Ellsberg: On Secrecy & Whistleblowing with Comment by Robert Steele

Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing Daniel Ellsberg on January 8, 2013 [Originally published in Social Research] I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity In the “national security” area of the government–the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors–there is less whistleblowing than in other …

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2013/04/022013/04/09

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II: Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

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2013/03/292013/03/29

Review: On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good

Jim Wallis 5.0 out of 5 stars TImely — Relevant to 2014 and 2016, March 29, 2013 God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is in my view the better book, here is the first sentence from my review of that book in 2005: “Jim Wallis has my …

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2013/03/282014/04/09

Graphic: Requirements Management & Program Development — FIRST Prove National Secret Intelligence Fails to Satisfy, THEN Make Case to OMB for a Fractional Transfer of Funding to Your Own Intelligence Program

Citation: Robert David Steele, Graphic: Requirements Management & Program Development, Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog, 27 March 2013.

2013/03/272013/03/27

Dolphin: Intelligence Reform? Not Here, Not Now…

Some odds and ends, quick reads. 2013 Incomplete Intelligence Reform: Why the US Intelligence Community Needs an Empowered DNI Michael Rettig in Diplomatic Courier (12 February 2013) Bottom line: DNI has been neutered from day one — no budget authority, no operational authority, a staff of over a thousand promoted beyond their abilities. 2012 The …

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2013/03/26

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti is an American political writer, historian, and culture critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. A progressive armed with facts instead of ideology, he pays special attention to the enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world, and what common Americans think they are doing — the difference between toxic …

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2013/02/222013/02/22

DefDog: Newly Unclassified Records Show Reagan Administration Promoted Genocide in Guatemala

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. How Reagan Promoted Genocide Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team agreed to supply military aid to the brutal right-wing regime in Guatemala to pursue the goal of exterminating not only “Marxist guerrillas” but their “civilian support mechanisms,” according to a newly …

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