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Marcus Aurelius: US IC UNCLAS Syria CW Assessment

Special attention to last four paras on page 2. Administration is forcing IC beyond its objective collection/reporting role into political advocacy. Intelligence Community Unclassified Assessment Chemical Weapons Attack by the Syrian Regime The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on …

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Marcus Aurelius: Conflicted About Ethics, Secrecy, & the Public Interest

COMMENTS: 1.  This is one of more internally contradictory pieces I can remember reading; 2.  Mark Bowden certainly knows a thing or three about perpetuating compromise of classified information since he’s done bunch of it; 3.  Bowden harkens back to old saying, “.. there are good secrets, there are bad secrets, and there are non-secrets …

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Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon Implodes — Dull Minds Make Dull Cuts

COMMENT:  RIFs vice furloughs is consistent with other reporting which quotes Frank Kendall, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics as saying, essentially, that recent furloughs were inconvenient for OSD seniors because they made it virtually impossible to hold meetings on Mondays and Fridays. Bloomberg.com August 22, 2013 Pentagon Weighs Firing Thousands Under 2014 …

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Marcus Aurelius: CIA False Flag Terrorism in Iran Plus Overview of Government-Sponsored False Flag Terrorism Over

F-6  info? CIA Admits It Hired People to Impersonate Enemies and Commit Terrorism in Iran The news that the CIA has admitted that it helped overthrow Iran’s democratically elected president in 1953 has gone viral. In reality, the CIA admitted that a long time ago.  Indeed, the bigger story is that the CIA admitted that it hired Iranians in the …

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Marcus Aurelius: Unlawful Command Influence Compounded by Ignorance

Article below and accompanying SECDEF memo are about a non-trivial, very high-stakes issue that threatens to destroy the military chain of command.  Principal immediate causes are the actions of two separate Air Force three-staff commanders, one of them female, who exercised their lawful discretion as courtmartial convening authorities in accordance with Article 60 of the …

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Marcus Aurelius: How Snowden “Came Out” — Includes Tradecraft Insights

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her public …

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