The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Opening up open data: An interview with Tim O’Reilly | McKinsey & Company The tech entrepreneur, author, and investor looks at how open data is becoming a critical tool for business and government, as well as what needs to be done for it to be more effective. A McKinsey & Company article.January 2014 Interview transcript
Rush & crush, this is. Teen Dies Saving Classmates From Suicide Bomber ABC, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Jan. 10, 2014 He was an average student from Hangu, a remote town in North Western Pakistan, but he has become a national hero. Aitzaz Hasan, 14, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school Monday and sacrificed his life …
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Attached is a very different analysis of emerging politics in the Middle East. I do not know what to make of it. Some of it rings true to me, like the pressures on Turkey to shift gears … but taken together, I just don’t know. I welcome any comments, pro or con, about it. I …
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Loch Johnson (editor) 4 out of 5 stars In Thirds: Interesting, Politically Correct, Pap WARNING NOTICE: This is not a current book. It is a reprint of the 2010 publication that was out of date across many chapters when it was originally printed. The Routledge book, Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies is the far better …
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New Report Supplying Details on Corporate Espionage – Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations From this report’s contents, we find it evident that no type of nonprofit, no matter how benign or noble in its aims against injustice and wrong – even nursing home activists! – is exempt from spying by aggressive, malign predator …
HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees Recent unauthorized disclosures of classified information might have been prevented if U.S. intelligence agencies “continuously evaluated the backgrounds of employees and contractors,” according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). In its new report on the FY 2014 intelligence authorization bill, the Committee would require intelligence …
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction | The Deterioration of Government John j. Hamre PART 1: GETTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER Can We Rebuild a National Security Consensus? Kathleen h. Hicks The Snowden Effect: Can We Undo the Damage to American Power? James a. Lewis What Battlefield Lessons Have We Learned from 12 Years of War? Maren …
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