The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sorry for the failure to get to the core pieces. Part of the challenge is that “integrity” is a recurring theme — this web site, by definition, is replete with integrity in every posting, every link, every intent. This search overview does not include ethics, legitimacy, or truth, three other core terms and concepts that …
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is predominantly a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) endeavor. The US Government (USG) has not only failed to be serious about OSINT (and thereby deliberately foresaken all possibilities of doing intelligence with integrity for Whole of Government), but it appears to have eliminated all possibilities for OSINT progress by eliminating all positions with …
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-IG Executive Reading (Printable 10-Pages): 2013 Steele Reflections on Inspectors-General 1.7 Updated 6 October 2012 Version 1.7 When I was selected for an interview to be the Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it was General Ron Burgess, USA and Ms. Tish Long that …
A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY A Conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis EDGE, [8.21.12] These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of discoveries and opportunities …
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Daniel T. Rodgers 4.0 out of 5 stars An entire book without the words “corruption” or “paradigm failure”,August 19, 2012 I bought this book expecting it to be a six star special, and then was tempted to drop it to three stars for completely missing the point. I’ve settled on four. It is a brilliant …
Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Experts and Theories of Scientific/Intellectual Production Lisa Stampnitzky Qual Sociol DOI 10.1007/s11133-010-9187-4 Abstract “Terrorism” has proved to be a highly problematic object of expertise. Terrorism studies fails to conform to the most common sociological notions of what a field of intellectual production ought to look like, and has been described …
