The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert, I had lunch with an old friend, Herb REDACTED, a retired intelligence officer and military judge (Air Force). The subject of OSS and your role in the IC came about, and my friend sent me a very interesting, brief, story about the open source back channel in the Cuban Missile Crisis I want to …
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies present the 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence March 11-12, 2010 — Conference and Hotel Registration: http://scs.georgetown.edu/ethics — Conference Questions: conference2010@intelligence-ethics.org Keynote Speakers: Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient 1997 John Inglis. Deputy Director, National Security Agency …
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Michael F. Scheuer former chief of the Al Qaeda analytic station, just slammed John Brennan, George Tenet, and Sandy Berger on CNN (12:50 Eastern time). He stated that among those who died in Afghanistan recently was the officer who devised a workable plan for eliminating Osama Bin Laden, a plan that was cancelled by Brennan, …
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The Radical Legacy Of 1979 By Edward. P. Djerejian If ever one year in recent times was a catalyst for change in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, it was 1979. One ray of bright light in that year of darkness was the signing of the historic Camp David peace treaty between Israel and …
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Very important article from one of the very best reporters covering the Middle East Walking Into the Al-Qaeda Trap Touch Yemen, Get Burned By PATRICK COCKBURN December 31, 2009 Skip to End of Article: It is extraordinary to see the US begin to make the same mistakes in Yemen as it previously made in Afghanistan …
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the …
One of the main arguments made by self-proclaimed “liberal humanitarian interventionists” in support of President Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War is that a return of the Taliban to power will condemn women to conditions approaching slavery. It is true that women’s rights in Afghanistan are almost medieval in character, but the central question of …
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