Marcus Aurelius: Snowden Says “Mission Accomplished”

IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities.  Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …

Steve Aftergood: Orgs ask DNI to Preserve Access to World News Connection — Comment on OSC in AF by Robert Steele

ORGS ASK DNI TO PRESERVE ACCESS TO WORLD NEWS CONNECTION More than a dozen professional societies and public interest groups wrote to the Director of National Intelligence last week to ask him to preserve public access to foreign news reports gathered, translated and published by the Open Source Center and marketed to subscribers through the …

OSINT Literature Review, Name Association, Lessons Learned

Tough love, this is. Lessons Learned from a 22 Year Fight: 01 Steele’s biggest mistake was in not ensuring OSS conference presentations were indexed in Conference Proceedings. Core value of presentation at International Studies Association (Intelligence) is that papers presented there are indexed and visible. 02 International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, American Intelligence Review, …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: 2014 Top Cyber Security Threats CYBER: Increasing Anti-Surveillance Momentum and the Necessary and Proportionate Principles (EFF) CYBER: Russia Internet Extremism Bill CYBER: Trojan.Skimer.18 Infects ATMs CYBER: World’s Biggest Data Breaches Visualized OPEN: Iranian Nuclear Deal OPEN: US, India, & Gulf (Cordesman) OPEN: US & UK Close Relations with Gaddafi Intel THREAT: CAR Humanitarian Crisis …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Antibiotics in Livestock Arctic Ice Volume Bouncing Back Boston Globe on Tsaraev [Possible Disinformation] Conflict Foretold: America and China Conflict Monthly Interactive Map Counterterrorism in Pakistan: Lethargy Cyber-Intelligence Complex and Persecution of Journalists