The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In the fall of 2010, CACI of Arlington, a major player in the U.S. government’s cyber security business, held a symposium entitled “Cyber Threats to National Security,” in partnership with the U.S. Naval Institute to discuss the issue of Cyber Security. CACI is chasing roughly $2 billion worth of cyber-related contracts over the next few …
One of the mysteries of the intelligence world is why the redoubtable Charlie Allen of CIA was always so popular with line analysts and so unpopular with management. In the book Long Strange Journey, Patrick Eddington its author recounts his experiences in a course on warning intelligence that Allen initiated when he was the National …
Continue reading “Get Real–On Jim Clapper’s Failure to Lead”
There is no doubt that, Pentagon Labyrinth is a first rate piece of work. However it did fail to mention an additional factor in defense procurement costs that is often overlooked and that is the need to subsidize U.S. defense industry giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman and General Dynamics. This also explains the over …
Continue reading “Pentagon Contractors Baby Gaga on Steroids”
This is a follow up to that 13 February Spinney piece on predicting the future, DARPA as Poster Child for Out of Control Budget. It belongs to the category of “we don’t make this stuff up.” Speaking of this category, I think this latest incident in Pakistan (CIA contractor shoots two Pakistanis in broad daylight, …
Continue reading “21st Century Magic? Or 1950’s Idiocy on Steroids?”
When I wrote of Barbara McNamara and her views of Diane Roark, I should have mentioned that she viewed Charlie Allen as intrusive as well and referred to him as a loose cannon more than once. Her quote for the 9/11 Commission interview that, “Charlie Allen brings an energy level – you never ask him …
Continue reading “Barbara McNamara: Charlie Allen a “Loose Cannon””
According to a 16 February piece in the New York Times by Mark Lander, “President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.” Participants included …
Continue reading “Structuring Strategic Decision Support Intelligence”
Behind Closed Doors On 31 January 2011 Secrecy News returned to a subject that had been discussed earlier: the federal investigations of former NSA employee Thomas Drake for revealing classified information and of a former congressional intelligence committee staffer, Diane Roark, for assisting him. This latest article essentially quotes former NSA Deputy Director Barbara McNamara …
