The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE: A colleague from within asked us to highlight this quote with the observation that neither the US IC nor DoD have any clue how to execute. We agree. Both lack leadership with vision and multinational panache; they simply do not know what they do not know because they have both wasted the last 21 …
Criminal Pricing in Sharp Contrast to Content January 13, 2010 Majid Tehranian I read a lot, and quite by accident (or courtesy of Dick Cheney who drove people back to books looking for answers) I am the top Amazon reviewer for non-fiction. I would have bought this book, along with the book I did buy …
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CNN Editor’s note: Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and the former head of the CIA’s unit focused on fighting terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The author of a recently published book about the CIA, “Beyond Repair,” Faddis is also president of Orion Strategic Services, a Maryland-based consulting firm. Phi Beta …
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Phi Beta Iota: Tell us again why it takes ten days for a Dari translation of a captured document? This is OLD technology. 2 megapixels is not great, 4 would be safe, but the point is that there is absolutely no reason why we cannot be doing real-time Dari translations from the field, both of …
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Fast Read, Ground Truth, Moral Truth, Priceless Insights January 5, 2010 Michael Hogan I received this book as a gift from the author after I reviewed Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, and I am very glad to have accepted his offer. At 218 pages double-spaced it is …
Pink Slips, Spyblogs, and More New Year’s Resolutions for the Intelligence Community By Michael Tanji January 4, 2010 Michael Tanji spent nearly 20 years in the US intelligence community. A veteran of the US Army, Michael has served in both strategic and tactical assignments worldwide, and has participated in national and international analysis and policy …
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Stiglitz’s 5 Lessons from 2009 Thursday, 12/31/2009 – 12:01 pm by Joseph Stiglitz New Deal 2.0 Roosevelt Institute Braintruster and Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz identifies five lessons we can take away from the financial crisis. The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from …
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