Mongoose: Counterintelligence Failure — FBI Goes After Diplomat — Stupid Agents Using Stupid Tools

Stupidity, both technical and human, looms large in the US Government. When diplomats get punished for doing their jobs The threat that government surveillance and national-security investigations pose for private citizens has been hotly debated for the past decade. Less understood is the damage done to government officials themselves when they fall into the dragnet. …

SchwartzReport: Religious Treason within US Military

This is what I mean by the Theocratic Right’s aggressive program to convert armed services personnel.  Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army colonel, and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on …

SchwartzReport: Global Religious Landscape

The Global Religious Landscape A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010 Executive Summary Geographic Distribution Living as Majorities and Minorities Young and Old About the Study Defining the Religious Groups Roadmap to the Report Worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group. A comprehensive …

Graphic: Religious Groups by Proportional Size

   Source   Phi Beta Iota: The report is severely deficient in failing to distinguish between Sunnis and Shi’ites, and between Catholics, conventional Protestants, and the Evangelicals and Pentecostalists.  That kind of granularity is essential to religious intelligence and counterintelligence.

Intelligence Online: Egypt’s Army Chief US Army War College Thesis Critical of US for Being Blind to the Religious Dimension of Middle Eastern Power and Politics

Sedky Sobhy’s thesis makes the rounds By Issandr El Amrani | Egypt Military sedkysobhy Glad to see that a bunch of news outlets picked up the thesis by Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Sedky Sobhy I highlighted a few days ago. Some wanted to interview me but unfortunately I was not available, but …