The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Season on CIA? – Are The Days of Living Immunity Instead of Cover Over? I had occasion to reflect today on the past twenty years, recollecting how easily in 1992 a new path could have been taken, one that reconnected the US intelligence community to “ground truth” using open sources and methods, as well …
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CIA rushed to save diplomats as Libya attack was underway Greg Miller Washington Post, 1 November 2012 The CIA rushed security operatives to an American diplomatic compound in Libya within 25 minutes after it had come under attack and played a more central role in the effort to fend off a night-long siege than has …
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Drones: The Morality of War From the Sky By Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 11, 2012 President Obama, who is putatively a civil libertarian—or, at the very least, the preferred candidate of most civil libertarians—has achieved something remarkable over the course of his term. He has led an expansive war against America’s enemies using lethal …
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Being read in Europe. Counting Drone Strike Deaths Columbia Law School, Human Rights Clinic October 2012 Read full report (PDF 36 Pages)
An alternative account. Israel & Iran at (Cyber) War – How the “Beast of Kandahar” Was Looted by the “Mongrel of Tehran” Not quite an airplane, a helicopter or even a drone, the unmanned Iranian aerial vehicle that ambled into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6 was one of oddest flying objects seen in international …
Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic). Professor …
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Huh? Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts By ERIC SCHMITT, HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has dealt the Central Intelligence Agency a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at a time of increasing …
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