The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Editors Did Great, Could Have Gone Extra Mile October 31, 2009 Zhao Ziyang Most people miss the two bottom lines that I found engaging: 1. China’s government is a screwed up bureaucracy with petty egos just like ours. 2. China produced moderate pragmatist Premier Zhao Ziyang, promoted him, and empowered him. With all due respect …
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Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been …
Meet Walter Pincus. He has “covered” the U.S. Intelligence Community for over two decades. Fine Print: U.S. Intelligence and Afghan Narcotics By Walter Pincus Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Click on the story title to read the story. The entire story is built arouind an Air Force contracting announcement, and everything there-in is taken at face …
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By Jill R. Aitoro 07/30/2009 The Obama administration needs to restructure how interagency information-sharing initiatives are funded and implemented to encourage compliance by agencies that currently place a higher priority on their own missions, government and industry experts told House lawmakers Thursday. “Differing missions, overlapping turf conflicts, resource constraints, bureaucratic inertia and agency tunnel vision …
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Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed …
Disappointing, Some Value, October 22, 2008
Useful Contribution, Neglects Outputs & Constituencies, May 28, 2008
