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2010/12/232010/12/23

Reference: Anthony Cordesman On Intelligence

QUESTION: Did Cordesman address intelligence in SALVAGING AMERICAN DEFENSE–The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch? ANSWER: Actually he did under “Challenge Seven” on inter-agency co-operation. In general his observations on inter-agency co-operation complement what you have often noted over the years. In this chapter he also has a scathing section called “The Impact of New Intelligence Hierarchy” in which he notes …

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2010/12/202011/01/01

States’ Rights Rolling Update CLOSED

Updated 30 December 2010

2010/12/142011/10/22

Reference: Personal for Mike Bloomberg

Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 14, 2010 11:30 AM Personal for Mike Bloomberg This letter, available as a document online, was written before the No Labels “show,” which flopped big time as you now realize. I won’t belabor the headlines (no specifics, no coherence, no point) or the fact that three …

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2010/12/072011/02/06

Reference: Citizens Fiddle, Obama Dances

Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 7, 2010 07:48 AM Citizens Fiddle, Obama Dances When things are not going well, until you get the truth out on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it. — Bob Seelert, Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (New …

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2010/12/052010/12/05

Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …

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2010/12/012010/12/01

Journal: What is the Nature of the Shia-Sunni/Persian-Arab Confrontation?

Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice. Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …

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2010/12/012010/12/01

Reference: CRS 2010 Intelligence Issues for Congress

Tip of the Hat to Gary Price at LinkedIn. Phi Beta Iota: This is of passing interest as an overview of what people are thinking about at the shallowest possible level in relation to the Wall Street/Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC). STRIKE ONE: The document still does not understand that overt Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is 90% of …

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