The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
UPDATE 2 Dec 2012: Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …
Gerard Prunier 5.0 out of 5 stars a comprehensive account of a vast conflict May 29, 2009 By Kirk Huff This is going to be a complicated review.First, if you know nothing about the wars of central Africa over the past 15 years or so, in particular the Rwanda-related conflicts, this is an awful book …
Jeremy Keenan Phi Beta Iota: See Berto Jongman: Algeria Fronting for US in Fabricating Al Qaeda Threat and Legitimizing US Military Occupation of Sahara? for a short-hand version of the book. On balance and sight unseen we give the book four stars for provocation, while respecting the guest review below as being meritorious in its …
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No credit to the OSINT pioneers from 1969 onwards, but the slow are finally catching up. BUT they still think OSINT is a technical collection challenge rather than a HUMINT opportunity. Intelligence Community Must Adapt To Era Of Vast Data, Study Says By Charles S. Clark The digital information revolution has handed the U.S. intelligence …
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Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 113th Congress ANALYSIS November 16, 2012 The newly elected, 113th Congress includes the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate, the first Hindu to serve in either chamber and the first member of Congress to describe her religion as “none,” continuing a gradual increase in religious …
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The Art Of The Deal: Why the CIA needs a diplomat, not a spy, to lead it. By Andy Johnson ForeignPolicy.com,November 29, 2012 With the abrupt departure of Director David Petraeus, the revolving door on the CIA’s seventh floor continues to spin: The average tenure of the agency’s last five leaders has been less than …
