The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Mafia Wars: How Italy’s Military Police Use Metadata To Track Organized Crime The Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, used a new software platform to analyze the phone records of organized crime groups. Here’s what happened. There’s a reason why the NSA likes metadata so much. Metadata–the auxiliary data generated by every digital move you make–can track …
PDF (15 Pages): Dover Steele PSA April 2014 Dover, R & Steele, RD (2014) Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence: Seven Barriers to Reform, Paper presented the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester (14 Arpil 2014). ROBERT STEELE: An Open Source Agency would be helpful but I was naive to expect the US IC …
U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia In Crimea, Russia May Have Gotten a Jump on West by Evading U.S. Eavesdropping EXTRACTS: U.S. military satellites spied Russian troops amassing within striking distance of Crimea last month. But intelligence analysts were surprised because they hadn’t intercepted any telltale communications where Russian leaders, military commanders or …
This presents an analysis from various geopolitical, military, and intelligence angles, and very confidently posits the Indian Ocean base Diego Garcia as the final location of flight 370. The author also provides arguments for claiming the jet was remotely hijacked and driven to the base. Is MH370 The Latest Casualty Of The Pentagon’s Pivot To …
ODNI Rethinks Secrecy and Openness in Intelligence By leaking classified intelligence documents, Edward Snowden transformed public awareness of the scale and scope of U.S. intelligence surveillance programs. But his actions are proving to be no less consequential for national security secrecy policy. “These leaks have forced the Intelligence Community to rethink our approach to transparency …
Google Flu Trends: How Algorithms Get Lost March 15, 2014 Run a query for Google Flu Trends on Google. The results point to the Google Flu Trends Web site at http://bit.ly/1ny9j58. The graphs and charts seem authoritative. I find the colors and legends difficult to figure out, but Google knows best. Or does it? A …
Richard Clarke at RSA Conference: 10 Observations on US Intelligence Gathering A veteran counter-terrorism advisor and Presidential Review Group member on Intelligence gives his executive summary I’m in San Francisco this week to attend the RSA security conference, and to cover the Cloud Security Alliance summit for security professionals. The CSA is a terrific organization, …
