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 …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: China Expands to the Seas

China-Burma: Construction of a high-speed rail link between China’s southwestern province of Yunnan and Myanmar will begin in two months. The line will link Kunming, Yunnan’s capital to Yangon (Rangoon), on the Indian Ocean, according to Wang Mengshu, an academic from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wang said a China-to-Cambodia high-speed rail connection is under …

Reference: Saving Defense from Itself

Weekend Edition November 19 – 21, 2010 Open Letter to Erskine Bowles How to Cut the Defense Budget By THOMAS CHRISTIE, PIERRE SPREY, FRANKLIN SPINNEY et al. Counterpunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/christie11192010.html The Honorable Erskine Bowles National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20504 Dear Mr. Bowles: We are writing to you and …

My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence

Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity. – – – – – – – Posted: October 19, 2010 09:13 AM My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and do Comments. On the left, asking these questions, Tom Atlee, co-founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and author …

Journal: US Intelligence Wasting Billions of Dollars

U.S. intelligence agencies ‘wasted’ billions:  Senator faults mismanagement By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times 8:07 p.m., Tuesday, October 12, 2010 U.S. intelligence agencies have wasted many billions of dollars by mismanaging secret, high-technology programs, the deputy chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence says. “The American public would be outraged if they knew,” Sen. …