The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled By BILL KELLER The New York Times, January 26, 2011 Bill Keller is the executive editor of The New York Times. This essay is adapted from his introduction to “Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Expanded Coverage from The New York Times,” an ebook …
Unbelievable….we cannot make this stuff up! U.S. intelligence agencies ‘sharing too much’ January 20, 2011 – 8:10am House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in his office. (WTOP Photo/J.J. Green) J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON – Intelligence agencies may be ordered to limit the information they share. “When you look at information sharing, I think we …
Continue reading “U.S. intelligence agencies ‘sharing too much’”
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is not dead–it just does not exist within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Department of Defense (DoD). “Butts in Seats,” bureaucracy, political flag officers with no sense of responsibility for the commonwealth, this is our lot today. Rule 1: HUMINT is not an organization. It is a state of mind …
Continue reading “Search: the death of humint + HUMINT RECAP”
For years, Alison and I have been hearing glowing reports of Tunisia from fellow sailors. We finally sailed there and spent five weeks in Tunisia last summer (August and early September). To our surprise, the local people struck us as the least welcoming of those in the Arab countries we have visited over the last …
Continue reading “TUNESIA: Reality, US Insouciance, & WikiLeaks”
The USAF claim that the tragic killing of 23 innocent Afghan civilians last February by one of its Predator UAVs was due to “information overload” reflects an appalling lack of critical thinking on the part of senior Air Force officers. General Mike Hayden (USAF ret.) when director of the NSA used regularly entertain the U.S. …
Continue reading “Richard Wright: MILITARY INTELLIGENCE: All Eyes No Brain Part II”
Navy Intel Chief: Information Dominance Must Balance Firepower By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service, 6 January 2011 WASHINGTON (NNS) — “Information as warfare” requires operational commanders to employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to dominate the information realm even as they direct combat actions, the Navy’s senior intelligence officer said Jan. 5. Vice Adm. David …
Continue reading “Weak Signals: DoD Information Operations First Steps”
China jet upstages US defence chief visit Sydney Morning Herald VIDEO: Stealth Race: China test flies Chengdu J-20 ‘Black Eagle’ Key point: It’s a demonstrator, not a production model. China is years from getting to production model. VISIT: Centre for Analysis of Strategies & Technologies (CAST) Minor league open source on plasma stealth: Secret revealed: …
