The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pakistan: An elite police commando from the provincial police force who was assigned as a bodyguard for the governor of Punjab Province murdered the governor today in Islamabad. The commando dropped his weapon and surrendered to the police, bragging that he was proud he killed a blasphemer. With that, Pakistan’s political crisis deepened.
In defense of RSS Lots of buzz today about RSS (dying or not dying). If you’re not using it, can I strongly suggest you give it a try? I use Newsfire. Not sure the particular readers matters, though. Here’s what you need to know: It’s not particularly difficult to keep up with 200 blogs you …
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SEE ALSO: Journal: Gorgon Stare (All Eyes, No Brain) The American Way of War: If You Can See Everything, Can You Know Anything? With Air Force’s new drone, ‘we can see everything,’ in today’s Washington Post (attached below) is a good example of how the high-cost addiction to techno war is running amok. One thing …
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Afghanistan: Our mandate for action is finally exhausted The withdrawal of our troops is not because we have won or lost in any conventional sense Editorial The Observer, Sunday 2 January 2011 This year will see the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and, according to current plans, the beginning of British troop withdrawal. …
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DNI Clapper Needs to Know The Weekly Standard, DEC 29, 2010 In fact, the more we learn about what the plotters were up to, as well as the efforts to stop them, the more troubling the DNI’s ignorance becomes. Three facts, in particular, have emerged that make this lapse inexcusable. First, the State Department says …
Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) was created to examine how the terrorist attacks of September 2001 could have occurred and what could be done to prevent future attacks. Among other things the Commission recommended that there should be a National Intelligence Director who would have “two main areas …
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