The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Erudite, Itself Out of Balance, Secoond Tier Reading January 8, 2010 Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth This is one of three books I bought to reflect on the same generic topic, the other two are Power & Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat and To Lead the World: American Strategy after …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Instability in Yemen a global threat 01/04/10 AA: Pipeline politics in Central Asia 01/04/10 AE: UAE plans cyber crimes court 01/05/10 AE: Waha Capital closes financing of AED 6.7 billion transportation aircraft for … …
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January 7, 2010 Why? CounterTerrorism in Shambles By RAY McGOVERN and COLEEN ROWLEY On January 5, a blogger with the PBS’ NewsHour asked former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to respond to three questions regarding recent events involving the CIA, FBI, and the intelligence community in general Two other old intelligence hands were asked the identical questions, …
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Phi Beta Iota: Insane is continuing to do what is not working. Stupid is continuing to do what is not working combined with throwing more money at it. The US Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense may finally be closing in on a paradigm shift that restores OUTPUTS (decision-support for the first, peace for …
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UPDATE: Journal: CIA’s Poor Tradecraft AND Poor Management UPDATE: Bomber was Jordanian doctor & Jordanian intelligence asset Phi Beta Iota: This keeps getting worse. We wonder if CIA contractors get stars on the wall–4 employees including the one who was over-ruled by Berger, Tenet, and Brennen in taking Bin Laden out unilaterally; 3 guards, and …
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Undeniable Genius Isolated from Other Movements January 4, 2010 David Gershon This book is a work of undeniable genius and to that I would add peseverence–the author and his wife Gail Straub have been on the forefront of the personal empowerment movement from the late 1970’s onward, and in many ways this book is a …
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Michael Scheuer, Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief (1996-99) Today on C-SPAN: Michael Scheuer, Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief (1996-99), discussed the latest on the alleged terrorist attack on Northwest flight 253, new security procedures, the recent killings of CIA employees in Afghanistan and the Obama administration’s response to foreign terrorists. Washington, DC Phi …
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