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2011/08/162011/08/16

Review: International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability

Hans Born (Editor), Ian Leigh (Editor), Aidan Wills (Editor) Four for Content, Zero for Price,August 16, 2011 There are some good contributions in this book, and it is certainly recommended for institutional purchase, but the price is utterly outrageous and completely unacceptable for the individual professional, scholar, or practitioner interest in learning from these authors. …

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2011/08/12

Steven Aftergood: USG Information Sharing Update

Information Sharing Still a Work in Progress August 12th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood While information sharing among government agencies has increased dramatically over the past decade, it still falls short in some areas. Due to “impediments to intelligence information sharing between U.S. forces and coalition partners,” information sharing with U.S. allies in Afghanistan has faltered …

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2011/08/102011/08/27

Review: Reflections on Higher Education

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant Today–Perhaps Still Not Appreciated Today, August 10, 2011 There is nothing in this book that I could disagree with, which instantly marks it as iconoclastic rather than traditional or elitist. This long-serving president spent close to three decades managing two universities, the longest The George Washington …

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2011/08/032011/08/03

Cofer Black: Hackers Evil, Pay Me… + Hackers RECAP

Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …

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2011/08/032011/08/03

Joe Mazzafro: Deficit Deal and Impact on the US IC

The MAZZ-INT Blog DEFICIT DEAL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE IC At the time of the July edition of Mazz-INT Blog, the government was tied in a knot over coming to grips with how to get long term spending under control so there would be the political conditions to raise the debt ceiling on August …

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2011/07/312011/07/31

Secrecy News: Court Slams Justice & NSA on Drake

SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2011, Issue No. 72 July 29, 2011 Secrecy News Blog ** HANDLING OF DRAKE LEAK CASE WAS “UNCONSCIONABLE,” COURT SAID The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War days, said …

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2011/07/252011/07/27

Review: Intelligence Analysis – Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations

Baruch Fischhoff and Cherie Chauvin (eds.) Insider/Academic/Psychology Overview, Avoids the Negatives,July 25, 2011 First off, this book is not being offered by Amazon but rather by third party sellers seeking to leverage public ignorance. The book is available for $70 instead of $130 at National Academies Press, where it is also available for free by …

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