The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
American Commentary: America Rides off Into the Sunset American Commentary: Mr. President, Words Matter Big Dumb Government: Recession chugs on, except in government Big Dumb Government: U.S. to Form Climate-Change Agency Cyber-Security: Open Security Foundation – State of the Union 2010 Cyber-Security: Zeus Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil Foreign Affairs: China Growls At …
“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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A biography of the author of this excellent essay can be found here. Phi Beta Iota: When the public disconnects from public policy, policy is made without regard to intelligence. This is one reason we concluded that to save the value of secret intelligence (i.e. prevent its being ignored and manipulated) we needed to create a …
TIP OF THE HAT to Manna The idea of a new agency for S&R ops was put forward a few months ago by Stuart Bowen, IG for Iraq reconstruction. After reviewing DoD and DoS efforts there, he proposed a US Office for Contingency Operations (USOCO). A whole of government agency to unify command and avoid …
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Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …
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More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution Washington Times January 27, 2010 Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, appearing on CNN with Fareed Zakaria today, Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 1300, has just turned in the single most brilliant and statemanlike precise (on Haiti) that we have been privileged to witness in over a decade. We’ve been down on Brzezinski during that period because he has not given up his compulsion …
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