The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
THE U.S. NAVY: TROUBLED WATERS
By Winslow Wheeler Time, Dec. 3-5, 2012
Part 1: If more money buys a smaller fleet, what does less money buy?
Part 2: More than the Navy’s numbers could be shrinking
Part 3: Is the fleet steaming forward or backward?
All three articles below the line.
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ROBERT STEELE: “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.” For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.”
2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP
Leadership ethics is a two part challenge. Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often ignorant as well, persisting in archaic sources and methods because that is all they know. Leaders play a 360 degree facilitating role, nurturing — in the intelligence community context — consumers ignorant about the value of intelligence as decision support tailored to each individual consumers needs — one size fits all is Stone Age — “leader” peers lost in their own disciplines or sub-disciplines and lacking in the coherent holistic understanding needed to make a community out of what is now an archipelago of isolated stovepipes — and subordinates who have a right to be constantly learning and afforded full access to all sources of information in all languages, not the thin gruel we force feed them today while isolating them from reality and full spectrum Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).
Ethics is about transparency, truth, and trust. Double-dealing is the norm now in most intelligence communities, relying on secrecy to avoid accountability. Ethical leaders need to have a grip on reality and not just be super-empowered clerks processing dollars to no good public end, only the ends of the recipients of taxpayer dollars and the corrupt legislators that perpetuate capabilities we do not need, cannot afford, and that do not in any event work as advertised.
Vea 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic). Utilice Google Translate (parte superior de la columna del medio) para otros idiomas.
Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog.
Document: Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB
Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate.
See Also:
21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Robert David Steele
Introduction
OSINT and Intelligence Reform
– History
– Requirements
– Collection
– Processing
– Analysis
– Covert Action
– Counterintelligence
– Accountability, Civil Liberties, and Oversight
– Strategic Warning
– Strategic Sharing
– Emerging Prospects
— Digitization
— Visualization
— Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
OSINT and Electoral Reform
OSINT and Governance Reform
OSINT and Strategic Budgetary Reform
Notes 1-44
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Mali-Burkina Faso: Government officials from Mali held the first direct talks with delegates from the Tuareg and Islamist rebel groups that seized the north of the country after a coup earlier this year. The talks occurred in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rebels pledged to respect national unity and to reject all forms of extremism.
Comment: The rebels appear to be trying to avert or at least delay the planned West African military operation to recover the north. Their profession of support for national unity and rejection of extremism requires clarification because the pro-al Qaida group has instituted the strictest form of Islamic law in Timbuktu and other northern cities, destroyed ancient shrines and ignored direction from the government in Bamako.
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Circulating Broadly
(U) Covert Action-T10, T50, and the Chain of Cmd (JFQ-67_32-39_Berger)
Evil, Google is….Autonomous, Net must be.
Just Be Evil: The unauthorized history of Google
by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
June 19, 2012
Google Inc. is back in the news this week, with a fresh round of headlines about the search giant and government censorship. Ironically–though perhaps not surprisingly for the corporate media–the stories are not about Google’s admitted but classified relationship with government agencies like the NSA, though. Instead, they portray the internet company as a protagonist sticking up for users’ privacy rights against governments that are increasingly interested in blocking, scrubbing or banning links, search results, and online videos that those governments want to suppress.
Under headlines like “Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests” and “Google Sees Surge in Censorship Demands,” writers for mainstream publications are dutifully outlining the results of a new Google Inc. transparency report detailing precisely how many times they have been petitioned by governments around the world to censor, block, or scrub material that they find unlawful or objectionable.
The report outlines, for instance, that the US government made 6,192 separate requests for Google to remove information from its services in the latter half of 2011, up from 757 requests in the first half of that year.
