The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CNN Editor’s note: Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and the former head of the CIA’s unit focused on fighting terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The author of a recently published book about the CIA, “Beyond Repair,” Faddis is also president of Orion Strategic Services, a Maryland-based consulting firm. Phi Beta …
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Interview With Admiral Mullen by Fareed Zakaria, CNN Transcript and YouTube Interview with General Patraeus by Christine Amanpour, CNN Story There’s ‘Work To Be Done,’ 9/11 Commission Chairs Say (Lee Hamilton, Thomas Kean) The war of new words: Why military history trumps buzzwords (Willam F. Own) Let’s Take Bureaucracy Out Of Intelligence (John Bolton) Beating …
An Utterly Superb Intellectual Contribution–a Major New Reference January 10, 2010 David Cortright This book is a gift to humanity, a foundational reference of such extraorindary value that I earnestly believe it should be required reading for every single liberal arts program in the world, and used as a core book in all graduate international …
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Superb From Right of Center–VERY Satisfying Competent Collection January 10, 2010 Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro Of the three books I bought to explore this particular theme, this was the best by far and the only one to earn five stars. Twelve chapters, twelve authors, not a single runt in this litter. The notes are …
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The Meaning Of Al Qaeda’s Double Agent: The jihadists are showing impressive counterintelligence ability that the CIA seems to have underestimated. Wall Street Journal Reuel Marc Gerecht January 8, 2010 [safety copy of entire piece below the fold] Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can’t Do TIME Magazine By Peter Beinart Monday, Jan. 18, …
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Terrorism Fight Requires Intelligence Accountability (Senator John Kerry) Frankly, we don’t need more commissions or bureaucracies. We do need intelligence professionals and their managers who are committed to a new culture of quality, cooperation, and accountability. Two attacks highlight counterterrorism’s bureaucratic bog (David Ignatius) Talking to veteran counterterrorism officers, I hear a common theme that …
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EDIT of 9 Jan 10: Note seven comments from retired senior officers. Critique of the CT Summary for the White House This is a negligent piece of work that fails to include all that is known merely from open sources of information, but more importantly its judgments are misdirected. This incident remains incompletely investigated until …
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