The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
O’s ‘Fixes’ Will Fail:Feeding more fat to obese US intelligence (Ralph Peters) None of these people, including our president, took what almost happened on Christmas seriously — until the public outcry spooked them. To energize the bureaucratic proles, you have to chop off aristocratic heads. But President Obama won’t use the guillotine. He’s protecting incompetents. …
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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Bubba Book January 6, 2010 Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, Stephen John Stedman EDIT of 7 Jan 09. I got halfway through another book last night and now understand the Princeton-based idea that the US has enough power to demand changes and that earlier “balance of power” constraints might not apply. On the one hand, this …
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies present the 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence March 11-12, 2010 — Conference and Hotel Registration: http://scs.georgetown.edu/ethics — Conference Questions: conference2010@intelligence-ethics.org Keynote Speakers: Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient 1997 John Inglis. Deputy Director, National Security Agency …
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Fast Read, Ground Truth, Moral Truth, Priceless Insights January 5, 2010 Michael Hogan I received this book as a gift from the author after I reviewed Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, and I am very glad to have accepted his offer. At 218 pages double-spaced it is …
Inside Obama’s War On Terrorism Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first president to take office in the Age of Terrorism. He inherited two struggles — one with Al Qaeda and its ideological allies, and another that divides his own country over issues like torture, prosecutions, security and what it means to be an American. …
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