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Jim Clapper: Do I Really Want to Be Here? + Robert Steele’s Simple Guide to Fixing National Intelligence + Intelligence Failure Meta-RECAP 2.0

Americans Must Call for Independent Counsel and Ouster of Clapper (Forbes) Fire James Clapper: The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about? (Slate) James Clapper, NSA and the “L” word (Washington Post) James Clapper Reassures Private Contractors In Wake Of NSA Leak (Huffington Post) N.S.A. Disclosures …

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Mongoose: Prism the Bulk of President’s Daily Brief?

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program Washington Post, 6 June 2013 VIDEO Barton Gellman on Source and Consequences EXTRACT Government officials and the document itself made clear that the NSA regarded the identities of its private partners as PRISM’s most sensitive secret, fearing that the companies would …

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Josh Kilbourn: VIDEO from Hong Kong — Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance — REACTIONS + New Details

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 June 2013 • Q&A with …

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Owl: Is DHS Using NSA to Create a Domestic “Red List”? + DHS RECAP

This writer claims a “threat matrix” has been secretly developed in anticipation of a martial law declaration in the possibly near future. It will be for readers here to decide whether this is plausible or not, but it offers some interesting details on how the “threat score” will work that gives it some air of …

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DefDog: Intelligence Smoke, the Real Fires are in DoD — and the Coming Crash

Useful distraction from the real fires in DoD. Obama defends secret NSA surveillance programs – as it happened Spy chief strongly defends surveillance, calls it legal Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook US intelligence boss calls for criminal investigation …

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Reflections on Insanity & Integrity + Reflections RECAP

I’ve been watching three areas the past few months: 01  Afghanistan and the non-existent exit strategy 02  NSA and the implosion of accountability in the US IC 03  Veteran suicides, active duty sexual assaults, and “the German disease” From where I sit, the senior leadership across the national security community and deep into every corner …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Alternative Negative View of Latest Jobs Report

June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy. Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs. Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that economists promised would be our reward from Globalism. I’m afraid not. According to the …

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