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DefDog: FBI Wants to Advance the Art of Interrogation

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Creepy: FBI wants to “advance the science of interrogation”

FBI group looking to develop better ways to interrogate high-profile bad guys

By Layer 8

NetworkWorld, Thu, 04/12/12

From deep in the Department of Creepy today I give this item: The FBI this week put out a call for new research “to advance the science and practice of intelligence interviewing and interrogation.”

The part of the FBI that is requesting the new research isn't out in the public light very often: the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which according to the FBI was chartered in 2009 by the National Security Council and includes members of the CIA and Department of Defense, to “deploy the nation's best available interrogation resources against detainees identified as having information regarding terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies.”

The purpose of research requested by the controversial HIG is to advance the science and practice of intelligence interviewing and interrogation, the FBI stated.  The group defined several areas for long-range study that include:

  • Field observations of military and strategic interrogators, intelligence interviewers in order to document strategies, methods and outcomes;
  • Surveys and structured interviews of interrogators, intelligence interviewers and debriefers specified by the Government in order to document what these operational personnel think works and does not work and the development of operationally-based best practices which may be later investigated via laboratory or field studies;
  • Development, testing and evaluation of metrics for assessing the efficacies of interrogations, intelligence interviews and debriefs and of the use of particular interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief strategies and methods;
  • Field quasi-experimental studies to evaluate the efficacy of new evidence-based interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief strategies and methods;
  • Laboratory studies to test and/or discover new interrogation, intelligence interview and debrief methods;
  • Laboratory or field studies to assess the validity of evidence-based interviewing, deception detection, and other relevant principles and/or methods across non-U.S. populations both with and without the use of interpreters;
  • Laboratory or field studies on fundamental psychological processes (to include but not be limited to decision-making, emotion, motivation, memory, persuasion, social identities and social development) as these are relevant to interrogations, intelligence interviews and debriefs;
  • Laboratory or field studies of interpersonal processes (e.g., social influence, persuasion, negotiation, conflict resolution and management), with particular attention to cultural and intercultural issues.

Phi Beta Iota:  Evidently the FBI has not fully absorbed the existing knowledge represented by such stellar ethical interrogators as Col Stu Herrington, USA (Ret).   Technology is not a substitute for thinking.  Research is not a substitute for experience.

 

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Event: 16-19 July Las Vegas 2012 International Conference on Internet Computing

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2012 International Conference on Internet Computing

Dates: Jul 16 – 19, 2012

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Social networks
  • Next generation of internet + modeling and analysis
  • Traffic models and statistics
  • Metacomputing
  • Electronic commerce and internet
  • Resource management and location
  • Design and analysis of internet protocols and engineering
  • Web based computing
  • Web mining
  • Network architectures and network computing
  • Network operating systems
  • Quality of service
  • Wide area consistency
  • Internet and emerging technologies
  • Internet security and trust
  • Internet law and compliance
  • Internet and scalability issues
  • Internet delivery and applications
  • Internet telephony
  • Internet based decision support systems
  • Internet and enterprise management
  • Internet applications and appliances
  • Internet banking systems
  • Internet and video technologies
  • Internetworking
  • Denial of service issues
  • Caching algorithms for the internet
  • Grid based computing and internet tools
  • Cooperative applications
  • Tele-medical and other applications
  • Mobile computing and the internet
  • Agents for internet computing
  • The WWW and intranets
  • Digital libraries/digital image collections
  • Languages for distributed programming
  • Web interfaces to databases
  • User-interface/multimedia/video/audio/user interaction
  • The internet and Cloud computing
  • Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML/…
  • Java applications on internet
  • Alternative web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, …
  • Server space/web server performance
  • Web monitoring
  • Web documents management
  • Web site design and coordination
  • Other aspects and applications relating to internet-based computing
  • Workshop on Computer Games Design and Development:
    • Managing gaming communities
    • Augmented reality games
    • Game architectures
    • Special-purpose hardware for games
    • Computer games and education
    • Mobile and ubiquitous games
    • Games and the web
    • Making quality game textures
    • Threading technologies for games
    • Assessment of new generation of computer games
    • The impact of art and culture in game design
    • Game theory as it relates to internet
    • Artificial intelligence and computer games
    • Tools for game development on the internet
    • Grid computing and games
    • Massively multiplayer games and issues
    • Social impact of computer games
    • Wavelets technology for games
    • Compression methods for games
    • 3D hardware accelerators for games on the internet
    • Audio-video communication tools for network 3D games
    • Virtual actors
    • Virtual world creation
    • Background sound/music for games
    • Holographic displays and games
    • Computer graphics and virtual reality tools for games
    • Innovative products for game development
    • Interface technologies
    • Case studies

    Event Home Page

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David Brin: Comments on 2012 PREPRINT The Craft of Intelligence 1.52

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2012 PREPRINT FOR COMMENT: The Craft of Intelligence

A few thoughts:

1) You should make clear the difference between three time domains.  in the short and immediate term, members of the Professional Protector Caste (PPC) have many and diverse needs for tactical secrecy, from police stake-outs of criminals to confidential de-briefings of defectors, to clandestine military or intelligence operations.   Critics are right to worry about the human-nature tendency to use secrecy to cover nefarious activities, or to simply evade accountability for errors.  But this worry is substantially eased if tactical secrets carry time limits. Only the most sensitive matters should qualify for an inherently limited number of very long term or indefinite secret classifications and those should bear an actual financial cost to the agency in question, making it a rare and special recourse.

This would go hand in hand with the vital importance of the longer time scale.  Over the course of years and decades, one fact rises paramount above all others.  The western, “pax Americana” civilization approach to governance… with its emphasis on individual liberties and sovereignty, science, negotiation and mixed-competitive problem solving tools… is the only one that systematically benefits from a  general secular trend toward ever-increasing transparency and openness in the world. 

In sharp contrast, every rival system, from communism to islamic fundamentalism to Sino-mercantilist state capitalism, all suffer near-lethal allergic reactions to the application of light.

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Marcus Aurelius: Reagan Vs. Obama – Social Economics 101

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I posted this clip to help promote the informative documentary I WANT YOUR M Buy the full documentary at www.IWantYourMoney.net. It's also feature great in-depth interviews from economic experts and politicians including:

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Howard Rheingold: Your Child Will Be Fine – They Live in the Stream…

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Brown Alumni Magazine – Friending Your Child

“In November 2009, boyd traveled to New York City to deliver what she expected to be a major address at the Web 2.0 Expo, one of the year’s most important gatherings of Internet professionals. Her topic was what she terms “living in the stream,” or how not to drown in the flood of information that comes at us all the time. Teens, she believes, are especially good at this. The most web-savvy of them manage to stay open to all the digital stuff without having to process everything. They take what they can handle and remain untroubled that much may elude their grasp. It’s a kind of cyber-Zen. “The goal is . . . to be peripherally aware of information as it flows by, grabbing it at the right moment, when it is most relevant and valuable, entertaining or insightful,” she said at the Expo. “It is about a sense of alignment, of being aligned with information.” She talked about the high some Twitter users get “feeling as though they are living and breathing with the world around them, peripherally aware and in tune, adding content to the stream and grabbing it when appropriate.””

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Marcus Aurelius: Early Warning DoD Reductions in Force 6% to 50%

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Starting to see initial indications that at least one part of DoD is gearing up to cut anywhere from 6% to 50% of its workforce within the fairly near term, perhaps beginning as soon as 01 Oct.  Drivers could be generic deficit reduction, sequestration, and historic limitations on strength levels in certain types of organizations.  Expect it to be ugly — sprung at last minute, execute without finesse.)

Government Workers Are Unfairly Assailed

By Ted Kaufman, US Senator (DE)

Wilmington (DE) News Journal
April 8, 2012

We've heard a lot in the past couple of years, pro and con, about escalating CEO compensation, but it seems to me at least one argument in their defense has merit. It is important to pay enough to recruit and retain the best talent available in the highly competitive global marketplace.

What seems strange to me is that those who believe this is true, that you have to pay well to attract the best talent, usually don't accept the same argument when it comes to government employees.

One of the more dangerous consequences of the financial crisis is how governments at all levels are, in effect, cutting off their noses to spite
their faces. In the rush to balance their budgets, some are indiscriminately firing, freezing and cutting pay, and cutting pensions — too often impacting the people who actually make government work.

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