The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Worthwhile, Not as Epic as I Hoped, But Still Tops August 27, 2010 Malcolm McDowell I’m watching this in the context of reading and reviewing twelve books on water before I leave Guatemala. Having read Marq de Villier’s book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource several years ago, and more recently The Water …
(COMMENT: Really too bad that individuals like this are entitled to Constitutional protections… If he in fact compromised assets, as I have read in open press, they will be lucky if all the Taliban does is shoot them.) Washington Post August 14, 2010 Pg. 2 Army Analyst Celebrated As Antiwar Hero Many rally to soldier’s …
How Twitter saved Kenya’s election Thu Aug 5, 2010 New York – Once again, social media has played a central role in a national election. During Kenya’s recent ballot initiative to adopt a new constitution, citizens used Twitter, along with Facebook and a new breed of monitoring technology, to help eliminate the voter intimidation, bombings, and deadly …
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** GAO ACCESS TO INTEL OBSTRUCTED BY 1988 OLC OPINION ** ETHICS OFFICE PUTS LIMITS ON CIA LOBBYING (2006) ** REPORT SEES SUCCESSES AND GAPS IN INFO SHARING Secrecy News Home (each item above linked directly) Phi Beta Iota: From an objective third-party stand-point, the US intelligence community appears to believe that it is above …
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Both a Tour of Substance, and an Eye Opener for Book People July 29, 2010 James McEnteer This is a 6 Star and Beyond book and is so categorized at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where one can browse all 1600+ of my non-fiction reviews sorted into 98 categories and easily found with …
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While the US watches another CNN story on rape, Latin America has been watching CNN Espanol where the Ambassador of Venezuela to the Organization of American States (OAS), has just delivered a phenomenally detailed, articulate, and persuasive denunciation of the US and its regional allies, particularly Colombia. Hugo Chavez has then come out, breaking relations …
CLAPPER: MILITARY INTEL BUDGET TO BE DISCLOSED The size of the annual budget for the Military Intelligence Program (MIP), which has been classified up to now, will be publicly disclosed, said Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., the nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence. He said that he had personally advocated and won …
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