Steven Aftergood: Report on Congressional Oversight of Intelligence 2011-2012

A LOOK BACK AT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF INTELLIGENCE, 2011-2012 Several nuggets of interest are presented in the latest biennial report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, summarizing the Committee’s oversight activities in the 112th Congress: *    The Director of National Intelligence abruptly cancelled a multi-year effort to establish a single consolidated data center for …

Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP

DOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget.  Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO’s newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding.  In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion …

NIGHTWATCH Plus: North Korea — US B-52 Follies, NK Threatens US Bases in Pacific, Crashes SK Networks

B-52’s & NK Counter-Threat In Show of Force, US Bomber Trains Over S. Korea North Korea: B-52 flights an ‘unpardonable provocation’ North Korea threatens US Pacific bases over B-52 flights NK Cyber-Attack on SK?  [Israel also suspect] South Korean TV networks and banks suffer computer crashes after suspected cyber-attack from the North NIGHTWATCH North Korea: …

Paul Craig Roberts: Iraq Invasion at 10 Years — The legacy of “the war on terror” is the death of liberty.

March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The US Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has …

Reference: DNI Global Threat Testimony 2013

2013-03-12 DNI to SSCI Threat Assessment HIGHLIGHTS: Recognizes how quickly and radically the world — and our threat environment — are changing. “This environment is demanding reevaluations of the way we do business, expanding our analytic envelope, and altering the vocabulary of intellignece.  Threats are more diverse, interconnected, and viral than at any other time …