Core of U.S. Intelligence Functions to Focus on Support to Military Operations (SMO)

President Obama appears to have no interest in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) as a source of accurate information for decision making and policy formulation. John Brennan, his counter-terrorism chief and principal advisor on intelligence issues routinely circumvents the IC when the administration needs strategic intelligence to guide its national security deliberations.  During the last …

YouTube: Steele to Scowcroft at WW Center

Watch YouTube 1:53 comment Phi Beta Iota: As we contemplate the all too real likelihood that Leon Panetta lied to the President of the United States of America on behalf of the military-industrial complex, the urgency of effecting a Strategic Analytic Model capable of creating and assuring truth–creating public intelligence in the public interest–has never …

US Intelligence & Policy on China & Pakistan Lack Consistency & Common Sense (i.e. Integrity)

Right-Sizing the US Military–Doug Macgregor sparked some discussion out this way.  Combined with New Army Chief of Staff: Out of Touch? NEW: Blistering Bullshit Flag Waved from Afghanistan and so many other related posts at Phi Beta Iota, here are some “inconsistencies” that are obvious to all of us on this side of the world. …

U.S. Intelligence Community as Land of Make Believe

To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective.  Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken.  RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …