The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals By R. Jeffrey Smith and Aaron Mehta | Center for Public Integrity, 5 May 2012 The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken …
My analysis of DOD’s latest “30 year” (not really) Aviation Plan is running at Time’s Battleland Blog at http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/01/the-pentagons-million-dollar-aviation-plan/, and below. In my judgment, the overriding revelation in this document is of the incompetence and disingenuousness of the bureaucracy in DOD that wrote it. If you think documents like this, costing over $1 million to produce, add …
Sibel Edomonds Finally Wins Sibel Edmonds’ new book, Classified Woman, is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence. The experiences she recounts resemble K.’s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasantness and humanity. I’ve read a million reviews of nonfiction books about our government that …
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Chapter 12 David Isenberg Huffington Post, 29 April 2012 After ten years of operation by private military and security (PMSC) contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq, what ethical lessons should we draw from their use? Namely, that private sector contracting has become an integral part of modern international operations, and in Afghanistan and Iraq contracting has …
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The growth of social media poses a dilemma for security and law enforcement agencies. On the one hand, social media could provide a new form of intelligence – SOCMINT – that could contribute decisively to keeping the public safe. On the other, national security is dependent on public understanding and support for the measures being …
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Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …
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Certainly worth a read. As time goes by, but only retrospectively, long after everyone has retired or died, accountability in terms of cost versus gain will eventually come to the fore. nsa-operation-regal Phi Beta Iota: There are two forms of accountability, neither of which is achievable today. The first is as mentioned above, cost-benefit analysis. …
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