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DefDog: Nation’s Top Cops Slam US Intelligence

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, DHS, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement
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Failure, across the board…..implications of this for domestic security abound…..where has all the money gone?

Report: Nation's Top Cops Say U.S. Counterterror Effort Is Lacking

Ten years after 9/11, top cops in the nation's biggest cities feel there
are still significant gaps in the intelligence and analysis they receive
about terrorism, even as the homegrown terror threat looms larger.

A survey of intelligence commanders from America's 56 biggest cities conducted by the Homeland Security Policy Institute found the police chiefs believe the nation's intelligence enterprise is less robust than it could be, and that 62 percent of the chiefs felt this lack left them “unable to develop a complete understanding of their local threat.”

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Read full report.

Phi Beta Iota:  The “top cops” are great people, they just do not understand that the terror threat is fradulent and that the homeland security industrial complex is working precisely as intended, wasting hundreds of billions on fraudulent dysfunctional white and white-collar employment while channeling hundreds of billions in unearned profits to the homeland security industrial complex.

See Also:

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence

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David Isenberg: Jim Clapper Claims Transformation — Robert Steele Comments on Each Misrepresentation

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Ethics, Hill Letters & Testimony, IO Impotency
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PRINT VERSION (Memorandum to SSCI & HPSCI with Attached Post)

David Isenberg

SHORT URL FOR THIS SPECIFIC POST:

http://tinyurl.com/Clapper-Steele

For information.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

How 9/11 Transformed the Intelligence Community

It's no longer about ‘need to know.' Our guiding principle is ‘responsibility to share.'

By James R. Clapper

It has been a decade since our nation suffered the greatest strategic surprise on American soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the aftermath of September 11, as the country sought to understand how such a complex attack could go undetected, much attention was focused on the intelligence community. Pundits, scholars, commentators and others quickly labeled 9/11 an intelligence failure.

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Phi Beta Iota:  General Clapper means well, but his Op Ed is utterly disingenous and completely out of touch with reality.  Below the line is a safety copy of his Op Ed with inserted commentary.

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John Robb: Hollow States & Crisis of Capitalism

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Tuesday, 06 September 2011

HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM

Had fun with this post.  Working on getting the thinking on this right.  Tough to do.

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Hollow, bankrupt states and crisis of capitalism is not a “dystopian future” if it is actually happening now. With almost hourly updates.

I coined the term, “hollow state” back in 2007.  The idea derived from what I was seeing develop due to open source warfare and primary loyalties.  Here's a run down on what it means:

The modern nation-state is in a secular decline, made inevitable by the rise of a global market system. Even developed nations, like the US, are not immune to this process. The decline is at first gradual and then accelerates until it reaches a final end-point: a hollow state. The hollow state has the trappings of a modern nation-state (“leaders”, membership in international organizations, regulations, laws, and a bureaucracy) but it lacks any of the legitimacy, services, and control of its historical counter-part. It is merely a shell that has some influence over the spoils of the economy. The real power rests in the hands of corporations and criminal/guerrilla groups that vie with each other for control of sectors of wealth production. For the individual living within this state, life goes on, but it is debased in a myriad of ways.  The shift from a marginally functional nation-state in manageable decline to a hollow state often comes suddenly, through a financial crisis.

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Patrick Meier: OpenStreetMap Micro-Tasking Imagery

11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Geospatial, Hacking, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence, Real Time, Threats, United Nations & NGOs
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OpenStreetMap’s New Micro-Tasking Platform for Satellite Imagery Tracing

September 7, 2011

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s (HOT) response to Haiti remains one of the most remarkable examples of what’s possible when volunteers, open source software and open data intersect. When the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12th, 2010, the Google Map of downtown Port-au-Prince was simply too incomplete to be used for humanitarian response. Within days, however, several hundred volunteers from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) commu-nity used satellite imagery to trace roads, shelters, and other features to create the most detailed map of Haiti ever created.

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See other Patrick Meier contributions at Phi Beta Iota.

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Penguin: CIA’s Metamorphis Into the Drone Machine

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Deeds of War
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Who, Me?

If you build it, they will come….

CIA's Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs

Gareth Porter

The World News, 6 September 2011

EXTRACT:

The shift in the CIA mission's has been reflected in the spectacular growth of its Counter-terrorism Center (CTC) from 300 employees in September 2001 to about 2,000 people today – 10 percent of the agency's entire workforce, according to the Post report.

The agency's analytical branch, which had been previously devoted entirely to providing intelligence assessments for policymakers, has been profoundly affected.

More than one-third of the personnel in the agency's analytical branch are now engaged wholly or primarily in providing support to CIA operations, according to senior agency officials cited by the Post. And nearly two-thirds of those are analysing data used by the CTC drone war staff to make decisions on targeting.

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Robert Steele: NO LABELS & Americans Elect Fraudulent

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, InfoOps (IO), IO Impotency, Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda
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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Our various editors have been receiving emails from people we all deeply respect.  Below is my response on behalf of the community we represent, but strictly my personal interpretation and cautionary note.  Below was provided in email form to NO LABELS and to the circle being Moon-eized by NO LABELS.

NO LABELS and Americans Elect are both fraudulent

Folks, I have no doubt about the generally good intentions of Schultz and others, but NO LABELS is a fraud, as is Americans Elect.

Below provide some background.  Those of us who have been attentive have exposed the manipulative nature of these two entities, as well as their complete lack of transparency.  The staffers fronting for these two organizations are well-intentioned but witless of their being used, just as the Tea Party rank and file are witless of the Koch brothers financial campaign that puts the booboise in front.

NO LABELS Rolling Update CLOSED

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Koko: China’s Spilled Secrets–A Tipping Point

02 China, 10 Security, Advanced Cyber/IO, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
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Koko Signs:  Secrecy–when it is pervasive–cannot be micro-managed.  As governments decline in legitimacy, and personal technologies become more pervasive than the instruments of secrecy, a tipping point is reached.  We're there.

Op-Ed

China's spilled secrets

A remarkable YouTube video shows how hard it is to maintain control in a wired world.

By David WiseLos Angeles Times, September 6, 2011

Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan of the People's Liberation Army, in what he apparently thought was an internal briefing, revealed half a dozen cases of Chinese officials who had spied for Britain, the United States and other countries. Somehow, the video of his sensational disclosures leaked out. Clips of his hours-long talk appeared on at least two Chinese websites, Youku.com and Tudou.com, but were quickly removed by government censors.

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Phi Beta Iota:  Colin Gray teaches us in Modern Strategy that time is the one thing that cannot be purchased nor replaced.  The USA has blown a quarter century in its continuing corrupt quest for secrecy and its exploitation of secrecy and other information pathologies to further programs that are neither needed nor affordable.  America, like China, is at a tipping point.  The ability of the few to impose secrecy against the interests of the many is now done–expanding the Open Source revolution must be our highest priority, to include a year of paid retraining for every person now unemployed and every contractor about to become unemployed.