Search: leadership ethics + RECAP

ROBERT STEELE:  “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.”  For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.” 2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP Leadership ethics is a two part challenge.  Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often …

Richard Wright: Michael R. Davidson, CIA DO SIS (Ret), Comments on Steele & OSINT with Steele Response 2.1

UPDATE 2 Dec 2012:  Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …

NIGHTWATCH: Syria at Risk — Own the Consequences

Syria: On 29 November, the administration of Damascus’ airport cancelled all incoming and outgoing flights because rebel groups had cut the road from the airport to Damascus, for the first time. Syrian rebels also used shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADs) that were captured from Syrian forces to shoot down a government helicopter and a fixed …

Mini-Me: Petraeus as CIA Says Benghazi was Terrorist Attack — NSA Behind on Relevant Intercepts; DIA Not Being Allowed to Think, Zero HUMINT Sucks

Short Persistent URL:  http://tinyurl.com/Benghazi-Bathtub Huh? Petraeus tells Congress that Benghazi attack was terrorism By Karen DeYoung and Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post, Friday, November 16 Former CIA director David H. Petraeus told Congress on Friday that the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was clearly an act of terrorism, but he did not …

Mini-Me: Jane Harman at CIA? Over Many Dead Bodies + CIA RECAP

Huh? Jane Harman and Israeli Spying Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised by ALISON WEIR CounterPunch, November 14, 2012 It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy …