The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
EDIT of 5 Dec 2010 to add commentaries by various others. Op-Ed Columnist The Fragile Community By DAVID BROOKS Published: November 29, 2010 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, had moved 37 times by the time he reached his 14th birthday. His mother didn’t enroll him in the local schools because, as Raffi Khatchadourian wrote …
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** GAO ROLE IN INTEL OVERSIGHT TO BE DETERMINED Phi Beta Iota: The Constitution is clear on the role of Congress, and the Executive does not get to pick and choose which of the activities funded by Congress on behalf of We the People will receive fiscal oversight. The position of the Administration is unconstitutional. …
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** CONFRONTING OVERCLASSIFICATION In a new article at ForeignPolicy.com, I [Steven Aftergood] take a critical look at the current policy landscape, including the newly enacted Reducing Over-classification Act and the pending Fundamental Classification Guidance Review. See “Telling Secrets,” October 15. See Also: Review: C3I–Issues of Command and Control with this quote: “Everybody who’s a real …
PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form. Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …
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STATE SECRETS VS. THE RULE OF LAW The inherent tension between the state secrets privilege and the rule of law reached the breaking point last week when an appeals court dismissed the claims of several persons who said they were illegally transported and tortured through a CIA “extraordinary rendition” program. They would not be permitted …
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U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks WikiLeaks release: March 15, 2010 Phi Beta Iota: Click on the title to read their description of the SECRET/NOFORN document entitled Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, Or Terrorist Groups? dated 18 March 2008, evidently out of the U.S. Army. The document is no longer …
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(accountable)… GAO ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE IN DISPUTE The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers, was discussed in the Washington Post’s Top …
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