The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Cost-Savings Fantasy David Isenberg Huffington Post, 9/15/2011 Sometimes it is difficult to decide what to write about in the world of private military and security contracting issues, as there are usually a few different stories in the news on any given day that are relevant. Today, however, I don’t have that problem as there …
PRINT VERSION (Memorandum to SSCI & HPSCI with Attached Post) 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 new normal, era persistent conflict. A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans live in an era of endless war Gregg Jaffe Washington Post, September 5, 2011, p. 1 Video: The attacks of September 11, 2001 forced Americans to reevaluate their views on the nation’s security. A decade later, is the country stronger and better …
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: US at Permanent “War” + War RECAP”
EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …
All prior RECAPs plus Series CLOSED below the line. Updated 2 August 2013.
There are numerous misleading and misinformed assertions being made about the defense spending parts of the debt deal. The White House’s “fact sheet” asserts a $350 billion savings in the “base defense budget.” The $350 billion in defense savings that the White House declares apparently uses a different “baseline” (basis of comparison) and pretends that a …
Continue reading “Winslow Wheeler: Defense Cuts, Defense Flim-Flam”
This book remains the single definitive reference on the Smart Nation Act as developed by Robert Steele in support of Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02). As pointed out in Hamilton Bean’s recently published book, No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of US Intelligence the Open Source Agency (OSA) has become the subject of …
