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2013/08/242013/08/24

Marcus Aurelius: Conflicted About Ethics, Secrecy, & the Public Interest

COMMENTS: 1. This is one of more internally contradictory pieces I can remember reading; 2. Mark Bowden certainly knows a thing or three about perpetuating compromise of classified information since he’s done bunch of it; 3. Bowden harkens back to old saying, “.. there are good secrets, there are bad secrets, and there are non-secrets …

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2013/08/222013/08/22

2013 26 Oct DC OSS Society Donovan Award Dinner

Please join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society for the presentation of the William J. Donovan Award® to Admiral William H. McRaven USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2013. Prior to assuming command of USSOCOM in August 2011, Admiral McRaven served as commander of the Joint Special Operations …

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2013/08/202013/08/20

Berto Jongman: Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports

Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States. Poitras said the interrogations began after she began working on her documentary, “My Country, My Country,” …

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2013/08/102013/08/10

Milt Bearden: Don’t Be Spooked by Pakistan

Don’t Be Spooked by Pakistan A CIA veteran’s prescription for how the United States can get along with an ally it doesn’t trust. Milt Bearden is an author and former career CIA officer who during the 1980s managed the CIA’s covert assistance to the Afghan resistance to the Soviet occupation from neighboring Pakistan. He currently …

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2013/08/082013/08/08

NIGHTWATCH: Terrorist Threat Analytics 101 — US Has Neither Improved Capabilities Nor Learned Anything New Since 9/11

Terrorist Alert: Special Comment. It is always hazardous to comment on events without having had access to the underlying source material about them. This is especially true of threatening developments. Thus it is not possible to comment on the quality or accuracy of the information on which the current terrorist alert rests. What makes this …

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2013/07/302013/07/30

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Talent Gap Blamed on Management

Bad management drives talent from CIA, internal reports suggest Frustration with poor managers is costing the CIA some of its most talented staff, internal surveys and former officers say. By Ken Dilanian Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2013 WASHINGTON — For the Central Intelligence Agency, he was a catch: an American citizen who had grown …

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2013/07/132013/07/13

Berto Jongman: New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile + Cabal / Conspiracy Meta-RECAP

New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile Dr. Kevin Barrett PressTV, 13 July 2013 Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events. In short, …

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