The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Joshua Rovner 5.0 out of 5 stars It Takes Two: Strategic Intelligence and National Security Policy, September 30, 2011 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) In the U.S., the relationship between strategic intelligence and the formulation of national security policies has been to say the least complex and …
Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Epilogue, the Capstone Work, September 26, 2011 I have been a fan of Ralph Peters for over fifteen years now, going back to the early 1990’s when the US Marine Corps was trying to get the Secretary of Defense (then Dick Cheney) to focus on most …
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Number of Security Clearances Soars September 20th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood The number of persons who held security clearances for access to classified information last year exceeded 4.2 million — far more than previously estimated — according to a new intelligence community report to Congress (pdf). The report, which was required by the FY2010 intelligence …
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This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars–A Nation-Changing Public Mind Opener of a Book,September 2, 2011 I generally take a very jaundiced view of books that emerge from Washington Post columns I have already read, but this book surprised, engages, and out-performs the columns by such a leap that …
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Glenn Greenwald busts the DHS profiteering scam. The decade’s biggest scam Glenn Greenwald Salon, 29 August 2011 EXTRACT: First, this wastefulness is seen as inefficient only if one falsely assumes that its real objective is to combat Terrorist threats. That is not the purpose of what the U.S. Government does. As Daniel Weeks explains today, the …
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Archive Cuba Project posts Four Volumes; calls for declassification of still secret Volume 5 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 355 Posted – August 15, 2011 By Peter Kornbluh For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh – 202/374-7281 or by email EXTRACT In perhaps the most important revelation of the entire official history, the CIA …
