The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Anyone who believes we are winning the War on Terror doesn’t understand the goals of AQ. They wanted us to be afraid and to spend our money, both of which the government is doing in spades…..one really has to ask, then, who is winning? Is high security backfiring in U.S.? By Richard Engel, NBC News …
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the very few legitimate international events focusing on Open Source Intelligence with integrity. Highly recommended. Intelligence & Security Informatics Including Open Source Intelligence Athens, Greece, September 12-14, 2011 http://www.eisic.org, http://www.eisic.eu Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society ——————— Call for Participants ——————— Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) …
DoD major commands have serious staffs that try to do the right thing. The same cannot be said for White House staffers or the intelligence community staffs promoted to their maximum level of incompetence. Reading between the lines of the below article, it’s possible to see a national security decision-making process that is to close …
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Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an interregnum, between “rule by secrecy” and lies from power as the norm, and a very ugly baby Web 4.0 in which bottom-up truth struggles to emerge. We will have a great deal of baby poop to deal with, but over time, public intelligence in the public interest …
Terrorists To Protest Organizers: Lessons Learned From The Demise Of bin Laden and The Future Of U.S. National Security Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is a very ably crafted press release from the Project for National Security Reform (PNSR) led by Jim Locher and Dennis Blair, long-time champions of inter-agency reform or “Beyond Goldwater-Nicols.” This is a …
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I would suspect that a number of countries hung up on this call……. U.S. Calls for Global Cybersecurity Strategy By HELENE COOPER, May 16, 2011 New York Times EXTRACT: The strategy calls for officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security to work with …
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Is it just me, or does it appear that we’re okay with selling our cyber-soul to China (and Russia), as long as we can also blow tens of billions on US firms pretending to do cyber-security? Report: Despite status as U.S. security threat, China’s Huawei partnering with Symantec East-Asia-Intel.com, April 27, 2011 The Chinese telecom …
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