Journal: ClimateGate, Copenhagen, Integrity

Climategate: Science Is Dying  (WS) The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State’s Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition. …

Journal: Multinational Operations 101

Italian Troops Denied Access To Intelligence Reports, Minister Says Richard Owen  TimesOnline (UK) October 20, 2009 Italy is denied full access to intelligence assessments in Afghanistan, a restriction that affects its troops’ ability to operate safely and hampers allied co-ordination, the Italian Foreign Minister said yesterday. The lack of co-ordination and pooled intelligence between Nato …

Journal: US IC Re-Discovers the Davies J-Curve

15,000 Affected By Intelligence Community Server Shutdown Atlantic POLITICS Oct 8 2009, 9:53 am Marc Ambinder EXTRACT: A CIA analyst who works on open source projects with state and local law enforcement officials said that uGov provided the only secure way to provide them with critical homeland security information. Several Defense Intelligence Agency employees wrote …

Journal: Director of National Intelligence Reverses Progress–Time to Rethink Everything

Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion The Atlantic POLITICS Marc Ambinder Oct 6 2009 The intelligence community’s innovative uGov e-mail domain, one of its earliest efforts at cross-agency collaboration, will be shut down because of security concerns, government officials said.  The decision, announced internally last Friday to the hundreds of analysts who use …