DefDog: Senate Benghazi Report Slams State, White House & Pentagon But Still Covering Up…Seven Missing Charges Itemized by Phi Beta Iota

CIA gets a free pass for dereliction on multiple fronts.  Noteworthy: Neither State nor Africa Command had any idea of the size and scope of the CIA arms smuggling operation based in Benghazi.  Also noteworthy that NSA has nothing at all on the attack in the days leading up to it or during the attack.  …

SchwartzReport: Science & Technology Education Critical

STEM Is the Key to Stronger Education Stephen M. Coan Huffington Post, 20 December 2012 Technology and engineering, both critical dimensions of our global economy and society, require mastery in science and advanced math. The good news: STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) occupations are expected to grow 17 percent in 2008-2018, versus 9.8 percent …

Search: osint manual

Handbook is the term that we use, and there are many handbooks.  The middle column is our total directory.  See: Handbooks (64) Analysis (13) C4/JOE/Software (4) HUMINT (11) Law Enforcement (12) Military (19) OSINT Generic (17) Stabilization (19) Threats/Topical (13) UN/NGO (19) See Also Prior Searches on OSINT (links, models, etcetera):

Reflections on the US Military — Redirection Essential — and a Prerequisite to Creating a 450-Ship Navy, a Long-Haul Air Force, and an Air-Liftable Army + Sanity RECAP

Telling the truth to those who have replaced intelligence with ideology and integrity with loyalty to something other than their Republic is most difficult and more often than not will get you fired, because those without integrity tend to be promoted in corrupt systems, and they see clearly the threat to their world-view — and …

2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods

Citation: Robert David STEELE Vivas, “The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods,” Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog (20 December 2012). Part I: 2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence 2.0 This is Part II …

Thomas Briggs: Comments on the US Secret Super Cloud — Dead Since 1995 — With Two Thoughts from Robert Steele

Thomas Leo Briggs is a retired CIA operations officer with 3 years military experience in US Army military police, 3 years as a Special Agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration and 26 years in the CIA.  He tried to make use of computer capabilities to aid and assist humint operations in a variety of ways …

Graphic: Integrated Intelligence Product Families

Document:  Integrated Intelligence Product Families This is an updated variation of the chart first created for the Marine Corps Intelligence Center in 1990, as published in 1991 MCG Intelligence Support for Expeditionary Planners.  This is a de facto top-level definition of a global intelligence cloud such as we should be building, perhaps in conjunction with …