The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATED to ADD USMC NIT 1991 & 3 articles. In 1991 the Marine Corps proposed a redirection of National Intelligence Topics (NIT) toward the Third World and Global Coverage. Here is what was proposed and refused, following upon General Al Gray’s article, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s“: Reference: USMC Proposed Alternative National Intelligence Topics …
Economic Recovery on Edge Lack of Contract Oversight Puts Billions At Risk Laurel Adams February 6th 2011 Center for Public Integrity EXTRACT: The GAO singled out the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as agencies with risky contractor oversight. The GAO also said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …
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We Could Have Stopped The Terror At Fort Hood Washington Post February 6, 2011 Pg. B1 By Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan M. Collins Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in the murders of 13 people and the attempted murders of 32 others in the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Tex., in November 2009, appears to …
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By GRAHAM BOWLEY The New York Times Published: Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 1:00 a.m. Computer hackers have repeatedly breached the systems of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York but did not penetrate the part of the system that handles trades, according to several law enforcement officials.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is not worth a doctorate. What is worth a doctorate is the ability to meld intelligence and policy-making into a coherent ethical whole. Reflexive practice and comprehensive design are also worth PhDs, both are integrated in principle into the PhD central to the new holistic public policy PhD. Here is one …
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Egypt: Exchanging a Dictator for a Torturer By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, Thu Feb. 3, 2011 8:30 AM PST As for Suleiman, he looks to be a nasty piece of work. Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation Max Ajl, Truthout, 03 February 2011 Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the …
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This is a classic, and it bears mention that the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution began in the US military. Here is the human in the loop essence that no computer can create. USDI and D/DIA have chosen to ignore their responsibility for OSINT despite General Tony Zinni’s clear cut statement that all that they …
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