The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘Google Effect’ Raised Bar for Spies to ‘Produce Secret Intelligence’: Ex-UK Intelligence Chief The rise of the web and Google means that spies in the UK need to work really hard to produce genuinely secret intelligence, former director of the country’s intelligence agency has said. Former chief of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Sir David …
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A NEW INTELLIGENCE ORG ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEEDED, DSB SAYS The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB). The Director of National Intelligence should establish …
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CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found. Deja vu? Covert Operation WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation Phi Beta Iota: This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA’s mini-war college) analytic exercise but …
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Horse and Buggy Representation in the Space Age The representation aspect of our democracy is structured the way it is, primarily due to practical considerations: the unwieldiness of pure democracy. But since computer technology is changing that, the same philosophical arguments that were made for representative democracy can now legitimately be used for emergent democracy. …
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I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …
Open Source Center created at suggestion of the 9/11 Commission? Really? AP Exclusive: Who’s following you on Twitter or Facebook? Maybe CIA’s ‘vengeful librarians’ By Associated Press, Friday, November 4 Phi Beta Iota: Evidently AP does not do its homework and takes Doug Naquin’s crap at face value. The Open Source Center was not created at …
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Setting the Stage for Information-Sharing in the 21 st Century: Three Issues of Common Concern to DoD and the Rest of the World Robert D. Steele The more I read and talk to people as I work up for this the more I think it comes down to three issues:
