Marcus Aurelius: Hackers to Attack Feds Over Manning?

Feds involved in Manning prosecution enter hackers’ crosshairs By Aliya Sternstein NextGov, 12/20/2011 A government-hired forensics specialist and an Army investigating officer could face online backlash from WikiLeaks supporters who are unhappy with this week’s prosecution of a U.S. soldier accused of releasing confidential government files to the anti-secrets website, a computer engineer affiliated with …

Marcus Aurelius: SecDef to McCain on Sequester + RECAP on DoD Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Invite your attention to pages 5 thru 7 of attached which outlines in very clear terms the likely FY 2013 and longer term impacts on the Department of Defense and the Joint Force of the impending sequester brought about by this week’s dereliction of duty on the part of the Senators and Representatives making up …

Reference (2010): Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – All Humans, All Minds, All the Time [PDF & Full Text Online]

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-HUMINT Below the line: full text for automated translation.  The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text …

DefDog: CIA Decides Who to Blow Up – Without Having Any Idea Who They Are…

Admission of the failure of Intelligence, and yet nobody is asking why? Does the CIA Even Know Who Its Drones Are Killing? During the Bush era, the agency helped imprison scores of innocents. In the Obama era, it decides who to blow up. Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic, 7 November 2011 Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld …

Chuck Spinney: From Algeria to Libya –Lessons Not Learned + USG CIA Web of Deceit in Arabia RECAP

The triumphalism in the US surrounding the liquidation of Qadaffi may be short lived.  That is because most Americans do not appreciate how the legacy of anti-colonialism shapes the contemporary cultural DNA in North Africa or how influential that legacy has been in shaping the revolts of what is now called the Arab Spring.  There …