The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
6 Threats, 6 Changes, & A Brave New World: Intel Chief Vickers WASHINGTON: There’s no one thing that keeps the Pentagon’s chief of intelligence up at night. There’s half-a-dozen things — terrorism, cybersecurity, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China — but Mike Vickers has a six-point plan to counter them.
Below is superb piece of reportage by Marisa Taylor of the Washington McClatchy bureau. By a meticulous compilation of facts, Ms. Taylor has painted a detailed portrait of how this homeostatic control system protects normalcy in bureaucratic cultures. The only point I would disagree with is her characterization of this system as being “broken.” To my thinking, …
The Tragedy of the American Military The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence OpEdNews, 23 December 2014 In 1989, as a former spy for the CIA who became the second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps Intelligence, I ghost-wrote an article for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s.” This was the first article to distinguish between the conventional …
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A Form of Moral Paralysis Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting Henry Giroux CounterPunch, Weekend Edition December 12-14, 2014 EXTRACT
U_8th Annual SMA Conference 2014 Final-1 Panel 2, Damron–Big_Data_Open_Source_EUCOM Panel 5, IARPA OSI brief Oct 2014 Panel 5, Neuro Big Data GIORDANO final OCT 2014 Final Survey Results The Other Stuff (Less Noteworthy)
20 key findings about CIA interrogations Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings: 1 “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” 2 “rested …
